Venezuela: Rural workers march for Chavez

Syndicated from Green Left Weekly on Sun, 2012-08-05

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<div class="glw-authors">By <span class="glwnews-article-location"><a href="/taxonomy/term/3930">Rachael Boothroyd</a></span></div><p>Thousands of peasant workers took to the streets of Caracas on July 26 to hand over a list of programmatic suggestions to the government and show their support for Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.</p>
<p>More than 2000 peasant activists from across 18 of Venezuela’s states took part in the march, as well as other members of the national popular movement who attended in solidarity.</p>
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