Die Neue Zeit
13th April 2008, 01:11
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gRdvb5zZxqQgWOxqABCDy7z4xsbwD9003IT80
Across town on Friday, about 50 opposition sympathizers accused the government of pressuring prosecutors to keep behind bars 11 police officers accused of spearheading the coup.
"Venezuelans shouldn't be celebrating today, they should remember the injustices the state has been committing," said Yajaira Forero, the wife of jailed police commissioner Lazaro Forero.
Groups also held small anti-Chavez demonstrations outside Venezuela, including in Mexico City, the Colombian capital of Bogota and in Florida, which has seen increasing immigration from Venezuela in recent years.
In Miami, protester Maria Luisa Vicentini recalled marching toward the presidential palace that day in 2002 and blamed pro-Chavez forces for the violence.
http://suncoastpinellas.tbo.com/content/2008/apr/11/foes-mark-day-coup-briefly-deposed-chavez/
On the sixth anniversary of the coup in Venezuela that removed President Hugo Chavez from power for 48 hours, Chavez opponents from across the Bay area protested the controversial leader at high noon today.
Mobilized by a Facebook alert, Lucia Pineda and her mother, Maria, came from Clearwater. They held aloft a sign that portrayed Chavez with diabolical horns on his head.
"I don't agree with Chavez. I think he's having a negative influence on a lot of countries," said Maria Pineda, 47, who left Venezuela with her two children seven months ago. She said she once worked for the National Assembly of Venezuela but was forced out by threats from the Chavez regime.
She and her daughter held a sign aloft to show motorists at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Himes Avenue. It read, in Spanish: "Castro-Chavez: Diabolical Duo."
Across town on Friday, about 50 opposition sympathizers accused the government of pressuring prosecutors to keep behind bars 11 police officers accused of spearheading the coup.
"Venezuelans shouldn't be celebrating today, they should remember the injustices the state has been committing," said Yajaira Forero, the wife of jailed police commissioner Lazaro Forero.
Groups also held small anti-Chavez demonstrations outside Venezuela, including in Mexico City, the Colombian capital of Bogota and in Florida, which has seen increasing immigration from Venezuela in recent years.
In Miami, protester Maria Luisa Vicentini recalled marching toward the presidential palace that day in 2002 and blamed pro-Chavez forces for the violence.
http://suncoastpinellas.tbo.com/content/2008/apr/11/foes-mark-day-coup-briefly-deposed-chavez/
On the sixth anniversary of the coup in Venezuela that removed President Hugo Chavez from power for 48 hours, Chavez opponents from across the Bay area protested the controversial leader at high noon today.
Mobilized by a Facebook alert, Lucia Pineda and her mother, Maria, came from Clearwater. They held aloft a sign that portrayed Chavez with diabolical horns on his head.
"I don't agree with Chavez. I think he's having a negative influence on a lot of countries," said Maria Pineda, 47, who left Venezuela with her two children seven months ago. She said she once worked for the National Assembly of Venezuela but was forced out by threats from the Chavez regime.
She and her daughter held a sign aloft to show motorists at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Himes Avenue. It read, in Spanish: "Castro-Chavez: Diabolical Duo."