Sometime around Monday, Venezuelans began marching essentially twice a day. Once whenever the Democratic Coordinator calls for a march, and once again at night in a new form of pot-banging and march at the same time, which started spontaneusly and now has become a daily event at 8 PM. Essentially, rather than simply start banging pots out of your window, people have begun taking to the streets and getting together to walk around their neighborhoods. Dozens of marches sprout nightly around the city at 8 PM, some of the lasting well beyond 10 PM in a remarkable display of protest.
Pro-Chavez forces attempted in mid-week to short-circuit this type of protest by doing their own pot-banging at 7 PM, but they have not been able to gather the momentum, neither in size nor in the intensity, of the protest, most of them ending well beyond the strat of the opposition protest.
Last night, the oppossition decided to stage a demonstration of support in front of the Globovision TV station, not only as a way of showing their appreciation towards the station, but also as a way of stopping the violent Chavista circles from taking over the outside of the station as they had done the two previous nights. The gathering was a resounding success despite the initial fears of those that went to it, that the Bolivarian circles might show up, but they never did. The demonstration was peaceful, festive and some of the anchormen and anchorwomen came out to join the crowd. Supposedly similar demosntrations of support to the media will be done in the next few days in order to “recover the streets” as one opposition leader called it.
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