Fantastic, march/rally/demonstration, whatever you want to call it. Hundreds of thousands took to the streets in six separate marches from all sections of Caracas to a location near the National Electoral Council. While it had been expected that we would accompany the petition with the signatures to ask for a recall referendum, this was not to be as the signatures were handed in very early in the morning. This had an incredible effect as it dissipated many fears of violence among those that later went to the rally. The fear was that Chavez’ supporters would interfere with the march as happened last November when tear gas and shots were used by the police as the Chavistas attempted to hijack and stop the truck carrying the signatures. But it was not to be as a non-descript refrigerated truck was used at 6:30 AM to take the petitions to the CNE. Chavista thug Lina Ron was outraged by the deception, calling on live TV for the Chavistas to take to the streets as they were cheated by the opposition. She even accused the opposition of handing in the signatures last night, which would make them illegal. Meanwhile, Vice-President Rangel actually went on TV and praised the peaceful day while Hugo Chavez who was in Argentina, said the signatures were fake as if the Feb. 2nd. massive petition drive never took place. Chavez even said that it was just the oligarchs using signatures from their banks to fraudulently fill in the petition. Chavez even said at the end that the opposition would be defeated anyway if they managed to get the referendum to take place. If he is so sure, why does he oppose the referendum so much? After all, if he won, it would give his “revolution” a mandate that he never had, since he never said that he would do what he is doing right now as President.
Above left, as close to the front of the rally as I was able to get, I took similar pictures looking the other way. On the right is a picture taken of one of the marches from the builiding where I work. I waited for over fifty minutes before joining the march and you can see how dense it is. More pictures in Pictures, Posters and Venezuelan Beauty inside.
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