Videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=SvUB3KZTIUw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=BuwuvoMmHXw For Spanish go to http://chacaopsuvista.blogspot.com/2013/02/el-caracazo-despertar-de-un-pueblo.html?spref=tw "El Caracazo" Awakening of a People *On February 27, 1989, a great outcry against the government's neoliberal measures Carlos Andres Perez (CAP), which meant greater poverty and misery for the people of Venezuela, ended when thousands of men and women were killed by repression military and police cast a pall over many families* . <http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gKvkb5oRXag/URP3GszLp3I/AAAAAAAAArM/eB-vt9xDsdo/s1600/Nueva+imagen+%2818%29.png> But that day was only the trigger for a contained situation. Since 1970, poverty rates in the country had grown alarmingly. The rural workforce was reduced to 10 percent in just three years and 600,000 people migrated to the cities. Informal workers increased from 34.4 percent in 1980 to 53 percent in 1989. The industrial working class fell to the total or partial privatization of sectors such as telecommunications, ports, oil, grooming and airlines. The huge debt with international banks turned us into a society of slaves. So in 1989, during the second presidency of CAP, is announced to the Venezuelan people that would implement a program of neoliberal economic measures. As recommended by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The package, which included the privatization of public enterprises, elimination of subsidies and protection from the state to private companies and the promotion of decentralization, also included an increase in the price of basic services such as electricity and gasoline. In desperation, the people took to the streets to protest against such measures and CAP, in Council of Ministers ordered the National Guard and the Army to suppress the riots. Also declared a state of emergency under Article 240 of the Constitution of 1961, which were suspended some constitutional guarantees for 10 days. When falling dusk of Tuesday 28 curfew began bloodiest history of Venezuela. The mass grave was called FEVER witness and accuser of this slaughter immeasurable. The Caracazo was not only a response to the measures imposed by the IMF and respected by the Perez government, but also the popular expression had no way of channeling their discontent with widespread corruption and the crisis created by the governments of the Fourth Republic . <http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-o6fbX_JM3ZU/URP3z3lSaTI/AAAAAAAAArU/q_UZ53mO7vQ/s1600/Nueva+imagen+%2864%29.bmp> <http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-zFn__TfpFl0/URP37w6XvrI/AAAAAAAAArc/2aMbXBuePSo/s1600/Nueva+imagen+%2862%29.bmp> <http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-N13WGbcaIS4/URP3-uVSc6I/AAAAAAAAArk/vl3N3rFzJPk/s1600/Nueva+imagen+%2863%29.bmp> <http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-dctHJ0484a4/URP4E6JRz9I/AAAAAAAAArs/mgf1WspQDIY/s1600/Nueva+imagen+%2865%29.bmp> <http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-RUdQRoVu_Jo/URP4UHKsGXI/AAAAAAAAAr0/S9E7xxidDqY/s1600/Nueva+imagen+%2866%29.bmp> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:[email protected]?subject=laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive1: <http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive2: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
