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Venezuela: 17th Anniversary of Caracazo

Written byDavid Sasaki
Posted 28 February 2006 4:00 GMT

Oil Wars remembers the tragic massacre which took place 17 years ago today when “the government of Carlos Andres Perez sent the army into the streets to put down, with bullets, the huge popular protests against his stringent economic package which involved increasing fuel and transport prices.”

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