As you might have heard on the news, Venezuela is on their 6th day of protest. These protests started in many states of the country on the 12th of February and haven't stopped since then, on the contrary more people have been joining and more cities are participating. Is my style to always have a small text and let my picture talk, but if you want to know what is really going in Venezuela, there is a great video which explains it very clear: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFS6cP9auDc. I am currently doing my internships in Caracas in a newspaper called El Universal and so I have been part of some of the protests. Sometimes I had my camera and other times I left my house with nothing but my ID. I hope you like the photos and that they inspire you to spread the news with your friends and family, because my country needs to be heard and is just getting harder and harder for us since the government is doing everything to keep us quiet. I am talking about TV channels not showing anything that has to with the opposition or framing them and making them look violent, newspapers not having paper to print full issues, journalists being attacked if they report the truth (leaving bad the government), and now they're interfering Twitter so we can't see photos and blocking users that show what really happens at the protests. This last one is terrible because is one of the few windows we have to see the truth... Anyways watch the video and see my pictures!
This first is from a protests organised by the print news outlets to complain the lack of paper and demand for this to change.
This was a small group of students at Caurimare, El Cafetal, protesting at night.
This is from a small protest of some members of El Universal and the protest was organised by some news agencies and the idea was to go in front of their own building and show their banners when the traffic light was red. The aim was to ask for the release of 3 journalists that were arrested.
This last group of photos is from the corner where one of the victims (Bassil) of the 12th of February was shot and later died. Some of my colleagues walked passed the place and saw a bouquet of flowers and a candle and took the initiative to bring more flowers, write messages with chalk, light candles and encourage people to do the same so Bassil would not be forgotten and to remind people where a hero fell down.
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