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4. The people in the photo are students from the Central University of Venezuela

Fri May 5, 2017, 11:44 AM

May 2017

Unless you are saying the photo and/or caption is fake?

Here's the AFP article with that photo:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/more-protests-planned-venezuela-death-toll-reaches-32-064617164.html

What media source do you think gives a fairer picture of what's happening in Venezuela right now?

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These aren't "student protesters", they're nyabingi May 2017 #1

They look like students to me oberliner May 2017 #2

Their physical appearance is irrelevant... nyabingi May 2017 #3

The people in the photo are students from the Central University of Venezuela oberliner May 2017 #4

Pretty much all of the Western media sources nyabingi May 2017 #6

is there any part of Telesur's claims about what's going on that you reject? geek tragedy May 2017 #13

There is plenty to criticize about Maduro's nyabingi May 2017 #34

people are eating cats and dogs there. That explains what's going on there pretty damn well. geek tragedy May 2017 #52

Here's an article from TeleSur nyabingi May 2017 #8

LOL Telesur, nothing like Venezuelan state media--effectively owned by Maduro himself, for geek tragedy May 2017 #11

It's as "objective" as nyabingi May 2017 #23

It's less objective than Fox News, and is nothing but a mouthpiece for Little Nicky nt geek tragedy May 2017 #53

Really smart that Telesur doesn't allow comments on the articles snooper2 May 2017 #15

LOL! That's like recommending Volkischer Beobachter! Marengo May 2017 #17

Whom do you rely on for nyabingi May 2017 #24

You are demonstrating your total ignorance of how student COLGATE4 May 2017 #28

"if you lose at the ballot box, change the minds of your political opponents" geek tragedy May 2017 #5

Or if you're the right-wing opposition nyabingi May 2017 #7

I'm in favor of democracy and opposed to authoritarianism geek tragedy May 2017 #9

You are absolutely NOT in favor of democracy nyabingi May 2017 #25

So, do you support Maduro's failed attempt to putsch himself to absolute power? DetlefK May 2017 #31

Seeing as the National Assembly has the full backing of nyabingi May 2017 #36

Your idea for saving democracy is installing yourself as dictator??? DetlefK May 2017 #40

People who are trying to overthrow the legitimate government nyabingi May 2017 #51

"Democracy" is also not the President and Supreme Court launching a putsch against the parliament. DetlefK May 2017 #59

your opinion that the US is directing a regime change operation is not a fact anyone else geek tragedy May 2017 #54

"you support obvious efforts by the US to destroy it in Venezuela" EX500rider May 2017 #63

"the face of a very aggressive regime change" EX500rider May 2017 #64

Except the CIA isn't doing that here.. EX500rider May 2017 #10

The USAID and assorted NGO's nyabingi May 2017 #27

Sorry, all "gains" have long since disappeared... EX500rider May 2017 #62

Hmmm. I don't recall the CIA pulling off a coup in Argentina and installing Pinochet Zorro May 2017 #14

Sure, it was right after the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor! EX500rider May 2017 #16

The US did not give up after that. DetlefK May 2017 #33

Sorry, it was Chile (nt) nyabingi May 2017 #26

Cool I thought all of the Maduro supporters were gone! snooper2 May 2017 #12

The problem is they didn't lose at the ballot box - they won in 2015 & high court intervened. Yo_Mama May 2017 #22

Yes, their 2015 is their only significant victory since nyabingi May 2017 #37

"The OAS is a puppet organization that follows the orders the US gives them" EX500rider May 2017 #65

1. The opposition has WON at the ballot-box. 2. Maduro is using organized mobs. DetlefK May 2017 #30

Maduro enid602 May 2017 #35

Venezuelan Government vehicles running down protestors brooklynite May 2017 #18

What "protesters"? nyabingi May 2017 #29

Venezuelan police shoot naked, non-violent, fleeing protester in the back: DetlefK May 2017 #32

The Daily Beast? Haha nyabingi May 2017 #39

Okay, find me such a story. DetlefK May 2017 #42

That's just the thing, DetlefK nyabingi May 2017 #46

Silly conditions??? My conditions are perfectly reasonable!!! DetlefK May 2017 #58

So, are you claiming that incident didn't happen? Marengo May 2017 #55

The Venezualan "government" is going a fine job of destroying everything. Adrahil May 2017 #38

I guess you prefer right-wing totalitarianism? nyabingi May 2017 #41

They don't want to wait. That's why they started a petition for an earlier election. DetlefK May 2017 #44

So maybe Democrats should go out into the streets nyabingi May 2017 #47

If Trump manages to run the economy as badly into total collapse as Maduro... DetlefK May 2017 #57

It's not either or. Adrahil May 2017 #48

I don't necessarily support Maduro the person nyabingi May 2017 #50

Maduro's got to go if Venezuala is ever going to get better NobodyHere May 2017 #19

Yes, if "better" is the way it used to be nyabingi May 2017 #43

"Better" as in: Wages not destroyed by hyperinflation, stores selling food... DetlefK May 2017 #45

Well, how about the US government lift the sanctions nyabingi May 2017 #49

HAHAHAHAHA! Are you really pretending that corporations control EVERYTHING??? DetlefK May 2017 #60

And Maduro could stop with price controls christx30 May 2017 #61

"the sanctions they've imposed on Venezuela which restricts the importation of medical supplies" EX500rider May 2017 #66

There are no economic sanctions on Venezuela. hack89 May 2017 #68

"stop hoarding their goods to create artificial shortages (they've been busted doing this)" EX500rider May 2017 #69

Why do you present it as a binary opposition? Adrahil May 2017 #56

It seems right now Venezuala has NobodyHere May 2017 #67

Do Venezuelan Students No Longer Carry Arms? Wolf Frankula May 2017 #20

In 2012 the Government " secured " all arms held by civilians. oneshooter May 2017 #21