Venezuela looks to S.American leaders as toll hits 20

[Comrade Grumpy]

70. Here's two more dead: A National Guardsman and one of those motorcycle guys.

http://venezuelanalysis.com/news/10457

Mérida, 7th March 2014 (Venezuelanalysis.com) – A motorcyclist and a National Guard officer have been shot dead on an opposition street barricade as unrest in Venezuela continues.

The killings occurred yesterday when a group of motorbike-taxi workers tried to clear an opposition barricade on a street in the middle class Los Ruices district of Caracas. While doing so, they were attacked by a group of residents from nearby buildings, who threw rocks and other objects at the motorcyclists.

The motorcyclists responded by throwing objects back at the residents, creating a “confused melee”, Reuters reported. According to authorities and local press reports, when the National Guard arrived to control the situation, shots from adjacent buildings were fired, killing a National Guard officer, Acner Isaac López (25), and a moto-taxi worker, José Gregorio Amaris (24).

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The Venezuela Analysis report cites Reuters.

I like how they call the colectivos "motorbike-taxi workers."

I looked at a bunch of Venezuela Anonymous, but I didn't scroll through enough posts to find those pages you mentioned.

It looks to me like there is endemic street violence going on. People blockading streets, burning shit, using giant slingshots against the cops, and plenty of heavy handed cop action. People are getting killed on both sides.