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Latin America

GatoGordo

(2,412 posts) Fri Apr 27, 2018, 10:02 AM Apr 2018

Is it too much to ask for running water? [View all]

Link to tweet

“I just need you to avoid clashing with the guards, if you're going to protest there” - National Guard official in front of Miraflores Palace

“We don’t want cistern trucks here, we want running water!” “Running water! Running water!” - protesters and the "cacerolazo", a uniquely Latin American protest of El Pueblo.

The NG promised cistern trucks... though the water typically is river water at best and only suited for flushing toilets.

The wheels are coming off the wagon.

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Is it too much to ask for running water? [View all] GatoGordo Apr 2018 OP

Maduro cares! He really, really does! GatoGordo Apr 2018 #1