Venezuela: Chavez closing rally fills 7 avenues
While the world's media was looking the other way, a huge sea of red filled the whole of central Caracas last night in the closing rally of the election campaign of Hugo Chávez.
While the world's media was looking the other way, a huge sea of red filled the whole of central Caracas last night in the closing rally of the election campaign of Hugo Chávez.
Jorge Martín reporting about protests outside the Spanish parliament yesterday.
The anger of the workers against the latest cuts proposed by the right wing Portuguese government has also reached different layers of the armed forces and police officers. For the last 2 years different soldiers' and military officers' unions had already expressed their opposition to austerity cuts which affect them directly as state employees and had organised several protests. Now, a strongly worded statement of the National Association of Armed Forces Officers (AOFA) expressed its support for the September 15 demonstrations and warned that "if it depends on us, the army will never, ever ... be a tool of repression of their own citizens."
Here's a video produced by SovietFilms about the arrival of the striking miners in Madrid on July 10, the demonstration in support of their demands on July 11 and the police charges against it. The video is in Spanish with English subtitles (press CC for captions).
Friday, July 13, was the second day of widespread walk outs by civil servants and public sector workers against the latest austerity package of the right wing Popular Party government of Mariano Rajoy. More protests are being called for this evening outside PP offices in all regions.