MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Order today at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
By Mary Beth Sheridan @ WashingtonPost.com, March 9, 6:04 pm
CARACAS, Venezuela — Thousands of people streamed to anti-government demonstrations in Caracas and other cities Saturday, despite a heavy police presence and a new round of blackouts that closed the metro in the capital and shut down social media.
In Caracas, police officers in black helmets blocked streets and attempted to stop marchers headed to Avenida Victoria, a downtown boulevard where opposition leader Juan Guaidó held a rally. Nonetheless, thousands swarmed the site to cheer Guaidó, whom the United States and more than 50 other countries have recognized as Venezuela’s interim president. “Freedom! Freedom!” chanted the crowd, which stretched for eight blocks.
“We are so tired of everything happening here,” said Leidy Medina, 31, a nurse who said she walked two hours to reach the demonstration. On top of all the other effects of a severe economic crisis, she noted, the country had been paralyzed since Thursday by a blackout. “So many kids are dying in hospitals” without electricity, she said [....]
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