Friday, June 08, 2007

I forgot to mention: maybe some of you have heard about the demonstrations going on here in Vzla. Well, Chavez decided to shut down an "opposition" TV station called RCTV and people are demonstrating cause they see the shutting down of RCTV as an act against the freedom of press. As far as I´ve understood, the shutting down of RCTV was not against the law, but still it is clear that the station was shut down only because it does not support Chavez so people are not too happy about that. There have been demonstrations in Caracas and Maracaibo. One evening our classes were canceled because of a demo. Mayra called from Ruge as Anna and I where walking out the door, saying that theer are no classes and that we have to stay indoors the rest of the evening cause it might be dangerous to go out. Nothing dramatic happened that evening and even though the students (the students seem to be the ones organizing all the demos) have continued demonstrating there has not been any more talk about the situation being dangerous.

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