Ideology and the death of a Bolivarian student on the bloody streets of Merida

Ideology and the death of a Bolivarian student on the bloody streets of Merida _DATESTRING Ushering in the coming elections for governors and mayors on November 23, 2008, the narrow streets of the Andean university town, Mérida, have become hot, belligerent and sanguinary again. Is this the ominous prelude to a bloody hot summer? Last week, student and police blood have already marked the coming CIA death trail of emerging guarimbas, of violent paramilitary onslaughts against the democratic government of President Hugo Chávez Frías. These student riots, which tend to spread nationally, have already claimed their first victim: a PSUV Bolivarian student, Douglas Rojas Jiménez, shot brain dead on the streets of Mérida. To bury the assassinated student today big marches are planned. More disturbances are expected for this week.... [read full story]