Pictures from the last march in Venezuela
Monday 8, March 2004

Lots of pictures are appearing but I still do not find one that I particulalry like. At least there is this one that illustrates waht I mentioned. The spot where that picture is taken is at least half a mile from where I stopped, not been able to push further as the Libertador avenue was tightly packed.

Yahoo news has a very complete section of pics, and of the repression this week.

Accounting is estimated at over 500 000 marchers but I think that even this number is a little low. The circuits tended to follow narrow streets and many parallel streets were taken by overflowing marchers. I did take the Libertador from the start myself and just in that mile there might have been 40 to 50 000 marchers unaccounted for in the official measuring points.

But the point is not whether there were 500 K or 700 K or the million. the point is that in spite of all the electoral cheating, menaces from Chavez, scare tactics and what not, until starting actual repression last week, this is the biggest protest march this year so far and one of the biggest ones since "trouble" started early 2002. Even if Chavez manages to pull electoral fraud he will never, never, be able to rule Venezuela in a normal way.