Yesterday's march apparently went off rather quietly.
From VHeadlines:
The opposition has been telephone-bugged admitting that it has less than 1.9 million verifiable signatures (where 2.4 million are required) and the CNE is spitting out wrongly filled-in signature forms like it was in the confetti business rather than there to check and audit the legal requirements. To say that the opposition's signature campaign (last November/December) is something of a damp squib would be lighting the blue touch-paper to current contention on the streets of Caracas ... and it's equally explosive.
Agence France Press (AFP) reporters on the ground in Caracas used their own eyes to report scant attendance at the opposition rallies on Saturday, but of course Globovision did its usual cute thing with camera angles and stock footage to have its viewers believe there was a massive attendance ... in one report we're told there was in excess of a quarter million anti-Chavistas on the streets! Pictures taken by Venezuelan state news agency VENPRES tell a corroborating tale to AFP's tally, but CNN (presumably taking a feed from Channel 33 or RCTV) manages to show National Guard (GN) personnel carriers parked at the end of Avenida Bolivar as "proof" that thousands of (unseen) opposition marchers needed to be protected from marauding hordes of Bolivarian Circle Chavistas in the demo that never was.
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