We are with Chavez: The Take-Over of Caracas

2012-10-06 · first published in Venezuelanalysis · 115 words

This was not a Socialist Resistance publication. marxsite was Phil Hearse’s own long-form site, run alongside the paper he helped edit. It is kept here with his agreement, recovered from the Internet Archive after the domain lapsed and was taken over by someone else; nothing here links to the address it now points at.

As credited on the page: “link to venezuelanalysis.com”

Only a fragment of this survives. It may have been a short link-and-comment post, which marxsite ran many of, or the opening of a longer piece cut off by the capture — from what remains there is no way to tell which.

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By NOSOTROS CON CHAVEZ

We were called on to come to Caracas to close what had been a long, exhausting and intense campaign. Chavez had asked us for 7 avenues; he had said that he wanted us to fill 7 avenues for the end of the campaign rally.

Being involved in this historical political process, we are clear that our lives are at stake, and so we mobilised. There were thousands, hundreds of thousands of us, on the country’s freeways; the majority of us in buses, many buses, and others in their own vehicles and motorbikes. We didn’t come to annoy anyone, but without intending to we still did. We brought Caracas to a standstill.

The capture this was recovered from