that there can be no workers and the ral strike in June briefly ement and in fact had Feral Ongania into a Vandor had Cur bono? The last few weeks has seen an intensification of all three fronts of Venezuela's seven-year-old Guerilla struggle. In the plains, in Apure State, a fierce battle led in which two soldiers were killed. In Falcon State, in the West, another group of Guerillas captured the village of Agualinda. And in the East there have been everal encounters, with unknown Government The secrecy surrounding these suggests may have been serious. ncrease of Guerilla activity represents Both Guerilla denounced the groups Pacification programme as a political trick, and added that the COPEI Government represented the exploiting classes, and as such was no dilferent from the hated Accion Democratica Government which had preceded it.
What finally exposed the Government was the situation the Universities. The Venezuelan student movement has been, for years. one of the most militant and uncompromising in the world. When I was in used to break up (and shoot up) the activities of the left. This has given rise to fears that armed groups of fascists may soon have the kind of free reign in Venezuela that they already have in Guatemala.
The result activities by the "pacifist" Government has been seven students shot dead in three months. In Merida, three students were killed two by the police, and one by COPEI civilian thugs.
But this brutality has rebounded against the governmenu The movement for Universit
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