[lbo-talk] it's over - now the destruction really begins

[Patrick Bond]

Doug Henwood wrote:
> ... I was responding to Patrick's evocation of IMF riots in the 
> so-called South. They weren't really part of any political movement 
> that threatened anything. They lasted a few days and were either 
> repressed or just burned themselves out. 

I agree with you. But the most severe ever, as far as I know, was in 
Venezuela in early 1989, in which more than 700 rioters from the barrios 
were killed. The incident radicalised a certain young army officer.
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