Venezuela crackdown deemed worst political repression in years

Friday, April 19, 2013

CARACAS, Venezuela -- National Guard troops beat dozens of opposition supporters for refusing to accept a government-certified electoral victory of Hugo Chavez's heir, a leading human rights lawyer said Thursday in what he called Venezuela's worst political repression in six years.

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