Venezuela’s National Electoral Council (CNE) announced that the auditing and setup of the country’s 35,000 voting centers was finished on Friday, and the Venezuelan Armed Forces announced that 140,000 soldiers will guarantee voters’ safety as they go to the polls today.

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Following on from the brutal killing of workers at the Mitsubishi plant in Venezuela, yesterday three workers were shot at as they drove through the town of Barcelona. Fortunately they were not injured, but we must step up the campaign of solidarity to stop these attacks.

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Around 40 peopled gathered together at Bolivar Hall London last night to attend a meeting, organised by Hands Off Venezuela and the Bolivia Solidarity Campaign, to celebrate and discuss the recent constitutional victory in Bolivia, and the ten-year anniversary of the Venezuelan revolution.

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We reproduce here an article from Red Pepper's Venezuela blog that criticises Francisco Toro's concept of democracy. Contrary to Francisco Toro, who claims that Venezuela suffers from "Savage democracy", Samuel Grove considers the democratic record of the last 10 years of revolution to be something to celebrate.

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Jorge Martin, international secretary of the Hands Off Venezuela campaign was interviewed on the Canadian radio program Latin Waves about Venezuela and the Global Economic Crisis.

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On Tuesday industrial workers, workers from the service sector and from the state sector, together with members of dozens of communal councils, marched through the streets of Barcelona to condemn the killing of two Mitsubishi workers the week before.

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We publish here two videos of the funeral for the murdered Mitsubishi workers outside the factory with about 2000 people present.

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To celebrate 10 years in government President Hugo Chavez declared February 2 a public holiday, seeing thousands rallying and celebrating around the country, and shops, schools, and banks closed.

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