Venezuela Anti-Government Protests Lack Support from the Barrios [View all]

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Lisa Sullivan & Ryan Mallett-Outtrim report from Venezuela that the country's anti government protests are continuing with no end in sight but continue to lack appeal in low income neighborhoods - 46 min ago

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Ryan Mallett-Outtrim is an Australian journalist living in Merida, Venezuela. He is a staff writer for alternative news website Venezuelanalysis.com, and a regular contributor to Australia's Green Left Weekly. In recent years he has covered the democracy movement from Morocco, the ongoing struggle for self-determination in Western Sahara and progressive politics in Latin America.

Lisa Sullivan is the Latin America Coordinator for School of the Americas Watch, a nonviolent grassroots movement that works to stand in solidarity with the people of Latin America, to close the U.S. Army School of the Americas, and to change oppressive U.S. foreign policy that the SOA represents. Lisa has led SOA Watch delegations to 19 countries in Latin America, meeting with social movements and government leaders on issues of militarization, human rights and sovereignty, leading to the withdrawal of six countries from the SOA. Lisa has lived in Venezuela since 1982, and for 21 years was a Maryknoll Lay missioner, working as a community organizer in the western barrios of Barquisimeto where she raised her three children. She is co-founder of the Centro Cultural San Juan, an initiative that teaches Afro-Venezuelan music to youth in rural and urban areas of the state of Lara.

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