Anti-castro skeletons in Caracas

Now this is WEIRD. Someone in Venezuela, and no one knows who, has taken the time to lovingly create 70 cardboard skeletons, and somehow hang them around in public places, like highway overpasses, through Caracas. Can you imagine the work to do it? Miguel has a photo of the weird spectacle here.

A note from a mysterious group says it's protesting Venezuela's castroization, which includes the killing of the young, with the symbol of death, a skeleton. And putting it all over Caracas.

Venezuelans of course are not free to protest in the streets as in the past. Not because of the laws, but because one of them, someone, any of them, gets beat up or shot dead at each event. To terrify. Carlos Alberto Montaner has cited the grotesque dynamic of 'kill someone, anyone' here. So now we have macabre protests like this.

The Chavista police claim that two of their cops touched them, and were 'poisoned.' The group that did it denies it, and has issued a communique saying that this is a castro security agents' ploy to discredit the opposition. El Universal reports that the group, which calls itself Cambio has said:

"the standard attempt by the Cuban intelligence at neutralizing and discrediting a way of democratic, non-violent and original fight against tyranny and as another episode in the strategy to cause fear and suffocate any protesting voice."

I think it's so weird and evocative. It's the insanity of living in a communist tyranny - it eventually drives people mad. That's why we are now seeing this mysterious skeleton protest from Venezuela's young.

Posted by Mora at September 9, 2005 09:22 AM

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