Venezuela 1989 The Caracazo Protests
https://youtu.be/n1kKu5jU9zs Venezuela 1989 The Caracazo Protests Mike Lanchin: Hello and thank you for downloading Witness with me Mike Lanchin, and today we take you back to February of 1989 when Venezuela was hit by days of protests and rioting sparked by government austerity measures. In the crackdown that followed security forces killed more than 300 people; many of them innocent bystanders. I’ve been speaking to one woman inadvertently caught up in the violence. [Shouting, screaming and the sounds of smashing windows and violence] Its early evening on February the 27 th 1989, protestors and looters are out on the streets of the Venezuelan capital Caracas. It’s the first day of a wave of disturbances that have spread across the country. Ordinary Venezuelans many of them residents of the poorest neighbourhoods that surround the capital are venting their anger at a raft of new government economic measures. [Archive report] Reports speak of ...