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Related: About this forumArmed children for Chavez in Venezuela?
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatches/globalpost-blogs/que-pasa/photos-armed-children-barrio-chavez-venezuelaMore from the hemisphere's greatest democracy.
Photographs of young children brandishing assault rifles in front of a mural of an armed Jesus Christ taken in a Caracas barrio have caused outrage in Venezuela.
The pictures appear to have been taken in the 23 de enero barrio, a Chávez stronghold in the west of the capital city. With their faces covered in revolutionary scarves, three children all aged under ten sit with the weapons, while a woman looks on.
The Facebook group where the pictures originally appeared is run by La Piedrita, a so-called collective, one of a number of militias based in the slums alleged by critics to be armed by the Venezuelan government.
another wider angle shot showing the children in front of Jesus Christ holding an assault weapon.
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Armed children for Chavez in Venezuela? (Original Post)
Bacchus4.0
Aug 2012
OP
the story is from the beginning of this year so its just a bit dated but I don't know
Bacchus4.0
Aug 2012
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Enrique
(27,461 posts)1. that mural deserves a closeup
Bacchus4.0
(6,837 posts)2. I didn't notice the Virgin Mary, Baby Jesus, and assault rifle until now n/t
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MADem
(135,425 posts)3. It looks like the Virgin Mary is packin' heat, too....
joshcryer
(62,276 posts)4. Aren't these old pictures?
I mean really old, like several years.
Bacchus4.0
(6,837 posts)5. the story is from the beginning of this year so its just a bit dated but I don't know
about the photos themselves.
joshcryer
(62,276 posts)6. Ooh, OK, maybe I thought they were older than they are.
Thanks for clearing that up.
Roverticus
(74 posts)7. Gives new meaning to that guerrillas song...woops, I mean Gorillaz