1 million swarm Caracas roads to demand Chavez's resignation
OK, kids, I don't know about all y'all, but if a million people were gathered in one place demanding my head, I would be SO far gone you'd never know I'd even been there in the first place. I'd find a country with no extradition treaty, and hop the first plane (or anything else) I could find.
CARACAS, Venezuela -- Opponents of President Hugo Chavez piloted motor boats around oil tankers moored off the Venezuelan coast to show support for strikers on board in a new demonstration today, hours after hundreds of thousands of people marched through the capital demanding the president step down.
Dozens of boats pulled up around two tankers on lake Maracaibo in western Venezuela, while people on shore gathered in support waving red, yellow and blue Venezuelan flags.
A two-week-old nationwide strike has crippled Venezuela's vital oil industry, and the tankers stalled offshore for days have been a symbol of the opposition's drive to remove Chavez. The government replaced dissident captains on the striking ships last week, but the tankers still have not moved and the situation on board remains unclear.
The seaborne demonstration came after the opposition held its biggest rally yet Saturday night, when as many as 1 million people clogged a main highway in Caracas, many shouting, "Chavez get out!" Along the march route, protesters filled bridges, overpasses and parks, waving giant Venezuelan flags and blowing whistles.
Nope, you definitely wouldn't have to tell me twice....
