VENEZUELA: RIVAL DEMONSTRATORS CLASH OVER GOVERNMENT'S RADICAL REFORMS.

Record ID: 990367

  • Title: VENEZUELA: RIVAL DEMONSTRATORS CLASH OVER GOVERNMENT'S RADICAL REFORMS.
  • Date: 28th August 1999
  • Summary: CARACAS, VENEZUELA (AUGUST 27, 1999) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. GV: DEMONSTRATORS OUTSIDE CONGRESS CHANTING IN SPANISH: "THEY WILL NOT PASS." 0.06 2. SV: CARACAS' MAYOR, AND MEMBER OF THE OPPOSITION, ANTONIA LEDESMA, TRYING TO CALM DEMONSTRATORS (3 SHOTS) 0.21 3. CU: (SOUNDBITE)(Spanish)UNIDENTIFIED DEMONSTRATOR SAYING: "This is a government who has made the people hungry. This is a government where one million are unemployed. This is a government where in less than eight months, the number of people suffering from hunger has increased by 600,000. In other words, of those 600,000, plus one million that already existed, it's over two million people who at this moment are suffering the rigours of this bad government." 0.42 4. GV/PAN: WATERCANONS THROUGH THE STREETS 0.47 5. GV/ZOOM OUT: UNIDENTIFIED CONGRESSMEN JUMPING OVER FENCE OF CONGRESS 1.11 6. GV: PEOPLE RUNNING AS TEARGAS IS THROWN IN THE STREET (2 SHOTS0 1.27 (NIGHT VIEWS) 7. GV: ROW OF POLICE ON MOTORBIKES 1.35 8. GV: CONGRESSMAN SERGIO ACASTA AT WATER CANNON 1.40 9. MV: CONGRESSMAN SERGIO ACASTA SURROUNDED BY PEOPLE AND MEDIA 1.47 10. GV: TEARGAS AND RIOT POLICE IN THE STREET 1.53 11. GV: CONGRESSMAN AND CONGRESSWOMAN ENTERING CONGRESS 2.02 12. GV: RIOT POLICE WITH GAS MASKS 2.09 13. CU: (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) IGNACIO ARCOYA, MINISTER OF THE INTERIOR SAYING: "The situation is a stalemate because of a few congressmen who felt the need to act in a provocative manner calling this session and after a dialogue that we had with them, they insisted that they would suspend their acts but they refuse to negotiate." 2.37 14. SV: CHAVEZ SUPPORTERS OUTSIDE CONGRESS 2.43 15. CU: (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) ENRIQUE CAPRILE, VICE PRESIDENT OF CONGRESS SAYING: "It has never been said that there was a coup and I think this is not the moment for us to be giving off negative signals and that is a negative sign." 2.57 16. CU: (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) JULIO CASTILLO, SECOND PRESIDENT OF CONGRESS SAYING: "They say that we came to occupy the congress. The congressmen came here to read a statement. We came only to read a statement at the doors of congress." 3.10 17. GV: POLICE ON MOTORCYCLES 3.15 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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  • Location: CARACAS, VENEZUELA
  • Country: Venezuela
  • Reuters ID: LVA44U07P1Q6DWVZMLK4IH3KE1HM
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