The S.O. went today to inspect the surrounding areas of Los Proceres, the ceremonial avenue that leads to the military installations where Chavez body is on display He could not access the inner sanctum even for some photos only: for that you need to make the whole line, that starts from the bus station of La Bandera and snakes through Los Proceres until the end. So he told me he will try tomorrow morning early. Meanwhile we get quite a few scenes....
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| We start with a "panoramic" of three pictures of the line, about half a mile still from Chavez. Note that it is a dry, dry season and the trees have few leaves to offer shade. |
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| After they pass that gate, people are sort of free to roam until they reach another area where the proper line to see Chavez forms. The picture above is the decorated marching grounds of the Venezuelan army, the half a mile or so left to walk to see Chavez. |
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| The "triumphal" monolith bedecked with the flag, and on the left a giant screen TV which transmits all the activities around the casket, that is, electoral campaign. there are several of these large screens. |
The lines after that entry are supposedly more formal but the pictures below are like those for any marches in Venezuela, with the appropriate sellers of junk. Chavez did not escape that. By the way, the weak grass during the dry season has been quite trampled beyond recovery, I was told.
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| bolivarian souvenirs in red. |
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| No respect for anything, a tank is simply something to climb on. It is of course empty, just there for display with its first graffiti already on it. |
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| A lot of red but a lot of organized groups from the hinterlands. Care to guess who paid for the trips? |
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| Selling flags from the truck. |
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| Some slogans, of course. We do not know yet for sure what slogans are inside.... |
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| T shirts, of course....... |
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| One more large screen for one more line view. |
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| These are old murals from the hated 4th republic where the "punto fijo tyranny" then paid for leftist artists to decorate murals. Ask yourself today if the current regime would pay for dissidence art....... |
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| And for the end, a seller of framed recent pictures of Chavez ordeal....... |
Es que todo eso se cuenta y no se cree.......
