VENEZUELA

zmag/Guardian: Racist Rage Of The Caracas Elite
Venezuela's Embattled President Faces A Pinochet-style Opposition

"For the past year or more, Venezuela's upper and middle classes, opposed to Chavez's government, have protested in the wealthy new neighbourhoods of Caracas, while the poor (the vast majority of the city's population) have come from their shantytowns and demonstrated to defend "their" president."