Learning to cherish independent institutions
Quico says: Last week, the pro-Chávez Comando Alexis Vives marched onto the Central University campus and trashed the School of Journalism, spray-painting anti-RCTV and pro-government slogans all over the façade and the benches out front.
This week, opposition students held a “protest” that consisted in whitewashing the building, and painting over the graffiti on the benches.
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