As Jesse Jackson visits Venezuela’s strongman Hugo Chavez at the presidential palace this weekend, with timing that suggests a plan to denounce what he calls the ‘Rumsfeld-Robertson connection’, outside in the streets - violent protests have engulfed Caracas in a sign of Chavez’s tightening grip on power.

El Universal has the story in Spanish here and Globovision has the story in Spanish here. Miguel explains it in English for us here.

Sources: El Universal, Globovision, Union Radio, Venevision, Reuters and El Nacional.

Reuters has the story here.

UPDATE: Aleksander Boyd points out media errors in some of the captioning in a short, strong essay here.

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