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Farmer-turned-hunger striker dies in Venezuela (AP)

August 31st, 2010

In this photo taken Sept. 27, 2009, Venezuelan farmer Franklin Brito holds a hunger strike outside the offices of the Organization of American States (OEA) in Caracas, Venezuela. Brito, a farmer who held repeated hunger strikes in a land dispute with Venezuela's government, died in a military hospital on Aug. 31, 2010, igniting finger-pointing between critics of President Hugo Chavez and the government. (AP Photo/Orinoquiaphoto, Jimmy Villalta)AP - A farmer who held repeated hunger strikes in a land dispute with Venezuela’s government has died in a military hospital where he had been taken against his will.


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