Venezuelan hunger-striker dies after protesting Chavez
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A Venezuelan farmer on hunger strike for months in a protest against President Hugo Chavez's land nationalization policies died on Monday in a military hospital, his family said.
"Yes, he's dead," Franklin Brito's son, who has the same name as the farmer, told Reuters. The death of Brito, whose case had become a cause celebre for opposition parties and rights groups, came at a sensitive time as political passions rise before a Sept. 26 vote for Venezuela's parliament. (Reuters)
