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Thousands of miners staged a violent two-week demonstration last September in Las Claritas, Venezuela, close to the Brazilian border. They blocked the border highway, burned trucks and threw rocks and Molotov cocktails at national-guard troops. Their main target was Crystallex, a Toronto-based company that since 2002 is said to have held the legal rights to Las Cristinas--the world's fifth largest gold mine, with 12.5 million oz. of proven reserves...
...gendarmes have weapons. The kids they face in the street have mostly stones and Molotov cocktails. It is a mismatch. But it's the cops who are the heavy underdogs--the cops and the France that the cops alone represent in those burning godforsaken ghettos where most Frenchmen dare...
...student riots brought down a government, and at times last week Paris seemed to be reliving those tumultuous days. Night after night, another set of embittered citizens turned their forgotten wastelands into a battleground. The skies burned red. Crowds of stone throwers clashed with police, while shadowed figures hurled Molotov cocktails at cars and buses. The rioters were mostly Arab or black, but they were also mostly French, born and bred in the neighborhoods they were setting ablaze. Their anger spread in an arc across northern Paris, just a few miles from the city's glittering heart, as one desolate...
...host all these countries. It's particularly not easy to host, perhaps, me." GEORGE W. BUSH, U.S. President, in a press conference in Mar del Plata, Argentina, site of a 34-nation Summit of the Americas, where anti-Iraq-war protesters, calling Bush a "fascist" and a "terrorist," threw Molotov cocktails and set a building on fire...
...vandalism did not stop there. At about 7 a.m. some 50 activists, wearing masks and armed with steel pipes, stormed into the Asakusabashi station in the center of Toyko's wholesale district. They threw Molotov cocktails, torching and seriously damaging the platform and the stationmaster's office...