Iranian authorities stated that the content of these containers were tractor parts bound for their factory in Venezuela's Bolivar state.

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"We came to support our president, " said Marbelys Pena, a resident of Venezuela's Bolivar state who came to Caracas for Thursday's rally.

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As STRATFOR has explained previously, however, rainfall would have to occur in the upriver areas of southern Venezuela, along the border of Bolivar state and Brazil, for the Guri dam reservoir to rise.

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One of the most prominent and saddest cases is that of Venezuelan biologist and farmer, Franklin Brito, whose torment began in 2002 when he dared to submit a project to solve a problem in Sucre Municipality, Bolivar state.

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