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A safe zone or home base in the children's game Eres (a Venezuelan version of Tag; the name literally means You are it). It is a designated spot where a player is protected from being caught.
To rest or protect themselves, the players have a spot or a point used as a GUARIMBA (a post, a wall, or a tree trunk) where they cannot be touched by the person who is it as long as they are at that spot.
Automatically translated from Spanish
A safe zone or hideout where someone can take cover when they are being chased or attacked. (Originally referring to a home base in children's games, it is now used for street barricades and protest sanctuaries in Venezuela).
One's own home, a friend's house: a retaining wall.
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A violent street protest or blockade involving barricades and social disorder (in Venezuela, it specifically refers to organized roadblocks used to paralyze a city).
We are going to set up a guarimba. If they do not pay us, we will start a guarimba right here at the entrance.
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Anarchic public disorder or street protests involving roadblocks and civil disobedience (in Venezuela, it refers to opposition-led barricades used to block traffic and confront authorities).
The guarimba that took place in Caracas at the start of this year, 2014.
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A street barricade or defensive refuge meant to protect protesters, like a trench in war, used to exercise the right to demonstrate against an authoritarian regime (in Venezuela, this specifically refers to neighborhood-based resistance points during anti-government protests).
Students are protesting to demand the tyrant's resignation and the return of national sovereignty. Civil society, affected by the tyrant's chaos and rampant corruption, demands the restoration of civil rights through non-violent street actions. The population is defenseless and unarmed, while the dictator controls a group of indoctrinated killers called colectivos who are mostly thugs, social outcasts, and criminals. The tyranny the Venezuelan people live under is the best example of this: just look at the guarimba.
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