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Wed 09 Sep 2010Hunger striker dies in Venezuela
A VENEZUELAN farmer has died after months on hunger strike in protest at the seizure of his farm in 2003 during a government land reform drive.
Franklin Brito suffered a heart attack in a military hospital in the capital Caracas on Monday night, according to family members. He had demanded that president Hugo Chávez compensate him for the seizure of his holding in the south of the country where he had grown yams and watermelons.
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