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Venezuelan Protestors Bare All

Dale Chong |
April 10, 2014 | 10:46 a.m. PDT

Executive Producer

(Vzlaenprogreso1/Twitter)
(Vzlaenprogreso1/Twitter)
Venezuelan university students have been showing quite the skin on Twitter over the past few days.

These photos, marked with the hashtag MejorDesnudosQue, or "better naked than" are part of a solidarity campaign sparked by the stripping and beating of a young college student in Caracas yesterday, according to PolicyMic.

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According to Al Jazeera, masked assailants entered the Central University of Venezueladuring a rally and began assaulting anti-government protestors.

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Students planned to march form the school but clashed with the riot police show were sent to stop them. 

Read the full story at PolicyMic.

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