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Against War on Syria

Imperialism, WarSyria, VenezuelaCommentary

Nicolás Maduro is the President of Venezuela.  Translation by Yoshie Furuhashi (@yoshiefuruhashi | yoshie.furuhashi [at] gmail.com).



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