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Cuando ellos eran obreros se defendían con paros, hoy son todos piqueteros y están en el desamparo.
When they were workers they could go on strike, today they're all picketeers and have no form of protection.
Veo que los piqueteros han dejado de caminar, para que puedan ver La historia de esta noche.
I see the pickets have stopped walking, so they can watch tonight's story.
Acá estamos los sectores populares, y es lógico que los sectores populares estemos con los piqueteros.
These are the popular sectors and it's only natural we should be with the picketeers.
¿Es cierto que usted detuvo algunos piqueteros como una medida preventiva?
Is it true that you detained some picketers as a preventative measure?
También veo quejas aquí del señor Chávez que los pesticidas han sido rociado en algunos de sus piqueteros.
I also see complaints here from Mr. Chavez that pesticides have been sprayed on some of his picketers.
Vasitos conjugo, para darle a los piqueteros.
Preparing glasses ofjuice to give out to the picketeers.
Pensé en conseguir piqueteros, pero decidí hacer algo más importante.
I thought about getting some picketers, but then I decided to do something bigger.
La operación comienza con un grupo para-policial disfrazado de piquetero, que destroza vidrieras y vehículos.
The operation begins with a group of policemen disguised as picketeers, who smash shopwindows and cars.
Sólo me habían escupido dos o tres piqueteros.
I made it into the lobby, merely spat on by two or three picketers.
Pregunta si me costó encontrar la dirección (invento un conflicto de taxistas y piqueteros para justificar mi demora).
He asks if I had any trouble finding the building; I invent a showdown between taxi drivers and picketers to explain my late arrival.
Los piqueteros empezaron a alterarse, nerviosos, procuraron reagruparse, intentaron fanfarronear, pero sus protestas se vieron ahogadas en medio de una feroz algarabía policial.
The picketers gusted in fluster, tried to regroup, tried to bluster, but their complaints were drowned out by ferocious cop noise.
Con ese y otros argumentos, acabó por consentir el profesor de Derecho Penal y se encaminaron juntos, pasando por la casa de gobierno donde se desplazaba todavía la columna de los piqueteros.
With that and more argument, the Professor of Criminal Law finally agreed, and they walked in the summer evening past the State House, where the picket line still moved.
También ésta era una experiencia nueva para muchos de los piqueteros: poetas, escritores, abogados, pequeños comerciantes, ingenieros y pintores que habían vivido toda su vida en paz y en una enorme seguridad, súbitamente se encontraban golpeados y maltratados y encarcelados como vulgares criminales;
This too was a new experience for many of those on the picket line: poets, writers, lawyers, small business men and engineers and painters who had lived all their lives in peace and enormous security, suddenly found themselves being handled and pushed and crowded like common criminals, their security gone and shattered, the law which had so long enfolded them protectingly, now a weapon of murderous anger turned against them.
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