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Hector Castillo, a photographer for the local newspaper El Mundo, was injured by rubber bullets that some soldiers fired into the air, Caracas Fire Chief Rodolfo Briceno said. Eighteen other people were treated for asphyxiation, he said. The park is one of eight security zones in Caracas as decreed by Chavez. Protests are banned in those areas unless authorized by the defense ministry. “All of this show of force is absurd,” said Henrique Capriles, the opposition mayor of an eastern Caracas district. “People are tired of being assaulted and repressed.” The military — purged of dissidents after a brief April coup — has supported Chavez during the strike, which has para lyzed the world’s fifth-largest oil exporter but has not rattled the president's resolve to stay in power. Troops have seized oil tankers, com mandeered gasoline trucks and locked striking workers out of oil installations. Top commanders have professed their loyalty to the government. Speaking in his weekly radio and tele vision address on Sunday. Chavez dis missed opponents as “fascists” manipulated by the media. He also dismissed Infrastructure Minister Eliecer Hurtado, a retired general, and replaced him with Diosdado Cabello, the current interior minister. Chavez did not explain the change or say who would head the interior ministry, which commands the federal and secret police forces. Venezuela’s main television stations are not broadcasting any commercials except opposition advertisements promoting the strike. Media owners say they have been pushed into this stance because Chavez incites followers to attack reporters. Chavez threatened to revoke the broad casting licenses of television and radio sta tions if they “continue with their irration insistence on destabilizing the country!)) supporting this fascist subversion.” Venezuela’s largest labor confederate business chamber and opposition pan;: began the strike Dec. 2 to demand tit Chavez resign and call early elections if!; loses a nonbinding referendum on his ml: The National Elections Council schei uled the referendum for Feb. 2 aftf accepting an opposition petition signed! 2 million people. Chavez says the vote would be uncoc- stitutional, and his supporters have chai lenged it in the Supreme Court. He va elected in 1Q98 and re-elected in 2000,®: his term ends in 2007. Venezuela’s cons: union allows a recall referendum halfw; through a president’s term — August. Chavez’s case. Opponents accuse the president ofmr ning roughshod over democratic institt lions and wrecking the economy with left ist policies. 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