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Prominent Venezuelan student leader Julio Soto, an outspoken critic of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and a member of the opposition party Copei, was killed Oct. 1 in Venezuela’s Maracaibo state. In what was almost certainly a targeted assassination, Soto was shot to death by multiple assailants while driving in his car with other student leaders. The attack appears to have been well-planned, as the shooters were able to pinpoint Soto’s location and take him out with very little collateral damage.

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