“How many concerts are they going to stage?”: Rival factions plot Venezuela shows
The pro-regime Hands Off Venezuela concert will compete with Richard Branson's Venezuela Aid Live, as the latter is attacked by a characteristically fiery Roger Waters
News By | 19 February 2019
There will be rival benefit concerts in Venezuela this week, with British entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson and the internationally unrecognised Venezuelan government respectively organising competing anti- and pro-regime events.
Sir Richard – whose music industry ventures include Virgin Records, the UK’s V Festival and the new Virgin Fest in the US – last week announced a Live Aid-style event, Venezuela Aid Live, to raise US$100 million funds for victims of the country’s worsening political and economic crisis.
Branson, reportedly a…
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