Have you ever heard of anything more macabre? Dozens of life-size , lovingly constructed cardboard skeletons have appeared all over Caracas, on overpasses, on lampposts, on bridges, over highways. Miguel has a photo of the freakish spectre here.

The dozens of hanging skeletons are a protest, something from a mysterious youth group called Cambio, which says it is protesting Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez’s casual murders of young people without punishment across the country.

It’s also a legacy of Chavez’s willingness to shoot demonstrators, something that has damped protest rallies, this knowledge that one execution by Chavez goons will be carried out every time a group of people take to the streets. As well as his laws proposed to throw people in jail for banging on pots and pans.

Now, protests have gone underground – and taken mysterious and eerie forms – such as this skeleton protest, which castroites have attempted to smear as poison sabotage. The skeleton makers and the people who look at the skeletons say they are not fooled.

Read the whole strange thing here.