By Jaime Ortega.
Three people have died during demonstrations against opposition as students convened throughout Venezuela. The deaths report two in Caracas and a third in the municipality of Chacao, as confirmed Venezuela’s Attorney General Luisa Ortega Diaz. In addition there are 23 injuries and at least 25 arrested for complaining.
One is a pro-government protester, as indicated by the President of the National Assembly and leader of the military wing of the ruling party, Diosdado Cabello.
During the speech, Cabello reported the “murder of a member of the Bolivarian Revolution in Candelaria square”, about 200 meters from where opponents manifested. “You have been cruelly killed by fascism,” said Cabello.
Hundreds of opposition supporters against Chavez mobilized today in separate marches across the country under the Youth Day.
Capriles condemns violence
The opposition leader Henrique Capriles condemned the violence unleashed by the end of the march in Caracas and elsewhere in the country ensuring that these actions will not stain civic citizen protest.
“We condemn violence! Violence never be our way! Confident that the vast majority rejects and condemns it!”, Capriles said on social network Twitter at the end of a turbulent day of marches that ended with groups of hooded attacks against the Attorney General burning police cars.
“Our country is going through a tough crisis and now we have more violence than already exists! NO to violence!” Said the opposition leader, who attended the march to support college students who demanded changes in the country.
“Those who want real change and peace in Venezuela will not end up kidnapped by violent groups”, also said the governor of Miranda state (center), who was unmarked in the last days of the call from leaders like Leopoldo López and María Corina Machado to convert the day today into a demand for the removal from office of president Maduro.
Capriles said that “today we mobilized thousands to peacefully exercise their right to protest” and it is “unacceptable such show stained with violence”.
Maduro points to perpetrators
Nicolas Maduro condemned the violence shown from the protesters and said, “All the information indicates that the management comes directly from the perpetrators of this violence, but also indicates masterminds” Maduro said in a speech from the Aragua (north central) state mandatory broadcast radio and television.
The president expressed his repudiation of violence and asked to be alert to fight any attempt to destabilize his government. While defended his government with respects of civil rights and freedoms, he briskly instructed that all who leave without permission from the authorities should be immediately stopped. “The rejection of fascist violence, coup, these small groups (…) everyone alert, we do not trust, against those who are capable of anything,” he said.
“In Venezuela we are facing a Nazi-fascist resurgence and we will defeat you. There will be no coup in Venezuela, have absolute securit,” he said. He further stated that violent groups had prepared these disturbances to lead the country into a “war of dogs, to put our people against each other.”
“I call to peace, there will be no impunity,” he said while expressing support for research that the Attorney General will perform for those responsible for the atrocities, including the burning of several vehicles in the vicinity of the headquarters of the Audience Ministry in Caracas. “I have turned very clear instructions to support the prosecution. They are identified in video and photography all groups who exercised violence,” he added.
