"Operational freedom": there are already four dead in Venezuela and 230 wounded in clashes

Up to now, there have been four dead and 230 wounded who have left clashes between protesters and security forces in Venezuela during protests in recent days against the regime of President Chavez's leader Nicolás Maduro after the war. failure of the military uprising. The victims were shot dead.

Yosner Graterol, a 16-year-old boy who died at the dawn at the Maracay City Hospital, is one of the victims. He was shot in the right arm and lodged in the chest during a protest at Tuesday's protest in La Victoria.

Another victim is Yoifre Hernández Vásquez, a 15-year-old boy who died as a result of a gunshot wound that he received at a rally in Altamira, a middle-clbad neighborhood located in the city. 39, is from Caracas.

During this demonstration, Jurubith Rausseo García, 27, who died shortly after in a private clinic in the east of the capital, was also injured by a firearm.

Samuel Méndez, aged 24, was shot dead in La Victoria by two shots he received in the abdomen and spine during a police-ridden protest.

Between Tuesday and Wednesday, 230 wounded and 205 arrests were reported during demonstrations, according to information from Venezuelan humanitarian organizations: Social Conflict Observatory and Criminal Forum.

On Tuesday, the political crisis in Venezuela gained momentum with the release of the opposition leader, Leopoldo Lopez, as part of the "Liberty" operation, launched by the military forces that took place. Opposed to the Maduro diet. Then he showed up next to the self-proclaimed interim president Juan Guaidó, who forgave him.

López is the leader of the party of the popular will and has been under house arrest since July 2017 after being sentenced to more than 13 years in prison for inciting violence during protests held three years ago against the leader of the Chavez regime, in those who killed 43 people.

On the same Tuesday, the parades returned to the streets to demand the departure of Maduro from power, following the call for opposition to the protest. The demonstrations were severely repressed by forces loyal to Maduro.

During his last appearance, Maduro was shown with "loyal military" and warned, "The time has come to fight." He called on members of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces to give "an example to the world by defeating coup plotters who sell themselves in Washington dollars".

"Soldiers of the country, the time has come to fight, to give the example to history and the world and to tell Venezuela that there is a coherent, loyal, consistent, united armed force. like never before, "said Chavez State Chief.

He called for "facing treason, coup d'etat" and warned that "the order is given to the traitors to stop them, plotters of the coup d'état to reject them and to stop them also, as well as to united armed forces, cohesive under supreme command of laws and the Constitution ".

Source: TN

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