Venezuela: four dead, while Maduro shows "strength" with the official troops

The deaths that followed the protests against Nicolás Maduro of the last two days in Venezuela after the failure of the military uprising amounted to four deaths, human rights organizations reported Thursday.

Yosner Graterol, 16, died Thursday morning in a hospital in Maracay, as a result of bleeding, after being hit by a firearm that had entered his right arm before going to the police station. At a protest Tuesday in the central city of La Victoria, Dr. Jhander Delgado, a resident of this city who witnessed the injury of the teenager, told the Associated Press.

In turn, the Venezuelan Observatory of Social Conflict has confirmed the death of 14-year-old Yoifre Hernández Vásquez, who died from a gunshot wound that he received during a demonstration against the government. was held the day before in the urbanization of Altamira, a middle-clbad neighborhood in the east of the capital. During the above-mentioned event, 27-year-old Jurubith Rausseo García, who died shortly after in a private clinic in the east of the capital, was also wounded by a firearm.

On April 30, in the city of La Victoria, opposition Samuel Méndez, 24, died from two gunshot wounds he sustained in the abdomen and spine during a protest repressed by the police.

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.

For her part, Venezuelan journalist Gregoria Diaz said on Twitter that a 16-year-old who was shot in the Tuesday demonstration in La Victoria, Aragua, died on Thursday, but this has not yet been confirmed. .