Students will remain in the streets despite military repression

"There is mourning here, instead of carnival!" cried out on Thursday a crowd attending a rally convened by the student movement. However, it was not a cry consistent with the time; also, the promise to join students was voiced.

"No carnival for anybody here; we will continue in the streets. On Sunday, we will walk up to Brión square (eastern Caracas)," exclaimed Juan Requesens, the president of the Federation of Student Councils, Central University of Venezuela (UCV). Earlier, he had said once again that students will keep up demonstrating as long as all students are released and justice is administered.

Requesens sent President Nicolás Maduro a message: "You have our numbers. Dialogue means facts; release our classmates."

Source: El; Universal
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Students to demonstrate in Venezuela on March 2nd

Referring to the National Peace Conference hosted by the Venezuelan government and held on Wednesday evening, the students said such dialogue should be held with the people in the streets.

A mass demonstration led by students and citizens took place on Thursday in east Caracas to reject violence, student detentions and torture, and shortage in Venezuela.
Student leader Juan Requesens convened a rally next Sunday, in different areas of Caracas.


Referring to the National Peace Conference hosted by the Venezuelan government and held on Wednesday evening, the students said such dialogue should be held with the people in the streets and oriented to solve the problems of the country, with the government listening to its people.

Source: El Universal

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Venezuelan FM meets with his Brazilian counterpart

The meeting was held on Thursday around midnight. It was held as a part of a regional tour during which Venezuelan Foreign Minister Elías Jaua attempts to elaborate on the Venezuelan crisis and gain support to discuss the issue at the Union of South American Nations rather than the Organization of American States. Jaua's last stopover will be Suriname.

Venezuelan Foreign Minister Elías Jaua and his Brazilian counterpart, Luiz Alberto Figueiredo, gathered on Thursday around midnight as part of Jaua's regional tour intended to explain the government's stance on the conflict Venezuela is currently facing.

Official sources told EFE that Jaua arrived by midnight and met with Figueiredo for about an hour.

The press had not access to the meeting, yet the Brazilian Foreign Ministry said information would be disclosed on Friday.

Venezuelan sources have commented that Jaua would probably held a press conference on Friday in Brasilia before leaving for Suriname, his last stopover.

Source: El Universal
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Venezuelan authorities charge at demonstrators in east Caracas

A tree was hit by fire during the demonstration. Locals tried to put out the flames to prevent the tree from falling.

With tear gas and pellets, officers from the Bolivarian National Guard (GNB) and the Bolivarian National Police (PNB) broke up a demonstration on Tuesday in Altamira, east Caracas.

Students demonstrating gathered in the area early in the afternoon at La Francia Square. By building barricades, demonstrators closed access in nearby avenues.


A tree was hit by fire during the demonstration. Locals tried to put out the flames to prevent the tree from falling.

Source: El Universal

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European Commission "alarmed" about detention of students in Venezuela

The Commission rejected the detention of dissenters, and called for the end of violence in Venezuela.

The European Commission on Thursday called for the immediate end of violence in Venezuela and said it was alarmed about the detention of students and opposition leaders during demonstrations in recent weeks.


"We reject all acts of violence and intolerance from all sides," remarked Algirdas Semeta, a representative of the European Commission before the European Parliament. He added that "nobody should be detained for exercising their rights to freedom of speech and assembly," AFP reported.

Source: El Universal
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Maduro: Students' reply to the call for dialogue was aggressive

"We will designate a flexible, promoting team of open doors, not at all sectarian or closed"

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro chaired on Friday a roundtable within the framework of the Peace Conference, an initiative implemented last Wednesday. He reasserted his call to the student movement for rapport.

"I called upon the right-wing student movement. (...) I received the reply of some of them yesterday (Thursday). It is a very aggressive, violent wording, more than before. The answer was very bad; they have bad advisors; who knows? I keep on calling upon them in whatever form they want to attend." Maduro noted that students could meet with him, with Vice-President Jorge Arreaza, or in the context of the Peace Conference.

During the meeting, Maduro appointed a promotion and coordination team "for things not to remain in the air, not to be lost." He announced the set up of peace conferences in the province. "It will be as ample as possible in the states of Táchira, Mérida and Miranda."

Maduro praised the message to Venezuela by Pope Francis: "His message to Venezuela is perfect; we fully welcome it."

"We will designate a flexible, promoting team of open doors, not at all sectarian or closed."

Calling Henrique Capriles


Maduro reaffirmed his invitation to opposition leader Henrique Capriles to join the National Peace Conference. "I keep my call to Miranda state government; I suggested a meeting with state governors of Lara, Amazonas," he said at Miraflores presidential palace, before an audience including top authorities of the government branches.

Source: El Universal

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