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Three killed in student demonstration in Caracas

At least three dead, 26 wounded and 30 arrested Wednesday left protests in Caracas against the Venezuelan government whose president Nicolas Maduro scored coup attempt

Thousands of students, accompanied by opposition leaders marched to demand by insecurity, inflation and lack of commodities, in a further escalation of university protests since 10 days occur in different cities of the Venezuelan interior.

"We have two dead people, unfortunately the citizen of a collective (Chavez) Juan Montoya, died as a result of a gunshot wound. Likewise the person who is the name of Dacosta Bassil, who also died product of a bullet" in Caracas, told reporters the Attorney General Luisa Ortega Diaz.

In addition there are "23 injured nationwide, most of them public officials," said the prosecutor.

Interior Minister, Miguel Rodriguez, adding that more than 30 people also stopped. "We all walked with hoods, radios and handbags that had loaded petrol bombs, stones, all kinds of elements to attack the police," he explained.

New protests

By nightfall, eight hours after the start of the demonstrations, small group starred new simultaneous protests in various parts of Caracas.

Outside the offices of the AFP in the eastern sector of the city, riot police dispersed with tear gas groups a hundred young men who had cut Avenida Francisco de Miranda and tires on.

"Our focus for a peaceful protest. How could we have killed two students?" Eisi said Vanessa, a student at Catholic University.

 

In recent days, there have been student protests against the government of President Nicolas Maduro in Táchira, Zulia and Merida (west) states, whose capital was a dozen students arrested five gunshot wounds Tuesday when individuals on motorcycles the They shot him, according to media reports.

"We are marching because we want the freedom of our imprisoned comrades, but also by the situation, the deteriorating economy, the scarcity that keeps us fed and insecurity," he told AFP Daniela Muñoz, a medical student at the University Central de Venezuela.

The demonstration in Caracas, which was replicated in other places of the country, started from the morning alongside thousands of government supporters took to the streets to mark the "Day of Youth", become an act in defense of Maduro, who he joined the rally.

In recent weeks, there have also been protests by workers registered newspapers in Venezuela, claiming the government to import currency paper, and street closures in Caracas for a few hours to protest the insecurity and economic crisis.

Anger and claim

For thousands, walking under a hot sun, with flags of Venezuela and jackets from their respective universities, the protesters arrived early afternoon to the headquarters of the Public Ministry.

"Mature, funky, free to students", "They steal, kill us and the government does nothing" or "Y will fall, and will fall, this government will fall!" Were some of the slogans who shouted the students, who filled about five blocks along a central avenue of the capital.

"Students are tired of insecurity, scarcity, of having to leave the country after studying that no there are no opportunities here," he told AFP Biaggo Alvarado, university 20 years.

Venezuela, with the largest oil reserves in the world, is experiencing a severe economic crisis marked by inflation of 56.3% and a 28% shortage of basic food products in January, while the criminal violence leaves according to official estimates or NGOs between 39 and 79 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants, respectively.

Congresswoman Maria Corina Machado, Leopoldo López, leader of People's Will and Antonio Ledezma, mayor of Caracas The student march opposition leaders as Henrique Capriles, governor of Miranda joined.

The demonstration was only intermittently transmitted by private broadcasters, on Tuesday after the government body that regulates electronic and digital media warned of sanctions for those who do "promoting violence".

In the ruling concentration, dominated by the red color of Chavez and transmitted over four hours in the official television, Maduro claimed that the opposition protests reflect a "Nazi-fascist current that wants to lead our country to the street violence ".

Authorities have not commented on the allegations of student organizations of armed attacks against their protests, but Maduro acknowledged that there have been violent episodes, but denied that the case of Chavez supporters.

"Here one must use gun, nobody here should go to attack, I call upon the national consciousness," Maduro had requested without giving further details about the aggressions.