Two ABC activists wounded at Venezuela demo.
Louise Michel | 09.11.2007 14:12 | World
A sympathiser of venezuela ABC was shot and a member stabbed at a demo in Venezuela, demanding that the coming referendum on consitutional reform is posponed until early next year. Up to seven other students were wounded when government supporters attacked their demonstration at Venezuela Central University.
Background: In early December ammendments to the venezuelan constitution will be put to a referendum. The opposition, both right and left wing, are demanding that the date is set back, so that there is a chance to inform the public of what those changes entail as, among other things, extend presidential powers to rule by decree, and remove the limits to how long he can be in office.
In the eve of the consultation the governments rethoric, and that of its supporters, has been increasingly agressive towards the oposition, in many cases calling for the violent repression of the protests. Here's the press note from venezuela ABC as posted on indymedia venezuela.
Today, Wednesday 7th of November, 2007, Gerardo Olivares was shot in the leg while struggling with a masked government supporter. Gerardo is a student of humanities at Venezuela Central University (UCV), is an antiauthoritarian and a friend of Venezuela ABC. The attacker was part of a group of chavistas who were hidding by the Social Workers School at UCV to try to scare off the students taking part in the protest which aimed to march toward the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ).
Source: ABC-Venezuela.
The whole situation happened when at the end of the concentration the students from that centre were walking back to the buildings. On one side of the Venezuela Square there was a group of chavistas waiting for them armed with sticks, stones, tear gas bombs, homemade explosive devices, and guns, to disperse the crowd.
Fed up with the authoritarian and fascist attitude of the government supporters the students decided to confront the group, which found itself surrounded so they moved to lock themselves inside the Social Workers School, which is home to different pro government groups. Gerardo, among others, confronted these individuals who then, and without exchanging a word, shot him in the leg. He was one of the first to be wounded in the fight.
After that, a big number of students was hanging around outside the building of the school trying to detain the thugs locked in the school. At some point some students tried to burn down the doors of the building to force them to come out but they were unsuccessful. After waiting for an hour about a 100 government supporters on motorbikes and holding handguns rode into the university campus, shot on the students and allowed the attackers to leave.
On this second attack, the libertarian Gustavo Sandoval, a humanities student in the UCV and member of Venezuela ABC was stabbed by one of the persons on the motorbikes, rescuing the chavistas.
Luckily our two comrades are recovering well from their wounds.
These fascist attacks show clearly the authoritarian nature Hugo Chávez Frías and his supporters. In the end there were 9 students shot and many others stabbed or hurt and bruised by stones.
From venezuela ABC we make a call for support from all the antiauthoritarians and anarchists to please be aware of the situation in our country, and specially of the physical integrity of our comrades.
You can see the pictures of our friend Gerardo (with a black shirt) strugling with his attacker on our blog. The picture was taken by a journalist from associate press and shown at CNN and other wesites. It's on
http://cnainforma.blogspot.com/
We'll soon upload videos of how he collapses on the ground after being shot, and also showing how the chavistas attacked the demo, and of the motorbikers holding guns.
Original text:
Hoy miércoles 7 de noviembre de 2007, fue herido de bala en la pierna, Gerardo Olivares, estudiante de Letras de la Universidad Central de Venezuela (UCV), antiautoritario, y amigo de la Cruz Negra Anarquista de Venezuela, cuando forcejeaba contra un encapuchado simpatizante del oficialismo que junto a un grupo de chavistas se apostaron en la escuela de Trabajo Social de la UCV para amedrentar a los jóvenes que participaron en la movilización estudiantil que se dirigió hasta el Tribunal Supremo de Justicia (TSJ).
Fuente: CNA-Venezuela
La situación irregular ocurrió cuando al finalizar la concentración los estudiantes de esa casa de estudio se trasladaron a pie hasta sus instalaciones. En la entrada de Plaza Venezuela los estaba esperando un grupo de chavistas armados con palos, piedras, bombas lacrimógenas, niples (bombas caseras) y armas de fuego para disolver al grupo.
Estos asqueados de la actitud intolerante y facistoide del oficialismo decidieron hacerle frente al grupúsculo que al verse acorralado se atrinchero dentro de la Escuela de Trabajo Social (pro-oficialista, donde hacen vida varios grupos chavistas) Gerardo, entre muchos, valientemente afronto a los individuos que sin mediar palabras ni escrúpulos lo hirieron en una pierna, siendo de los primeros en caer durante la refriega.
Después de esto un gran numero de estudiantes se aposto a las afuera de Trabajo Social para detener a los pistoleros que se encontraban atrincherados en la escuela, consecuencia de esto un grupo de estudiantes intento quemar el reciento para que salieran, cosa que no pudieron lograr ya que después de esperar una hora, un grupo de 100 motorizados del oficialismo con sus respectivos parrilleros y armados con pistolas entraron dentro de la universidad disparando contra los estudiantes y ayudando a escapar a los agresores.
En este segundo ataque fue herido el libertario Gustavo Sandoval, estudiante de Letras de la UCV, miembro de la CNA de Venezuela con un cuchillo por uno de los motorizados que rescato a los chavistas.
Afortunadamente ambos compañeros se encuentran en buen estado de salud actualmente.
Estas acciones facistoides solo dejan en evidencia el carácter totalitario y tiránico de Hugo Chávez Frías y sus simpatizantes. El saldo final de la confrontación se saldo con 9 heridos de bala y varios heridos y lesionados por armas cortopunzantes y piedras.
Desde la Cruz Negra Anarquista de Venezuela hacemos un llamado a todo el movimiento antiautoritario y anarquista global ha estar pendiente de la situación en Venezuela y sobre todo de la integridad físico de nuestros compañeros.
En nuestro blog podrán observar la imagen de Gerardo (camisa negra) forceando con el pistolero. La foto fue tomada por un reportero de asociate press y publicada en CNN y otros portales. Para verla visita: http://cnainforma.blogspot.com/
Pronto colgaremos el video donde se ve como se desploma por la herida, así de cómo los chavistas arremeten contra los estudiantes o el ingreso de los motorizados armados.
In the eve of the consultation the governments rethoric, and that of its supporters, has been increasingly agressive towards the oposition, in many cases calling for the violent repression of the protests. Here's the press note from venezuela ABC as posted on indymedia venezuela.
Today, Wednesday 7th of November, 2007, Gerardo Olivares was shot in the leg while struggling with a masked government supporter. Gerardo is a student of humanities at Venezuela Central University (UCV), is an antiauthoritarian and a friend of Venezuela ABC. The attacker was part of a group of chavistas who were hidding by the Social Workers School at UCV to try to scare off the students taking part in the protest which aimed to march toward the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ).
Source: ABC-Venezuela.
The whole situation happened when at the end of the concentration the students from that centre were walking back to the buildings. On one side of the Venezuela Square there was a group of chavistas waiting for them armed with sticks, stones, tear gas bombs, homemade explosive devices, and guns, to disperse the crowd.
Fed up with the authoritarian and fascist attitude of the government supporters the students decided to confront the group, which found itself surrounded so they moved to lock themselves inside the Social Workers School, which is home to different pro government groups. Gerardo, among others, confronted these individuals who then, and without exchanging a word, shot him in the leg. He was one of the first to be wounded in the fight.
After that, a big number of students was hanging around outside the building of the school trying to detain the thugs locked in the school. At some point some students tried to burn down the doors of the building to force them to come out but they were unsuccessful. After waiting for an hour about a 100 government supporters on motorbikes and holding handguns rode into the university campus, shot on the students and allowed the attackers to leave.
On this second attack, the libertarian Gustavo Sandoval, a humanities student in the UCV and member of Venezuela ABC was stabbed by one of the persons on the motorbikes, rescuing the chavistas.
Luckily our two comrades are recovering well from their wounds.
These fascist attacks show clearly the authoritarian nature Hugo Chávez Frías and his supporters. In the end there were 9 students shot and many others stabbed or hurt and bruised by stones.
From venezuela ABC we make a call for support from all the antiauthoritarians and anarchists to please be aware of the situation in our country, and specially of the physical integrity of our comrades.
You can see the pictures of our friend Gerardo (with a black shirt) strugling with his attacker on our blog. The picture was taken by a journalist from associate press and shown at CNN and other wesites. It's on
http://cnainforma.blogspot.com/ We'll soon upload videos of how he collapses on the ground after being shot, and also showing how the chavistas attacked the demo, and of the motorbikers holding guns.
Original text:
Hoy miércoles 7 de noviembre de 2007, fue herido de bala en la pierna, Gerardo Olivares, estudiante de Letras de la Universidad Central de Venezuela (UCV), antiautoritario, y amigo de la Cruz Negra Anarquista de Venezuela, cuando forcejeaba contra un encapuchado simpatizante del oficialismo que junto a un grupo de chavistas se apostaron en la escuela de Trabajo Social de la UCV para amedrentar a los jóvenes que participaron en la movilización estudiantil que se dirigió hasta el Tribunal Supremo de Justicia (TSJ).
Fuente: CNA-Venezuela
La situación irregular ocurrió cuando al finalizar la concentración los estudiantes de esa casa de estudio se trasladaron a pie hasta sus instalaciones. En la entrada de Plaza Venezuela los estaba esperando un grupo de chavistas armados con palos, piedras, bombas lacrimógenas, niples (bombas caseras) y armas de fuego para disolver al grupo.
Estos asqueados de la actitud intolerante y facistoide del oficialismo decidieron hacerle frente al grupúsculo que al verse acorralado se atrinchero dentro de la Escuela de Trabajo Social (pro-oficialista, donde hacen vida varios grupos chavistas) Gerardo, entre muchos, valientemente afronto a los individuos que sin mediar palabras ni escrúpulos lo hirieron en una pierna, siendo de los primeros en caer durante la refriega.
Después de esto un gran numero de estudiantes se aposto a las afuera de Trabajo Social para detener a los pistoleros que se encontraban atrincherados en la escuela, consecuencia de esto un grupo de estudiantes intento quemar el reciento para que salieran, cosa que no pudieron lograr ya que después de esperar una hora, un grupo de 100 motorizados del oficialismo con sus respectivos parrilleros y armados con pistolas entraron dentro de la universidad disparando contra los estudiantes y ayudando a escapar a los agresores.
En este segundo ataque fue herido el libertario Gustavo Sandoval, estudiante de Letras de la UCV, miembro de la CNA de Venezuela con un cuchillo por uno de los motorizados que rescato a los chavistas.
Afortunadamente ambos compañeros se encuentran en buen estado de salud actualmente.
Estas acciones facistoides solo dejan en evidencia el carácter totalitario y tiránico de Hugo Chávez Frías y sus simpatizantes. El saldo final de la confrontación se saldo con 9 heridos de bala y varios heridos y lesionados por armas cortopunzantes y piedras.
Desde la Cruz Negra Anarquista de Venezuela hacemos un llamado a todo el movimiento antiautoritario y anarquista global ha estar pendiente de la situación en Venezuela y sobre todo de la integridad físico de nuestros compañeros.
En nuestro blog podrán observar la imagen de Gerardo (camisa negra) forceando con el pistolero. La foto fue tomada por un reportero de asociate press y publicada en CNN y otros portales. Para verla visita:
http://cnainforma.blogspot.com/ Pronto colgaremos el video donde se ve como se desploma por la herida, así de cómo los chavistas arremeten contra los estudiantes o el ingreso de los motorizados armados.
Louise Michel
Additions
source
13.11.2007 01:14
The original source of this seems to be this blog (is there a permalink?)
http://cnainforma.blogspot.com/
And the IMC Venezuela copy, with many comments, is here:
http://venezuela.indymedia.org/es/2007/11/11280.shtml
A translation or summary of the comments in English would be nice if someone is bilingual...
http://cnainforma.blogspot.com/ And the IMC Venezuela copy, with many comments, is here:
http://venezuela.indymedia.org/es/2007/11/11280.shtml A translation or summary of the comments in English would be nice if someone is bilingual...
salmon
Homepage:
http://venezuela.indymedia.org/es/2007/11/11280.shtml
Comments
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king amdo
11.11.2007 10:41
fuck off
counter-revolutionary
12.11.2007 10:23
communist
Anarchy forever!
12.11.2007 14:52
It is never right to form an authoritarian government, and line up your opponents. This is what was wrong with Russia, China and other Stalinist regimes. Same with Chavez. The ABC and the anarchists are doing a good job, and we should support them. After all, whats the different between Hitler and Stalin? Also, Chavez is a military general. He is neither Hitler or Stalin, but he could go that way. Support the ABC!
Libertarian socialist
If you want to read a different version of what happened....
18.11.2007 21:28
From Federico Fuentes "Green-Left Weekly" -
".....The violent campaign by small groups of fascist students — with the burning of buildings and vehicles, including that belonging to the environment minister — continued the day after Baduel's press conference. The campaign has included a number of shootings on university campuses. The national and international media have attempted to portray the students as victims of a "dictatorship", either implying or outright lying that the shootings were carried out by Chavista forces.
One example was a highly publicised shooting in the University of Zulia on November 2 that was initially blamed on Chavista students. Once it was revealed that the death had been a result of a shoot out between two rival opposition parties, the overwhelmingly anti-Chavez private media quickly dropped the story without clarifying the truth. (This should at least put to rest the lie these days Chavez controls the media.)......"
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