11/09/2007
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Universities mobilize against Chávez's constitutional reform
BARQUISIMETO. DIEGO RIVERO HAS indelible MARKS on his skin: a scar on his
abdomen, one on his back, and another on the left side of his body. For 10 years, he
has lived with a bullet lodged between his abdominal muscle and ribs, fired from the
ranks of an armed group that in 2007 took over the headquarters of the "professor's
house" at the Antonio José de Sucre (Unexpo), in Barquisimeto.
The abrupt and violent takeover of the professor's house —a building built by the
teachers' union within the university premises that would serve to house social services
— marked a before and after in the actions of irregular groups, some calling
themselves "collectives." , formed within public universities in Barquisimeto. It was also
the longest occupation by force —and weapons— of an educational facility in the state
of Lara.
The appearance of student groups calling themselves collectives at Unexpo and the
Pedagogical Institute of Barquisimeto (UPEL-IPB) also dates back more dynamically to
the year 2002, during the administration of the former governor of Lara state, Luis
Reyes Reyes (2000-2008), according to workers and teachers from these houses of
higher education pointed out. In 2002 there were already at least eight groups in UPEL:
Left Bloc, Ali Primera, Pío Tamayo, Simón Bolívar, Che Guevara, Colectivo
Revolucionario Estudiantil 9 (CRE-9), Gayones and Movimiento 5.
These student groups, linked to government institutions and political parties affiliated
with the government, began to make themselves felt for their violent and arbitrary
actions that quickly became radicalized with the progressive control of spaces in the
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institution and the intimidation of teaching and administrative staff, with the consent —
also, according to the complaints— of the university authorities and the support of
political leaders. At least four members of these groups later went on to join the ranks
of the ruling party's political parties.
Some of these groups acted under the protection of student representation
organizations and little by little they imposed themselves by carrying out violent actions
of a partisan political nature, such as the systematic repression of anti-government
demonstrations, attacks on the media and journalists, and intimidation of opposition
leaders. and even damage to local offices of the Public Power. Although most of these
groups could have been set up to represent student bodies, or to fight for social
demands, their actions resulted in clear acts of violence and criminality of a political
nature.
The ambiguity with which the State acts with respect to these organizations was later
resolved with precision throughout the protests of the following years, when these
paramilitary groups acted openly in functions of repression and control of public order,
in some cases identified with flannels. of the ruling party. In the protests carried out in
2007, the distance that initially seemed to disconnect the actions of the paramilitaries
with those of the State security forces was shortened.
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05/28/2007
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Gunshot wounded in protests over the closure of RCTV in Venezuela
Members of the National Guard and the metropolitan police fired tear gas and shot
plastic bullets to disperse the university students who were protesting on Monday the
decision of President Hugo Chávez not to renew the transmission concession to RCTV
that went off the air at midnight on Sunday.
In Valencia, some 150 kilometers west of Caracas, four students from the University of
Carabobo were shot in a confused incident, Interior Minister Pedro Carreño confirmed
in an interview broadcast by the state-run Venezolana de Televisión.
"In the faculty of education and engineering, an internal incident was generated where
firearms were released within the same university community," said the minister,
without giving details.
Witnesses told the press that armed masked men, supposedly sympathizers of the
Venezuelan ruler, violently dispersed the protest that was taking place on the premises
of the University of Carabobo. Four students were injured in the brawl.
In Caracas, meanwhile, two students were injured by plastic pellets and a third by one
of the tear gas bombs in the surroundings of the Metropolitan University in Caracas,
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said Ana Teresa Yépez, dean of students at that university. She added that around 20
young people were treated for gas inhalation.
After noon, hundreds of young students moved to Plaza Brión, in Chacaito, where they
joined artists, several journalists who were not working and some workers from nearby
offices. They were there peacefully for several hours until, in confused incidents,
agents of the Metropolitan Police fired tear gas and plastic rubber bullets to disperse
the protesters who were in the middle of the road.
The students began their protest in the early hours of the morning, at the entrances of
various public and private universities in the capital, to express concern for the future of
freedom of expression. In several there were clashes between students and national
guards.
"I plan to continue demonstrating because we are Venezuelans and we are within our
rights," said Valentina Ramos, a 17-year-old student at the Metropolitan University,
who was one of the wounded.
The National Guard said they acted after the students threw stones and sticks at them.
Chávez refused to renew the concession to RCTV, which he accused of being a "coup-
monger" channel for having supported the events of April 2002, when he was briefly
deposed.
TVES, the newly created public service channel, broadcasts its programming on the
RCTV frequency and shows artists singing in favor of the government, exercise shows,
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and variety shows. TVES received four million dollars from the government to start
operations.
The secretary general of Reporters Without Borders, Robert Menard, on Monday
condemned the closure of RCTV, which pointed to the "autocratic" nature of the
government.
In his opinion, the closure is "the first serious international political error" of the
president. "It's going to open the eyes of a lot of people abroad who were complacent
and viewed Mr. Chávez's policies with good eyes," he said.
He reported that the journalistic organization will denounce the situation before the
United Nations Human Rights Council.
He warned that in Venezuela there is only one television station critical of the
government - the news channel Globovisión, with limited coverage - while the president
"has a hegemonic position in terms of the media."
Germany, which chairs the European Union, EU, said in a statement that the EU
"considers it important to remember the promises made by the Venezuelan authorities
about maintaining open competition and a process for that license" of transmission.
He added that he hopes that the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela will defend the
freedoms "of expression and of the press and pluralism in the dissemination of
information."
Information Minister Willian Lara requested on Monday to investigate the Venezuelan
news television station Globovisión, accusing it of "inciting" the assassination of the
president, according to him, by recently showing a video of the attack against Pope
John Paul II in 1981, in the who was badly wounded by a Turk.
The video of the pontiff was part of a retelling of the story by station RCTV.
Lara indicated that a ministry expert came to the conclusion that "they are inciting the
assassination of the president of Venezuela."
In response to the minister, the general director of Globovisión Alberto Federico Ravell
ironized that the complaint would seek to sanction the television station, since its
broadcasting license "does not expire" yet.
After RCTV went off the air, one of the most watched in the country and a fierce critic of
the government, at midnight on May 27, "only we were left" in Venezuela with a similar
editorial line, he emphasized.
Journalists Elizabeth M. Núñez and Jorge Rueda, from AP Caracas, contributed to this
information.
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05/29/2007
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Protests in support of the Venezuelan television channel RCTV leave four injured
The students who demonstrated in Caracas against the closure of RCTV broadcasts
concluded their day of protests in front of the headquarters of the Globovisión news
channel, with slogans in favor of freedom of expression .
At 10:00 p.m. local time (4:00 a.m. on Tuesday in Spain), a few protesters were still
gathered outside the private chain after they left peacefully at the end of a day marked
by violent incidents .
A group of protesters remained late in the day in the streets of the municipality of
Chacao , where the local police have been deployed to guarantee security, according
to the mayor, Leopoldo López, one of the leaders of the opposition to the government
of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
The mayor of Chacao reiterated his call for calm and stated that the protest must be
"peaceful." Likewise, he highlighted that the student mobilization in protest against the
non-renewal of the concession to Radio Caracas Televisión (RCTV), which turned off
its signal last midnight, has been spontaneous, without any appeal from the political
parties .
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In the afternoon, violent incidents confronted young people and police in Plaza Brión, in
the Chacaito neighborhood , where hundreds of students and also journalists had
gathered to express their protest. The concentration, at first peaceful, turned violent
when a group of demonstrators tried to go to a large avenue in the area, which
prompted the immediate reaction of the forces of order, who prevented it with tear gas .
Subsequently, students and police clashed again in the area, despite calls for calm,
and security forces finally dispersed the protesters under heavy rain. The student
protests spread this Monday to various cities in Venezuela, such as Valencia , in the
center of the country, where four young people were injured , and the city of Mérida , in
the Andes, where, according to local journalistic sources, a policeman was injured.
Three adolescents who participated in protests in the municipality of Los Salias, on the
outskirts of Caracas, also suffered minor injuries. Local media sources also reported
demonstrations in the city of Barcelona , in eastern Venezuela.
This Monday, the Venezuelan Prosecutor's Office announced that it will present to the
Caracas courts 15 people who were arrested on Sunday night during the
demonstrations against the government's decision not to renew RCTV's license. The
judicial body also indicated that the Public Ministry is investigating the events that
occurred during the riots in the vicinity of the National Telecommunications
Commission (Conatel), in which 11 police officers were injured.
The head of the Metropolitan Police, General Juan Romero, said Monday that law
enforcement officers had been fired upon and showed reporters bullet holes in a
nearby billboard. The 15 people who will soon be brought before the courts were
arrested in different parts of Caracas.
The end of the open signal transmissions of RCTV , one minute before midnight on
Sunday, after expiring the last 20-year concession that was not renewed, gave way to
the new television channel TVes, created by the government that broadcasts on the
same channel 2. The president of the new chain, Lil Rodríguez, announced on Monday
that TVes will launch its live news program on Tuesday, designed by an independent
national production company.
The "informative line" of the new newscast "is given by the board of directors of the
new channel 2, based on the Code of Ethics of the Venezuelan Journalist ," said a note
from the state Bolivarian News Agency (ABN).
The Minister of the Interior, Pedro Carreño, said that the protests in Caracas and other
Venezuelan cities are part of an alleged "opposition plan" that seeks to use the RCTV
case as a "coin to attack the peace and security of citizens and the State." .
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06/02/ 2019
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A Venezuelan citizen dies stabbed in Spain by his partner's old boyfriend
A Venezuelan citizen died this Saturday, June 1, 2019, after being stabbed in the
middle of the street by the former boyfriend of his current partner, also a Venezuelan,
in a municipality in the Spanish province of Barcelona, local media reported this
Sunday, June 2, 2019.
The attacker, a 26-year-old Spaniard who has been arrested, waited in a bar for the
victim, upon whom he pounced armed with a large knife and repeatedly stabbed him to
death in the municipality of Montcada i Reixac .
A group of neighbors held him then until the Catalan regional police arrived to arrest
him.
The police officers are trying to reconstruct the relationship between the detainee and
the stabbed person, as they were acquaintances, and with the victim's 29-year-old
partner who was with him when the event occurred, according to sources close to the
case .
One of the main hypotheses that the investigators are considering is that the crime
obeys a sentimental motive since, according to " El Periódico de Catalunya ", the
detainee had been a partner of the current girlfriend of the deceased.
According to "El Periódico", the victim is a man of Venezuelan nationality who broke up
with his partner because he wanted to return to his country, after which the woman
began a sentimental relationship with the detainee.
He would have returned, however, from Venezuela to the Catalan municipality and
resumed his sentimental relationship with his ex-girlfriend, circumstances that appear
to be behind the stabbing .
The detainee will go to the duty court in the next few hours, once he is questioned by
the police, who will also speak to the numerous witnesses who witnessed the attack.
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07/06/2021
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"They killed him shouting 'faggot'": the protests in Spain over the fatal beating of
a young man in a possible hate crime
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It was a deadly beating and maybe a hate crime as well.
The Spanish police are investigating the death early Saturday morning of 24-year-old
Samuel Luiz, caused by the blows he received from several assailants near a
nightclub.
Although the motive for the crime is being investigated and there are still no arrests, the
complaints from witnesses to the fact make the LGBT collective assume that it is a hate
crime and that Samuel was attacked for being homosexual.
Spanish media report that witnesses to what happened say that the young man "was
killed shouting 'faggot'."
For this reason, on Monday afternoon there were demonstrations in several cities of
the country in which the demands for justice and the fight against homophobia
prevailed.
"Samuel has been killed for being a fag," was one of the slogans of those protests over
the death of the young nurse in the city of La Coruña, in northwestern Spain.
In that city, a group of friends of the victim, very affected, displayed banners that read
"His love did not hurt, your hate did" or "Samu has not died, he has been murdered."
At the protest rally in Madrid, the organizers read a statement in which they said:
"Samuel was killed for being a faggot, we repeat it as many times as necessary."
The president of the government, Pedro Sánchez, described the murder as "a savage
and ruthless act."
Samuel was beaten near a nightclub at dawn on Saturday in La Coruña.
According to some witnesses, quoted in local media, one of the assailants yelled
"faggot" at him, so one of the investigation's hypotheses is that the attack was a hate
crime.
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02/16/2019
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They murder a young man and write with his blood "he's gay" on the wall
Assil Belalta, a 21-year-old student from Algiers, Algeria , was murdered on February
10 in his room in the university village of the Ben Aknoum municipality.
When the Police arrived at the crime scene, they found Belalta's body with a cut throat.
On the walls of his room was written in blood "he is gay" .
According to investigations, the day the murder was committed, two people had
followed him to his room.
Alouen, an organization that promotes the rights of the LGBT community in Algeria,
described the murder as a hate crime since the student had openly declared himself
bisexual .
“Institutional and state homophobia is trivialized. And incitement to hatred against
sexual minorities in Algeria becomes a common currency to make noise and spread
populism," the organization explained.
Homosexuality is criminalized by law in Algeria , so same-sex relationships can carry
fines or up to three years in prison.
The president of the Algerian Magistrates Union, M Laîdouni, affirmed that the
associations that defend LGTBI rights that ask the Government to decriminalize
homosexuality have "trampled on the values and foundations of the Algerian people."
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