Security forces on Thursday raided the home of former President Jaime Lusinchi, east of Caracas, by order of a court investigating an alleged concealment of weapons on the property. Álvaro Lusinchi, the former president's son, told Globovision that a team of police on Thursday raided the house and said the court order was a "hoax" and a "desperate measure" of the government to "shake off the subject of Education Act" which recently passed the National Assembly, and has led to street protests in the capital and other cities. The son of former president said the raid lasted about three hours, and that the authorities did not confiscate anything. Lusinchi, who governed Venezuela from between 1984 to 1989, was petitioned last year, along with 13 other officials from his administration, by the Prosecutor General to clarify his alleged involvement in the slaughter of Yumare call in which nine people died in 1986. Lusinchi has lived outside the country for more than two decades and his last known addresses were located in the Costa Rican capital of San Jose and Miami.
Andrés Ramírez, an agricultural producer in Timotes in the state of Mérida, said Thursday after the protests farmers held there in reaction to government failure to repair a main road, today the town is militarized. "Two months ago the Minister of Interior and Justice Tarek El Aissami said they were going to do the work and still nothing has happened." "There are 9 people being detained in Mérida and we call on the governor of the state who is now lashing out against the public, this will not stand. The people are calm and the town awoke militarized ", said Ramírez. He said the deterioration of the road is such that the agricultural producers of Timotes have suffered serious crop loss. "No one wants to plant anything that cannot be delivered to the people because of bad roads," he said. He stressed that "the town is calm; but it awoke to militarization with the arrival of a detachment of the National Guard who are repressing agricultural producers, taking their tools, hoes and knives to cut down agriculture stocks." The representative of the association of agricultural producers in Mérida state said that on Wednesday, " a good number of farmers gathered to march on the trans-Andean highway from the state of Mérida to the state of Trujillo, which collapsed 9 months ago due to a large landslide." He said yesterday's demonstration was repelled with tear gas, "a squad of Mérida police commanded by Commander Grillo arrived, attacking a peaceful demonstration. Our weapons are our hoes, the tools of agricultural labor "
Members of 13 opposition parties that make up the alliance of the Democratic Unity Committee denounced yesterday the successive attacks by various state authorities against political parties and other civil society organizations in the country, according to a bulletin. Mary Verdeal, representative of the Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) and member of the Commission on Human Rights and Justice in the Democratic Unity Committee said that this is a "brutal attack" by the government against all the political parties represented by the association. Verdeal said the Attorney General, Luisa Ortega Díaz, ignoring the violations of the Constitution, is furthermore being "instructed from Miraflores to intimidate the opposition political leadership of the country and leave out its mission of guaranteeing legality." Finally, Verdeal said they denounce the presence of police in recent days, uniformed and civilian, in the headquarters of the party Un Nuevo Tiempo, Copei, Podemos and the Movimiento al Socialismo in order to "inform an alleged report being prepared against the opposition political parties." The alliance urged interior minister, the president and all the respective authorities to once and for all "take off the mask and declare that in Venezuela the plurality of political parties is not respected, the Magna Carta is not respected and a communist and dictatorial regime exists."
The Brazilian Association of Radio and Television Broadcasters (ABERT) warned of the "curtailment of freedom of expression" and "escalation of violence" against the Venezuelan press which the government of President Chávez is accused of carrying out. "In recent weeks, the assaults of President Chávez's government and political groups allied against media and journalists have intensified." In a statement issued in Brasilia, the ABERT expressed "its deep concern for the deterioration of the rights to freedom of speech and press" in Venezuela. The association cites the "closing" of 34 radio stations whose operating licenses were not renewed and the introduction of a "Media Crimes Law which includes provisions that imprison journalists", as well as an attack on Globovisión television studios and attacks suffered by journalists in the streets. It also argues that the new Education Law, which has caused much controversy, is a tool that "enhances the influence of pro-Chávez leaders in schools and threatens the autonomy of universities." "The ABERT reiterates its concern with the escalation of violence and the removal of the practice of journalism, which seriously affect the rule of law."
From the airport Maiquetia, the Caracas Mayor Antonio Ledezma said he had to suspend the tour that he was conducting for "solidarity" with the employees of the Metropolitan Mayor's Office which on Thursday once again went to the Supreme Court to await the transfer of the prefect of Caracas, Richard Blanco, and 11 companions who were arrested on Wednesday during a demonstration against the Municipal Regime Law. On arriving in Caracas, after a trip to Buenos Aires to establish city-to-city agreements and participate in the Common Market of Cities Summit, Ledezma called on citizens to maintain "a war footing" and to continue defending the constitutional rights, democracy, freedom of expression and education. "That was my conclusion at the summits in which I participated with the mayor of Buenos Aires. That was my message working with the Media Commission of the Argentine Congress, as well as with business and community leaders." He said that Argentine officials could not "get over their astonishment" to see how the Metropolitan Mayor's Office is being abused and how constitutional rights are being trampled. He said that they have asked for solidarity from the international community.
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