The regional initiative to solicit more resources from the National Assembly was again knocked down. The committee composed of governors Henrique Capriles Radonski and Cesar Perez Vivas, and Mayors Antonio Ledezma, Carlos Ocariz and Gerardo Blyde, requested a budget for the region from Parliament and was severely assaulted by Chávez supporters upon leaving the Parliament building. Blyde and dissident Congressman Wilmer Azuaje suffered splinter wounds and injuries after being hit by blunt objects thrown by a group of government supporters. Only the governors and Mayor Ledezma managed to escape uninjured thanks to the intervention of the National Guard. "They met their objective," said Capriles Radonski on seeing a large mobilisation of forces reaching Plaza Morelos. Source: El Universal
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