Between “roosters and midnight” the Police of the state Bolivar, the National Guard and the Army - armed with anti-riot equipment they dissolved the protest that from Monday the residents of the Sifontes municipality carried out, which they demand the freedom of the elect mayor, Carlos Chancellor. In the operation, conducted to the 5:00 of the dawn of this Wednesday, several wounded of asphyxiated pellets and with the tear pumps registered itself. Other eight people were prisoners, among them, educational of a school of Tumeremo and a man with incapacity.

*Según the commander of the PEB, the order against the demonstrators was given by the Office of the public prosecutor Fifth of the Public Ministry.

*Pobladores of Tumeremo express “impotence” before which they consider a “irrespeto” to the popular will of 23N.

*Policías and the military guarded the capital of the municipality to avoid new waves of protests.

Natalie Garci'a
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In order to repress the manifestation, initiate Monday, the authorities used tear pumps and pellets. The order abrir the passage of main the 10 was issued by the Office of the public prosecutor Fifth of the Public Ministry, that takes the case where eight people, identified like Trina were catched Maria Lopez, of 54 years; Yexis de Jesus Mejías, of 18 years; Red Eduardo Montilla, of 26 years; Jose Germa'n Palomino, of 60 years; Petterson Rondon Howard, of 50 years; Luis Felipe Lugo, educator of 32 years; Nerco Second Corner, of 48 years and Richard Jose Marcano, of 39 years.

To this last person they retained a filmadora camera to him Sony with which it had recorded part of the happened thing. Also a car was retained marks Ford, Conquering, blue model, that was preventing the passage by main the 10. All the prisoners were taken to Ordaz Port for their respective presentation in the Palace of Justice.

Disarmed town
Amanda Herrera, one of the demonstrators, commented that “to the 5:00 in the morning Mr. Manzulli sent ninety police to us, we does not have arms, is not aggressive, that the President realizes, Sir president the last call that to him the mothers do of family, the children, the miners, all in himself we asked that Carlos Chancellor is in freedom”.

Jose Carvajal, resident of Tumeremo, indicated that “we felt sad, repressed, because cónchale sees what they are doing to us, removed to the commando from the police, the guard, everything and that to us against the will than we chose, because through people we are passing all this and is with reason because it is our leader, Carlos Chancellor and simply we asked by its freedom”.

It added that the deception by the facts of this Wednesday is that “no longer we know in whom to believe, if in the President of the Republic, our governor, in our police, because we are being repressed for a single reason, that we requested the freedom of our mayor, to that we chose with a high percentage in the past elections. It is necessary that the mass media disclose what is really happening in Tumeremo. The commander of the police has shown no mercy of a way so, not with the mayorship but with a town that true justice is requesting”.

Extreme cruelty?
In spite of the situation of the dawn and the indignation of the demonstrators, these went out to finally request by the liberation of Chancellor betting itself in the Place Bolivar, where they shouted slogans and they asked the commander of the police, Julio Caesar Manzulli Sources, that the face gave them.

Zulma Roque expressed that “Manzulli is the one that is attacking against the town, he was the one that sent to look for those ninety police City Bolivar so that it attacked against this town, because the Army of Tumeremo said no. to him This is a disarmed town, is an extreme cruelty that it has against the town because it has aspirations of the Mayorship, but does not go, who is going to vote by him”.

On the other hand Julio Caesar Manzulli Sources, commander of the estadal police, informed that “after 48 hours of the closing of main the 10 he came himself to the clearing from the same motivated by the refusal of those who was declaring by the freedom of Chancellor and motivated by the great amount of people in both directions that needed to do use of the free transit was come according to order of the office of the public prosecutor to use the public force. We have prisoners and we are making presence of cash with the anti-riot ones guaranteeing the security of the Sifontes municipality”.

Police unfolding
For the operation of Wednesday eighty national police, thirty guards and thirty Military staff were taken to Tumeremo, all with anti-riot equipment. In afternoon the civil servants they even remained in different points to avoid more paralyzations in main the 10.

White, resident Sulin of Sifontes, expressed: “we want that the president listens this desperate town. Here there is people who run when the president makes a call, but when we needed the president nobody he listens to us. The town is desperate, we needed that they take care of to us, here people cannot be expressed because it is attacked. The delinquency makes what it gives the desire him, husband revivieron the doctors and who gave the shots them walk that way, where it was the police with his arms, but serve to repress to which they requested the freedom of Chancellor”.

Civic unemployment

In view of the situation that lived east Wednesday in Sifontes, the commerce in Tumeremo initiated civic unemployment that motivated the closing of almost all the businesses of the town. Oscar Speck, enterprise leader of Sifontes, ex- president of the Chamber of Commerce and representative of the Camera of the Construction, said that “Tumeremo is living historical moments motivated by all the facts that have come provoking… we recently as industralists responsible for the city we are making civic unemployment by today - Wednesday in support to mayor Carlos Chancellor, so that of it really makes justice and the decisions around the case are taken”.