Victims of right-wing Venezuela protests speak in Brussels

Victims of right-wing Venezuela protests speak in Brussels

By Staff Writers, teleSUR
Wednesday, Jun 17, 2015

A committee representing the victims of Venezuela’s right-wing protests over 2013 and 2014 met Tuesday with the European Parliament in Brussels to explain their side of the violent events in which more than 40 people were killed.

Known as the “Victims of the Guarimba,” the group, made up of family members and friends of the victims, was named after the blockades that anti-government protesters used, which killed many government supporters by garroting them with wires purposefully positioned at neck-height. The group told the European Parliament deputies about the human rights abuses provoked by the political opposition. Opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez is currently serving time for inciting the violence that led to the Venezuelan blood bath.

Desiree Cabrera, a mother affected by the demonstrations last year, said that what she told Brussels was the truth, and that opposition groups were trying to hide the reality from the European nations.

Cabrera told teleSUR that she had to evacuate a day care center of more than 80 children less than three years of age, when tear gas sprayed by the opposition began to affect them.

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