Venezuelan opposition admits scant attendance at Caracas demonstration

Venezuelan opposition admits scant attendance at Caracas demonstration

Published August 08, 2015/
EFE

The Venezuelan opposition alliance, the Democratic Unity Roundtable, or MUD, admitted that the demonstration it called for Saturday in Caracas was poorly attended, but said it has no doubts about winning the legislative elections next December.

The march scheduled for Caracas and in all 24 of the state capitals around the country "against hunger, against crime, for freedom, for unity," finally attracted several dozen people in a single street of the Venezuelan capital.

Asked what happened, MUD Executive Secretary Jesus Torrealba told reporters that the demonstration was reduced to a "meeting of activists."

"This is a meeting of activists, of militants. The great mass of citizens are standing in line" at stores to find products that have become very scarce in regular establishments but are available at inflated prices from informal vendors," Torrealba said.

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