Venezuelan lawmakers beaten, thrown into sewer by security forces
Cops and Robbers
Caracas Chronicles, Translated by Javier Liendo.
By Naky Soto - June 6, 2017
"The children’s game usually differentiates between them, but yesterday, the men in uniform played both roles at leisure. The third sit-in called by the MUD was repressed early on, with raids at 5:30 a.m. in Altamira and El Paraíso, illegal arrests and harassment in almost every protest rallying point. Wherever protesters tried to block the roads, the National Guard and the PNB rained tear-gas on them. What changed? Robberies went off the roof (cellphones, wallets, backpacks, cameras, shoes and even merchandise from street vendors) with the threat that something much worse would happen if they didn’t vacate the area.
Lawmakers Miguel Pizarro and Juan Requesens were beaten by GN –the latter was thrown into a sewer–, while repression dialed up the heat including officers from the Anti-kidnapping Command (CONAS), who openly used firearms against protesters in Chuao, despite the fact that this command’s not meant to maintain public order and that weapons are forbidden for these tasks..."
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