Politics
The president of the University Student Council (FCU), Central University of Venezuela (UCV), Ricardo Sánchez, urged all students throughout the country to demonstrate, but refraining themselves from following "the violent agenda that the government would like us to take."

He rebutted the discrediting means that the Executive Office "is using to criminalize and stigmatize the student movement" and recalled that university protests will continue "through the way of democracy; of civic, peaceful struggle."

He also asked for respect of student demonstrations and promised that they would not let anybody "to be touched even by a rose petal."

"We tell all our classmates from all the country's universities, it is time to move on, but, please, we ask you from the bottom of the UCV heart, do not fall into violence."

"When I was 15 years old, you said that this country would be for the youth, but you lied. We feel cheated; we feel disappointed. You told us that should we win the (referendum on the constitutional) reform, you would not deal anymore with the issue of indefinite reelection, and you lied," he addressed to President Hugo Chávez.

Cristina Hossne
EL UNIVERSAL