Politics
Antonio Ledezma, the mayor of the Caracas Metropolitan Area, has gone on hunger strike inside the Embassy of the Organization of American States (OAS) to air to the world "the ongoing serious situation of democratic instability in the country."

Ledezma made the decision to request the following in front of the hemispheric organization:

1. Immediate provision of funds to pay the wages of the mayoralty workers.

2. Cessation of the arbitrary dismantling of the mayoralty by the central government.

3. Appointment by the OAS of a high-level delegation to visit Venezuela and monitor the serious situation of democracy; violation of the Constitution, and, particularly, what is happening to the Caracas Metropolitan Mayoralty and the state governments of Táchira, Zulia, Miranda, Carabobo and Nueva Esparta.

4. Learning about how government authorities disregard the national sovereignty.