Politics
Ricardo Sánchez, a student leader and President of the Federation of Students' Councils (FCU) at the Central University of Venezuela (UCV), along with a group of students, were received on Wednesday by César Luena, a Spanish Parliament deputy and secretary of Spain's Socialist Youth Movement. The group explained to him the situation of human rights in Venezuela.

"The four presidents of the Federation of Students' Councils who travelled to Spain were received in the Spanish Parliament by Deputy César Luena, a member of parliament who is the Secretary of Spain's Socialist Youth Movement; a leftist politician who is aware of Venezuela's situation, who understands what is happening with our students. He expressed solidarity with the hunger strike," Sánchez said from Madrid.

He added that during the meeting, they delivered a report about the socio-political situation facing Venezuela, "especially on the issue of freedom of expression, the right to information, the right to protest, and of course the criminalization of politics."

Similarly, they submitted a list of requests from the student movement "which, among other things, demands the Spanish Parliament to discuss Venezuela's situation and demands the Spanish Socialist Youth to urge the Inter-American Court on Human Rights (IACHR) to visit the OAS headquarters in Caracas (where students are waging a hunger strike)."

Sánchez also stressed that in the coming hours they will hold a meeting with Alvaro Cuevas, the President of the Commission on Justice of the Spanish Parliament.

Translated by Gerardo Cárdenas