Politics
Roy Chaderton, the Permanent Representative of Venezuela to the Organization of American States, said that the hunger strike staged by dissenting students intends to advocate the old establishment.

He added that the students are driven by "interests, instructions and inspirations that have nothing to do with youth energy and combativeness; young people do not lend themselves to this manipulation."

Chaderton questioned the fact that the students are really holding a hunger strike. "They lie on a sidewalk and eat pork 'arepas' furtively. They drink juice and eat to stay strong. Therefore, I am not impressed at all."

The announcement that a representation of students will visit the headquarters of the OAS to discuss their demands, including their request that the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the OAS sends a mission to visit Venezuela, "is part of history."