Destabilization plan underway, affirms Chávez

Venezuelan students support government measures

CARACAS, May 29.—Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez affirmed this Tuesday that underlying opposition protests over the RCTV case there is a process of destabilization to propitiate violence, and called on the popular sectors to be alert to this, during a speech on radio and television, AFP reports.

“This is an alert to the hills, the barrios and the towns to defend our Revolution from this new fascist attack,” he urged.

The president said that certain television and radio stations and dailies “have given themselves the task of distorting the facts. We cannot accept, the state cannot accept that, under its very nose, they are calling for a flouting of the authorities and, worse, killing the president in order to generate chaos,” he emphasized.

Meanwhile, students from the Bolivarian University of Venezuela (UBV), as well as the various programs that have provided access to education for more than two million people, marched to Miraflores Palace in support of the government measure not to renew RCTV’s broadcasting license and, at the same time, to condemn the vandalizing actions of opposition groups.

The ABN news agency noted that students from the Armed Forces Experimental University (UNEFA) and the Rómulo Gallegos Experimental University (UNERG), the José Lorenzo Pérez University College, and those in the Robinson, Ribas and Sucre programs all took part in the march.