Published at: 02/08/2024 10:03 PM

A demonstration of citizenship, love for the Fatherland and attachment to the city of Caracas on the part of the hundreds of workers belonging to the Popular Street Economy sector, who despite fascist threats went out to work this Thursday after some excesses caused by right-wing extremists in some communities in Caracas.

Alexander Guerrero, a hot dog vendor for 22 years in the Balconcito sector near Baralt Avenue, said he does not support guarimbas because he believes that this type of vandalism and violence is holding back the country.

“It's better to work because the country is moving forward, a resounding no to guarimba and a thousand votes for peace,” said this entrepreneur for whom the country regains calm and tranquility this Thursday.

María Vilora, a street merchant, who works in the immediate vicinity of Plaza Venezuela, rejected any type of protest that has violence as its flag.

“We reject guarimbas because that is the past, going back to the times of violence, we go out to the streets but to work hard for the country and we call for peace because we are all brothers and we are tired of problems,” he said.

Carlos Ardías, who is identified with the “potato eater” trailer, said that he works on the so-called “hunger street”, in Plaza Venezuela, El Recreo parish in the Libertador municipality, from where he called on the entire population to go out to work to seek personal and country progress.

“We call on all young people and the elderly to go out to work, not to let themselves be thrown in for a hare, or to be deceived, what we want is to work and move forward because this is a beautiful country and here in Venezuela the fascist right will never govern again,” he said.

José Alfredo Osorio, another of the “fast food” merchants in the center of the capital city, stressed that one of the sectors that first went to work were the so-called hot dogs.

He criticized those who went out to burn pharmacies and hospitals and harm public spaces in the city. “Protest but civically and to the rest of the citizens to work because that is what the country needs,” he said.

Jesús González, a seller of chocolate chips for 38 years on the boulevard of Sabana Grande, lamented that there are people who want everything in Venezuela to be privatized as the right wing aspires.

“They want the people to support them and what they are offering is to privatize everything, education, health, culture, State companies that are benefits that Venezuelans of several generations have fought for in order to hand them over to the gringos so that they can take everything and leave us nothing,” he said.

Mazo News Team