All the accesses to Tumeremo, including the international route that communicates to the state with Brazil, were closed this Thursday by the town of Sifontes, that continues protesting to demand the freedom of Carlos Chancellor, the mayor that chose Sunday with more the past than 65 percent of the votes. “We love our mayor! ”, the fight shout that for five days has been made feel in the Palace of Justice of Guayana City, also was listened to yesterday in Tumeremo, where young, mothers, miners and natives participated in the protest that generated kilometers of tail.

Carnation A. Rangel Jiménez
Photo William Urdaneta

Two scenes of fight the town of Sifontes has considered: the Palace of Justice of Guayana City and everything what includes/understands the Cold, 88 kilometer and the Gilded one in the Sifontes municipality. Two scenes with which they try to make pressure so that it is decided on the substitute measurement of freedom of Carlos Chancellor, the one that according to unofficial information would have been denied by judge Ely Rondón.

Alicia Hernandez, defender of Carlos Chancellor, counted in times of the night how it was let strain the information on the negation of the substitute measurement of freedom deprivation. “All the judges who are with us said it, closed the offices, evacuated the courts behind and sent the measurement. The decision comes denied, will not give the freedom him”.

It informed that Married Mariela, governing judge of the circumscription of the state Bolivar, appeared in the courts of Guayana City and mediated word neither with the deputy Medina Shepherd nor with the rest of the citizens, even though in hours into afternoon had said that it would cause the encounter.

He added that the judge who takes the cause finds of vacations, according to what they could know yesterday. “This is a ridicule for us, how it is that now it is of vacations by three days? ”, according to Hernandez today they would have to give the notification him to those who is in the outskirts of the Palace of Justice.

Yesterday, in a press conference, the governor Francisco Rangel Go'mez said that Chancellor is a delinquent, was in charge to read all the positions of which presumably he accuses to him and he indicated that yet the weight of the PSUV will give tests before justice so that the preliminary hearing is celebrated.

Coincidencialmente in afternoon the proposal of the governor found sense. According to the deputy Shepherd the unofficial Medina, Hernandez and judicial sources, the freedom measurement comes today denied and presumably the week that comes will celebrate the preliminary hearing, hearing that has been made never in these two years that Chancellor is private of freedom.

The deputy to the National Assembly misestimated the commentaries of the governor, she urged and it to that she abriera to an investigation to Marlene Vargas in the Sifontes municipality. Medina reiterated: “We will not move of here until it is not decided on Carlos, this it is the palace of the majors injustices. I have abierto several investigations to him on corruption to Rangel”.

The presents in the Palace of Justice indicated their deception by the governor. Some indicated that they voted by him to maintain loyalty to president Chávez, who continues being his top leader.

White, integral Solín of the reserve, expressed: “Fodder pitifully that Marlene Vargas is unworthy to be called revolutionary, punished we it because he behaved very badly. The red color in Sifontes became an offense, you think that we do not know who is Carlos and what we deserve ourselves? The President said that the sovereign decided and did we it”.

Tumeremo “of a touches”
From the morning of another episode it was added yesterday to the five days of protest that maintains the town of Sifontes in Guayana City. After to spend another night in watch in front of the maximum judicial being of the region, approximately to the 10:00 in the morning the residents of Tumeremo took main the 10, international route that connects to the south of the state Bolivar with Brazil.

They say that Sifontes is a calm but seasoned town and is truth, do not scrimp in the fight, much less by the mayor that chose with 65.38% of the votes. In Tumeremo, to three hours and more than 200 kilometers of Guayana City, the inhabitants were made listen. He confirmed himself what a rumor assumed. They barred the international routes around the Cold, 88 kilometer and the Gilded one. All request the same, that Carlos Chancellor is released.

We love our mayor! They shouted time and time again, was accumulated more of a kilometer of tail between gando them, buses, tourists and retailers. They have a pacific fight to recover to that they chose, that the Constitution calls “the sovereign power”. “The who best one than we for knowing who can be our mayor? ”, the citizens inquire.

They left in clear that in his manifestation there is no a leader, is no an organization, is the town expressing his will. Approximately to the 4:00 the poles were stated, the main one that give to entrance to the town of Tumeremo and the rest. According to the inhabitants of the most worrisome Tumeremo she is the one of kilometer 88, mainly lived by miners and where Chancellor devastated in votes.

Young people, children, mothers, miners and natives barred with trunks and cars the access roads. They let pass to the ambulances and basic services within which they call an act of brings back to consciousness. The demonstrators commented that the Mayorship of Sifontes was being sacked, nevertheless, according to the commander of the police the information is not certain.

Tense calm
In center of Tumeremo people are calm. The cars have dots that say “release to Chancellor”. All speak on the same, on their mayor, women comment that today Friday many will be mobilized until Guayana City to take the fight ahead.

“If that is the unique way to press then it support”, Olive tree, Yesenia Blanca and Nancy say to Jose Arevalo, residents of Tumeremo. According to Olive tree, all are kind to which can happen, the expectation is in the atmosphere. In the town some commerce did not abrieron his santamarías yesterday, fear that a wave of sackings unties.

“That people who are with Carlos in the 88 are all land”, says Olive tree talking about to the miners. “How they can call delinquent to which had the organized people who fought by the miners as much time? , it is asked.

A resident that did not want to identify itself indicated that the National Guard will not dare to coming against them, after bloody history who take in their backs, is little probable that a repression is carried out. According to the commander of the Police, until now there is no order, but it limited: “by the moments, because they are preventing a public thoroughfare”.

Scene pending

Today it could occur to know the answer the judge who takes the case, Ely Rondón. Apparently this measurement will be negative and Carlos Chancellor, elect with 65.38% of the votes, will continue private of freedom. As much the deputy Medina Shepherd as accompanies who it assures that behind this case he is Francisco Rangel Go'mez, governor of this state.

In fact, the declarations of Yelitze Santaella and Rangel Go'mez confirm the interest that has the PSUV in which it is sentenced to Chancellor. Of being thus many scenes they are put into play, mainly by the manifestations that - according to the inhabitants Sifontes- they will not pause.

The history of this municipality has demonstrated that when undertakes a protest not they stop, this time also seems to be thus. It is presumed that if Carlos Chancellor continues imprisoned, the City council of Sifontes would have to designate an authority and to call to elections in next the four months. If for that then ones there is no a firm sentence, the same scene can be repeated.

Fulfilled protest

Marks David Valverde

During afternoon of this Thursday the tension climate that from Monday has come surrounding to the Palace of Justice of Ordaz Port it increased after which one announced that the elect mayor of Sifontes, Carlos Chancellor, was going to be judged private of freedom.

Immediately the inhabitants of Tumeremo decided to close the avenues Stroll Caroní and Guayana, just around the courts, with the purpose of to express their nonconformity with the decision.

Light Maria Alvarez, president of the School of Lawyers of Guayana City, thought that the decision was taken by political pressures. “They finish saying that they are going to judge to the elect mayor with privative of freedom. With that decision they are dealing to break the harmonic game in the state Bolivar”, declared.

“This political situation of the state Bolivar is determining the decisions. If it is judged to the mayor by administrative crimes or by instigación, it is because it was legitimized. When all the town left to defend its mayor, it is because it is legitimizing the action of this political leader”, argued the lawyer.

It denounced that “this demonstrates that in Venezuela we do not have right state, and that anyone dissents of the government can be judged, and for that reason it is that this town has left to protest”.