Seven activists from different parts of
Venezuela have come together to conduct a hunger strike in a Caracas' church
demanding the freedom of 77 political prisoners, the setting of a firm date for
legislative elections scheduled for this year and the end of censorship and
human rights abuses by the regime of President Nicólas Maduro. Julio Rivas, a
29-year-old state legislator from the state of Carabobo, is leading the
protesters, who started their fast last Wednesday in support of five jailed
opposition leaders who declared themselves on hunger strike earlier last week.
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