- The presidential campaign began with marches in Greater Caracas; the SNTP demanded guarantees for journalistic coverage during the electoral campaign; cancer patients protested in Zulia to demand medicines | Photo: Ariana Ágreda | Twitter
This Thursday, July 4, the presidential campaign in Venezuela began with marches by the ruling party and the opposition in Caracas.
The National Union of Press Workers (SNTP) demanded that the Venezuelan State and political actors guarantee journalistic coverage during the electoral campaign
In Zulia state, a group of cancer patients protested in front of the headquarters of the State’s Sole Health Authority to demand the medicines they need for their treatments.
In international news, an armed man who was prowling around the area where Argentine President Javier Milei was staying was arrested.
Below are the most important news from Thursday, July 4:
This Thursday, July 4, the opposition march called for the start of Edmundo González’s electoral campaign arrived at the Lido Center, in Chacaíto.
Groups of motorcyclists also joined the rally, some of them carrying flags of Venezuela or of the political parties Vente Venezuela and Un Nuevo Tiempo.
Citizen Carlos Rangel said in an interview with El Diario that he attended the opposition rally because he hopes that a change of government will take place in the next presidential elections.
For their part, supporters of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), supporters of the ruling party, remain on Libertador Avenue, near La Campiña, for the events of their candidate Nicolás Maduro.
The PSUV had several platforms in the city for their campaign events: on Urdaneta Avenue, specifically on the corner of Ánimas and at the height of the Llaguno bridge. In Catia there are three: at the height of El Rincón del Taxista, in front of the Alí Primera park and in Plaza Sucre.
On July 4, the SNTP demanded that the Venezuelan State and political actors guarantee journalistic coverage during the electoral campaign for the presidential elections on July 28.
“In light of the incidents documented in previous proceedings and the most recent cases of persecution, prosecution and attacks against journalists, the STNP urges both political actors and state institutions to guarantee plural, broad, timely and safe coverage for journalists and the media,” the union wrote in a statement.
Among the demands of the SNTP is the safety of journalists, which is why the institution also asked that the physical and professional integrity of journalists be protected during election coverage.
3. Cancer patients protested in Zulia to demand medicines
In Zulia state, a group of cancer patients gathered on Thursday, July 4, in front of the headquarters of the Sole Health Authority in the state to demand the medications they need for their treatments.
“We live under the will of God because we really do not receive help from anyone, much less from the pharmacy,” said Yolanda Vergara, one of the patients who was at the protest, in an interview with VPITV.
Patients say that the ampoules for their treatments can cost up to $300.
4. A section of the Trunk 9 highway between Carúpano and Güiria in Sucre collapsed
This Thursday, July 4, a section of Trunk 9 that connects Carúpano and Güiria in the state of Sucre collapsed.
Journalist Ariana Ágreda reported on her X account (formerly Twitter) that, due to the collapse of the road, traffic is disabled in both directions.
According to the Minister of Transport, Ramón Velásquez Araguayán, this situation occurred as a consequence of the rains.
Police reported on Thursday the arrest of six members of the organization of the religious ceremony in which 121 people died in a stampede in northern Indiawhile the search for others responsible for the incident continues.
“Six people, including four men and two women, have been arrested following the incident. All of them are members of the organising committee and were working as volunteers,” Inspector General of Police, Aligarh district, Shalabh Mathur, told reporters.
“When the stampede occurred, the six volunteers who are now under arrest fled the scene,” the officer said, adding that the main accused remains at large.
This is not, however, the local guru Bhole Baba, who led the prayer ceremony and was attended by some 250,000 people last Tuesday.
An armed man was arrested after he was prowling around the area where Argentine President Javier Milei announced a new school literacy plan in the northwestern province of San Juan on Thursday.
“At a checkpoint, they found a person with a 9mm pistol, with a magazine and bullets, fit for firing,” said San Juan Security Secretary Gustavo Sánchez, in statements collected by the EFE news agency on Thursday, July 4.
The 76-year-old man was arrested at one of the police checkpoints set up 100 metres from the birthplace of Argentine hero Domingo Sarmiento, where the event took place, when the metal detector tested positive.
7. Alert raised for Etna volcano in Italy due to increased activity
Italy has raised the alert for Mount Etna, the most active volcano in Europe, on the southern island of Sicily, due to lava emissions and tremors and the risk that it could quickly enter into “more vigorous activity,” although for now it remains between low and medium, Civil Protection reported.
The Department “ordered the transition of the alert level from green to yellow” and urged its teams in Sicily to take “risk-management measures, especially in relation to the presence of hikers at high altitude,” it said in a statement reported by EFE.
The yellow alert level implies low to medium eruptive activity, which is higher than the green level, which implies no or very low eruptive activity. All of this is determined by the monitoring of the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, which constantly analyses the existing danger assessments through the Etna Observatory.
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2024-07-05 02:35:17