AVN.- At several points along Libertador avenue, in Caracas, during a march convened by the opposition coalition MUD on Tuesday, violent groups physically and verbally attacked State security forces, guarding accesses to downtown Caracas.
The members of the Bolivarian National Guard (GNB) and the Bolivarian National Police (PNB), forming security lines intended to provide citizens –including demonstrators– with physical protection, were subjected to verbal abuse, taunts, physical attacks and provocations aimed at triggering violent scenes, necessary to complete the smear media campaign the national right is publicizing abroad and claiming that there has been a "rupture of the democratic order" in Venezuela.
Provocations became more intense when some officials urged opposition leaders to call for calm and non-aggression to the security forces, who fulfill their duty to serve and protect public spaces and peace. At the same time, troops received calls to remain calm and not fall into these provocations.
In an intense struggle, fueled by the aggressive speeches of some deputies and right-wing leaders present at the rally, protesters managed to break one of the security lines to move westward toward downtown, where at the same time revolutionary people were holding a rally, but met with another barrier of riot police.
At that time, some groups –mostly composed of people hiding their faces– appeared with stones and bottles to launch them to GNB troops, which used tear gas to dissuade rioters.
The riot troops acted in a coordinated way: they broke pieces of cement from public spaces to get stones, laid down branches of trees and tried to lock the street with solid waste in a matter of minutes.
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