President-elect of the FCU-UCV demanded the release of ucevistas

Miguelangel Suarez, elected president of the Federation of University Centers of the Central University of Venezuela (FCU-UCV), demanded on Monday, November 18, the release of the four ucevistas detained during the electoral protests.

At a press conference, Suárez reported that professor Salvador Rivera and students Kleiber Rincón and Santiago Ortega, from the Faculty of Dentistry and the School of International Studies, respectively, were released.

“They should never have been behind bars. “We continue to demand the freedom of all political prisoners, but emphatically of our four Ucevistas, who have to return to the halls of the university, return to their sports spaces and return with each of us to the classrooms,” he said.

Rosa Cucunuba, elected vice president of the FCU-UCV, denounced that the detainees were violated due process, for which she demanded justice.

Representatives of the FCU-UCV are elected

Suárez was confirmed as president-elect of the FCU-UCV in bulletin No. 08/2024in which the Student Electoral Commission indicates that the Save the U plank obtained 5,571 votes. All for the U totaled 4,748, according to preliminary results because the space is open for challenges.

“The UCV gave a show of civility with more than 10,000 ucevistas who went to the polls to renew their student representation, something that did not happen more than 10 years ago at the university,” said Suárez.

The young man asked to investigate the acts of violence that occurred during the elections on Friday the 15thwhen unknown persons threw tear gas bombs at the Faculty of Humanities and Education.

“Here is an irreverent student movement that will never keep its mouth shut in the face of those who try to intimidate and scare us with arrests. We are not afraid to raise our voices and we are going to ask for the release of each of the political prisoners who are not with their families today,” said the elected president of the FCU-UCV.