The Yaracuy state is calm, after incidents of violence were recorded for three days, which left a young man dead in Yaritagua, Peña municipality, and 14 detained in various municipalities.
This Thursday, in the Yaracuyan capital, San Felipe, businesses opened normally and citizens returned to work at their regular hours. Only one National Guard picket remains in the area surrounding the Governorate.
Soledad Aguirre, owner of a newspaper and pastry kiosk in Plaza Junín de San Felipe, explained that she did not open for three days, due to the uncertainty caused by the violence generated in some sectors.
“I didn't open because I didn't want to risk it, but since this Thursday I saw that everything was normal, I decided to open again because I live from my job. Luckily, the city is calmer and things will gradually return to normal, for the good of everyone,” Aguirre stressed.
For his part, the young Juan Peñaloza from the Cocorote municipality, said that he does not support violence, "if some do not agree with the electoral results, they should resort to jurisdictional channels and make the corresponding complaints, but never generate acts of vandalism, as many do." they have done. "That's really, really bad."
For the head of the community of La Villa, Independencia municipality, Dalila Gómez, the tranquility felt in the population is because the destabilizing attempts of violent groups linked by the opposition did not prosper.
“Venezuela wants peace and that is only guaranteed by President Nicolás Maduro, who won the elections on Sunday with the support of the people. Unfortunately, part of the opposition does not want to accept it and, instead, they are seeking to destabilize the country; but they won't be able to,” he stated.
Peace, but without repression
Meanwhile, others also expressed the opinion that they support peace, but also demand that the right to dissent be respected.
“We do not agree with the way the National Electoral Council (CNE) presented the results, without even issuing official data on its page, as it has always been, to be able to verify them. That's why we went out to protest, in peace and without violence, but they are brutally repressing us and we cannot allow that," said Eduardo Martínez, a young man from the Caja de Agua sector of San Felipe.
Mariana Utrera, from the Higuerón sector of San Felipe, said that she accepts the results issued by the CNE.
"We are in a democracy, and I believe we all have the right to dissent and express ourselves," Utrera said.
