"Change" group claimed that it put 70 cardboard skeletons
through the town, but denied that they had toxic substances.
This group claims to be composed by "ordinary Venezuelan
citizens who are tired of seeing how the homeland is mislaid,
and have resolved to take action in face of inaction and resignation.
People are well acquainted with us. Such lies will not stop
us."
The group issued two communiqués and called itself a
"non-violent political challenging movement." It refused definitely
"the false, biased remarks about our skeletons to protest
the regime possibly containing some toxic or harmful substances."
They stated that the version on alleged intoxication of two
Baruta police officers was "the standard attempt by the Cuban
intelligence at neutralizing and discrediting a way of democratic,
non-violent and original fight against tyranny and as another
episode in the strategy to cause fear and suffocate any protesting
voice."
The group explained that the move was intended to show that
"now more than ever we, Venezuelan youngsters, are being the
favorite victims of a perverse cheating experiment that has
implied hunger, terror, misery, violence and death. Those
skeletons spread over Caracas streets just mirror what the
regime policies has done with Venezuelans. We should not permit
more death and misery. Venezuela demands a Change."