University students throughout Venezuela staged demonstrations Friday to repudiate the violent incidents recorded Thursday following a march and a rally outside the National Electoral Council (CNE).

In Caracas, students at the Simón Bolívar University (USB), southeast Caracas, blocked car traffic near their campus.

They reported police abuse in Thursday demonstration. On Friday, police officers tried to mediate with students to allow car traffic in the area.

In the Central University of Venezuela, north Caracas (UCV), students joined the protests. Eduardo Torres, a student at UCV, said they repudiated both the intended constitutional reform and police repression against university students in the states of Táchira, Trujillo, Mérida, and Sucre.

In northwestern Lara state, a group of medicine students at Lisandro Alvarado University blocked the Libertador Avenue. They demonstrated peacefully against the constitutional reform.

In southwestern Táchira students for the third consecutive day demonstrated to repudiate President Hugo Chávez' proposed changes to the Constitution.