Student leaders Stalin González and Freddy Guevara met
Tuesday with Minister of the Interior Pedro Carreño and
Libertador Municipality Mayor Freddy Bernal to refine the
details of their march next November 7 from the campus of
the Central University of Venezuela to the Supreme Tribunal
of Justice (TSJ), downtown Caracas, to reject the changes
to the Constitution proposed by President Hugo Chávez.
Following the meeting, they clarified they told the officials
their goal is advocating their political rights.
"The only thing we are trying to do is exercising our political
rights," González, a student at the Central University
of Venezuela (UCV), told reporters.
He insisted that the demonstrations the university students
have staged have never been violent.
Meanwhile, Freddy Guevara, a student leader at the Andrés
Bello Catholic University, said they asked the Ministry of
the Interior and Justice to ensure that people planning to
disturb their demonstration will be allowed in their rallies.
He clarified they have no intention to encourage a coup d'etat,
but to make the Venezuelan people know the proposed reform.