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CARACAS, Monday July 06, 2009 | Update
Caracas Mayor continues hunger strike
Workers of the Caracas Metropolitan Mayoralty will continue to protest this week
Fifteen people have joined the opposition mayor's protest at the headquarters of the Organization of American States (Photo: Kisaí Mendoza)
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Last weekend a group of politicians, scholars, workers and citizens visited Avenue Orinoco, in Las Mercedes, southeast Caracas, to support Metropolitan Mayor Antonio Ledezma, who started a hunger strike on July 3 at the Caracas office of the Organization of American States (OAS).
The area around the Arbicenter building, where the headquarters of the hemispheric organization is located, has been cordoned off and there are police officers of PoliBaruta, Caracas Metropolitan Police and the metropolitan watchmen.
The hunger strike staged by the metropolitan mayor of Caracas has been joined by workers from the mayoralty, who are requesting the payment of their salaries, and regular citizens.
Mitzy Capriles, the wife of Antonio Ledezma said that the mayor, who is inside the OAS office, has not received any saline solution and has drunk water only.
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