Politics
A group of attorneys showed up on Tuesday at the headquarters of the Organization of American States (OAS) to express their support to Caracas Metropolitan Mayor Antonio Ledezma, who went on hunger strike last Friday together with several employees of the mayoralty.

Ivette Lugo, the chair of the Venezuelan Lawyers' Association, forwarded a message to OAS Secretary-General. We ask him "to apply himself to his task and send a commission to Venezuela in order to learn about what is going on. They have not paid attention and we have to stop it. International organizations are not working, but we have the duty to resort to them," she said.

Lugo asked Venezuelans to back the Caracas Metropolitan Mayor and continue in the streets "to defend and recover the rule of law that we lost long time ago."

"Whenever there is no severability or independence of the branches of the government in a country, unfortunately democracy is lost and the only way to recover it is by fighting all of us together. We need to do it. Venezuela demands this commitment from us," said Lugo during a press conference at the OAS head offices in Caracas.