On the thirteenth of November, Latin American Herald Tribune reported that thirty -three people who protested against low -quality metro operation in the city of Karakas were arrested by the Venezuelan police. All detainees are accused of capturing the train.
According to the detainees, when they stood at the stop of the Propatria station, they were outraged by a forty -shore waiting for the electric train. When the train finally arrived, people who were waiting for it simply could not fit inside, so they decided to block and not let the composition further in protest.
The Ministry of Transport claims that citizens seized the train and blocked the work of the entire metro, thus paralyzing the movement of trains on the remaining three metro lines. Since it was not possible to agree on the termination of the protest campaign with the demonstrators, the police who arrived at the scene of the incident proceeded to arrest. The handcuffs were put on the people who were brewing in the subway, after which they took him to the police station.
Tens of relatives of detained demonstrators also arrived in the police. According to their statements, many of the detained people simply went to work and did not intend to take part in any protests. At the same time, the lawyer Elenis Rodriguez as a member of the Metro Users Association, in an interview with GloboVision TV, said that police officers have beaten the head of this organization, when he was trying to find out the truth of the rumors that were rudely treated with the detainees.
Current arrests are the culmination of the Venezuelan residents growing over the past few months, which, due to the strong worn out of equipment, is experiencing serious problems today, due to strong worn out of equipment. Due to its constant repair, technical services have to increase the intervals between trains of trains, as well as close part of the escalators, which leads to mass accumulations of passengers at stations. A month ago, the President of Venezuela – Hugo Chavez in an attempt to solve constantly growing problems changed the head of the subway.
In conclusion, we note that at this time in Latin America the Karakas metro takes second place in terms of workload. Every day, the subway of the Venezuelan capital transports about 1.3 million passengers, while it was originally designed for only six hundred thousand people.
