A survivor
of Venezuela's 2014 violence spoke out Saturday amid calls from the
country's legislators to grant amnesty to those convicted of
organizing and inciting the deadly clashes.
“They
burned hospitals and health clinics,” said Oscar Carrero, a truck
driver who witnessed the events firsthand.
Dozens of
government-run health clinics were the targets of arson attacks in
February and March 2014, when anti-government demonstrators took to
the streets to demand the resignation of recently elected President
Nicolas Maduro.
Internationally,
the anti-government demonstrations were widely described as peaceful,
though Carrero's experience was anything but. During the protests,
Carrero was driving a delivery truck packed with medical supplies
when he was attacked by demonstrators.
“They
threw nails at the truck. The truck flipped over, and then they
started throwing things … rocks, mortar. Then they threw a papita,”
he told teleSUR. Papitas were improvised shrapnel bombs widely used
by the demonstrators against civilians suspected of being sympathetic
to the government.
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