CARACAS –
The Venezuelan violinist Wuilly Arteaga is Saturday during riots in Caracas were injured to the face and to a hospital. By his instrument in the struggle to throw he grew the past few months, one of the best-known faces of the opposition movement against president Nicolás Maduro.
The coalition Democratic Unity had called for a protest march to the Supreme court, where the legal vassals of Maduro are. The riot police blocked the protesters with armoured vehicles and shields the passage. The confrontation got out of hand. Masked youth threw stones and Molotov-cocktails, overheidstroepen shots from engines with tear gas.
There were several wounded, among whom Arteaga. The 23-year-old musician became famous in Venezuela for the lines of the national anthem and other popular tunes to play. Saturday he was in the wrong place at the front. His morale appeared to be unbroken. With thick lip and gauze on the face from the bleeding but with violin and bow at the ready, let Arteaga from the hospital, a trooper said. ,,Tomorrow I’m back on the street.”