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Curiepe and defend the Constitution

"is that we wanted to take away our rights celebrate religious festival of our Patron, our tradition of drums and take away police to protect us, without even asking. This is an abuse . "

how are you phrases collected independent media social events in Curiepe when Guard National sought leave to Miranda State Police facilities have always busy, and the inhabitants of this population expressed to Mirandinos justify his public protest against what they considered an affront to rights citizens and neighbors, and an excessive use of force military.

You can not miss this done. Indeed, it spontaneous protest, and his character clearly equally popular and its rationale: defending a rights understood as inalienable, as defense was invoked as a justification for protest. addition of the values \u200b\u200b are involved in human rights. is to say, cultural freedom and religious and citizens' rights decide about protection and personal safety. And undoubtedly the defense against what is considered as an arbitrary by the injury to those rights and values. All this in a region described as "Afro Venezuelan" where popular origin is indisputable and where the feeling of freedom historically has always been present . Curiepe marked a historic event to an example of a community united in defending their fundamental rights.

was the community which reacted because an event whose consequences they foresaw who arranged the evacuation the state police forces. Indeed, first, there was a collective sense that this impersonation perceived as arbitrary against the same community and not as a political conflict between state and national authorities. Rather than defending a Governor to whom you are severing its powers there was a reaction to what the community judged as eliminating a police which was consubstantial and a lack of respect for religious tradition and cultural, when chosen for eviction day of their patron saint and folk festivals, which altered the life of society. Second, that sentiment resulted in a spontaneous and unplanned protest as a defense of the same community has called of abuse of power. is to say, the imposition of a measure of elimination of a public service, without being consulted. In other words, the defense its right to participate and intervene in decisions directly affecting a the members of the community. And thirdly, popular sentiment that more meaning than a protest against an abusive use of force armed what was at stake were their individual and collective rights that nobody can ignore them or take away.

In this vein defense of constitutional rights, safeguard the constitutional principle is that public safety in times of peace, is an activity character civilian, not military; as follows from Article 332 of the Constitution , as the replacement of police state and municipal National Guard, which is a component of the National Armed Forces, contradicts the principle of security private citizen because it confuses this security with national defense, which is a military principle. Safety first this citizen was ratified by the people in the referendum of December 2007, when he rejected the reform Articles 328 and 329 of the Constitution that intended to militarize public safety , Assigning the function itself of the Force Army National civilian police activity.

Román J. Duque Corredor

President Academy of Political and Social Sciences