President Maduro condemned murder of Tomás Lucena

The President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, condemned on Thursday the murder of constituent Tomás Lucena.

“He was ambushed by a group of paramilitaries, murderers, assassins who,s in the style of the Colombian assassins attacked him and massacred him with bullets (…) to his family, to his comrades in Trujillo all my love, all my support, my condolences and all my pain. This boy who has become a martyr of the Venezuelan youth will have justice, we will capture his murderers”, he said.

He urged the revolutionary militancy to maintain the dreams of Lucena, to see a free and independent Homeland with the consolidation of 21st century socialism.

He denounced the US Embassy in Caracas as responsible for the conspiracy plans against Venezuela and his Government: “It is the extremist right wing led by the US Embassy that leads all conspiracy plans against the peace and stability of our beloved Venezuela”, he said.