More than 300 members of the Yukpa indigenous group of Venezuela have traveled across the country to seek a meeting with socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro.

The group, who traveled from their native Zulia state, arrived in Caracas on Wednesday, but the police force greeted them.

The indigenous leaders said they made the trip to protest the dire situation of their people amid Venezuela's economic collapse under socialism and Maduro's poor management of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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The Yukpa people want a meeting with Maduro to demand better access to food, water, health care, and education, according to a Breitbart report.

The socialist dictator did not straightforwardly deny the request of the Yukpa people. However, he deployed the Bolivarian National Guard (GNB) to meet the protesters after they reached the Caracas zone outside Maduro's Miraflores presidential palace.

Maduro has illegally occupied the presidential palace since January 2019, according to reports.

The GNB is infamous for repressing nearly every type of protests against Maduro since he rose to power in 2013. They allegedly beat, torture, kill and even rape peaceful protesters.

Maduro and Hugo Chávez have claimed for years to be champions of the rights of indigenous Venezuelans. Chávez is Maduro's predecessor.

The socialist leaders have created bureaucracies within the government allegedly to address indigenous affairs. It also includes assigning indigenous people new holidays and destroying statues of European icons like Christopher Columbus.

Socialism has faced years of intense rejection from the indigenous population in the country. Venezuela has a wide array of ethnic groups, mostly in the nation's west and south into the Amazon Rainforest.

The clash between Yukpa protesters and GNB on Wednesday night resulted in four Yukpa protesters injured, with one GNB hurt.

Some reports denied the allegations that the indigenous protesters caused the arrow injury of the GNB member.

After sleeping on the sidewalk on Wednesday night, the group is still in Caracas and continues to ask for a meeting with Maduro.

Caracas' streets are considered one of the world's most dangerous, with high rates of robbery, assault, and attacks by roaming socialist gangs. 

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The clash reportedly started after police pushed the crowd back from getting near the presidential estate. They also denied access to the leader of the Yukpa people, who is the cacica Sandra Peñaranda.
Peñaranda explained the situation of the people. In a voice memo, Peñaranda said they came to demand their rights in Caracas since officials don't take them "into account over there [in Zulia]," as if they were forgotten.

"So, we want the president himself to tend to us because that's enough of the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples deceiving us," Peñaranda said in a report.

She added that the guards had mistreated them, saying they were wearing uniforms, but they still assaulted a woman, who was rushed to a hospital. The woman did not receive any medication or treatment, according to Peñaranda.

The Ministry of Indigenous Peoples is a socialist bureaucratic agency responsible for working on the president's problems and many other leaders of other ethnic groups.

Peñaranda said that after the overflowing of rivers in October 2019, which killed seven children and left many of their people homeless, the regime never offered any federal aid in response.