CARACAS.- The match Sell Venezuela condemned the “political persecution” of which its leader is the object, Maria Corina Machadoby the regime and urged Nicolas Maduro to leave “the electoral advantage to the point of violence and persecution”, in relation to the actions taken against Machado and members of his political organization.
“Maduro, play fair! Venezuelans chose María Corina Machado as their candidate for this year’s presidential elections and that is respected. Measure yourselves and leave the electoral advantage to the point of violence and persecution. That will not give you votes!” the leader of Vente Venezuela, Omar González, indicated on social networks.
In a video posted on Vente Venezuela’s
He recalled that Machado was elected as the “unitary” candidate of the opposition in the primaries held in October 2023, in which the politician obtained 92% of the votes in elections in which more than 2.5 million Venezuelans participated.
He added that “the Venezuelan people and the international community reject this type of maneuvers, and I call on them to be attentive to this political persecution unleashed by Nicolás Maduro’s fear of being evicted from power, as will effectively happen with María Corina Machado in 2024. with the presidential elections”.
This week, regime security agencies arrested the president of the National Federation of Education Workers (Fenatev), Víctor Venegas, when he was leading an assembly of teachers at the union’s headquarters in the state of Barinas (western part of the country). Venegas is part of the Vente Venezuela team in Barinas.
“Today Victor was kidnapped at FENATEV’s own headquarters. We demand his immediate freedom, respect for all his rights, and a total cessation of the political persecution of all Venezuelans. Those who are terrified of measuring themselves now invent conspiracies as excuses. That Let it be clear to you: we are back with free elections this year and we are going to give you a historic defeat,” Machado reacted on his social networks on the day of the arrest.
The Human Rights lawyer, Tamara Suju, indicated in X that Venegas was detained “without a court order.” Likewise, in the procedure, the members of the Bolivarian Intelligence Service (Sebin) “beat several teachers, seized computers and other work materials and stripped those present of their cell phones.”
Suju published a video of Venegas just before being arrested in which the union member assured that the only thing he has done is defend the workers. “We have not done absolutely anything wrong, the only thing we have done is defend the workers. I am not going to hide, understand, the police forces are entering, knocking down the doors of Fenatev to take me… they are going to take us kidnapped, “I ask public opinion for solidarity, respect, and I ask teachers to take to the streets to protest.”
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