SAN LUIS POTOSÍ, Mexico.- The president of the National Assembly of Venezuela, Jorge Rodríguez, asked that Maria Corina Machado and Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia were arrested after the mass protests that broke out in different localities on Monday, July 29, the day after the elections electoral.
“The Public Prosecutor’s Office has to act, not only against the criminals and drug addicts who give them 40 dollars to terrorize a woman. Their bosses, those who ordered them, those who paid them, have to go to jail. And when I say bosses, I mean not only María Corina Machado, who has to go to jail, I mean Edmundo González Urrutia because he is the head of the fascist conspiracy that they are trying to impose in Venezuela, that is the truth,” he said on Tuesday during a session in the National Assembly.
In a campaign to discredit and delegitimize the opposition, which has verified the minutes and claims to have the majority of votes in its favor, Rodríguez indicated that both Machado and González “knew about these plans,” referring to the protests.
“That supposed command was not a campaign command but a violent action command, trying to sow a civil war in Venezuela. That was what They tried yesterday,” he said.
For his part, the regime’s attorney general, Tarek William Saab, reported that 749 people have been detained following the “violent events” that occurred during the protests.
“They have all been handed over to the Public Prosecutor’s Office to be brought before the courts for the crimes of public incitement, incitement to hatred, as well as obstruction of public roads, resistance to authority, and in the most serious cases, terrorism. They are all being sentenced to deprivation of liberty,” he said at a press conference.
On Tuesday, dictator Nicolás Maduro also met with the authorities of the High Military Command and political structures at the Miraflores Palace in Caracas.
In a televised meeting broadcast live, Maduro blamed opposition leaders for the protests and showed alleged videos of what he called “terrorist acts,” which were nothing more than expressions of discontent after Maduro was declared the winner of an election riddled with irregularities.
“They were trained abroad to establish Comanditos for violence, revenge and fascism. It reveals the decrepit face of fascism,” he said, in line with what Rodríguez had said.
This Tuesday, the Minister of Defense in Venezuela, Vladimir Padrino López, offered statements in defense of the regime Chavista, claiming that the country was in the midst of a supposed “coup d’état plotted by the right,” in reference to the opposition.
Meanwhile, the situation in Venezuela remains tense and the protests are expected to continue for several days.
The non-governmental organization Criminal Forum announced on Tuesday that the number of deaths in Venezuela has now risen to six as a result of popular protests in response to the electoral fraud of the Chavista regime.
The NGO also verified some 132 arrests since July 29, the date on which the Venezuelan National Electoral Council (CNE), controlled by Chavez, accredited the presidential election to dictator Nicolás Maduro.
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