The Democratic Unitary Platform (PU) requested this Sunday, October 5, the liberation of political prisoners in the country before Canonization act Of those who will be the first two Venezuelan saints, the doctor José Gregorio Hernández and the religious Carmen Rendiles, on October 19.
Through a video, shared in X, several members of the POD requested that the canonization be “A space for unity and for the freedom of political prisoners”which are 838 according to the Criminal Forum.
“From the one we lift our voice for the freedom of political prisoners and we join the clamor of family members and the Venezuelan people,” said political activists, including Delsa Solórzano and María Beatriz Martínez.
Chavista harassment
For its part, the Committee for the Freedom of Political Prisoners (CLIPPVE) requested a canonization without political prisoners and requested the Pope Leo XIV that “elevates his solidarity voice to the injustice that the most vulnerable in Venezuela suffers today.”
The Clippve summoned this Sunday to a prayer in several states of Venezuela and countries to ask future Venezuelan saints for the liberation of political prisoners.
In Caracas, the NGO denounced the “harassment” of people who identified as “You affect Chavism”who, he said, tried to prevent the activity in a chapel of the west of the city, although it could finally be carried out.
Last September, the opposition leader María Corina Machado He asked Leo XIV to intercede for political prisoners in the South American country, so that they are released before the canonization of José Gregorio Hernández and Carmen Rendiles.
Both the Government and the Prosecutor’s Office deny that in the country there are people detained for political reasons and ensure that these are citizens who committed crimes, an affirmation that several NGOs and opposition leaders reject.
