Through a statement titled For freedom and democracy in Venezuelathe Board of Directors of the Congress of the Republic —who presides Eduardo Salhuana– expressed his strong rejection of the continuous violations of fundamental freedoms in that country and “the farce of the swearing-in of Nicolás Maduro as president of Venezuela, consummating an electoral fraud denounced by the international community.”
In the document, the congressional leadership also condemned the kidnapping of opposition leader María Corina Machado after a demonstration in the city of Caracas, to later be released with the obvious purpose of intimidating and dispersing the democratic opposition.
“We demand that the safety of all Venezuelan opposition leaders and the full exercise of their citizen rights be guaranteed,” he adds.
Also, the Board requested guarantees for the inauguration of the elected president Edmundo González Urrutia, “legitimate winner of the general elections of July 28 of last year.”
“We demand the release of the political prisoners that the dictatorship of Nicolás Maduro keeps in detention and torture centers and we call on the international community to remain on alert in the face of the violence and repression that the Chavista regime exercises against opposition leaders and citizens in general,” he said.
In this context, he also expressed his conviction that “the Chavista dictatorship will be defeated because it has only brought poverty to millions of human beings”; all this “in order to recover the path towards democracy, freedom and development.”
The statement is signed by the Board of Directors of Parliament — which, in addition to Salhuana, includes Patricia Juárez (Fuerza Popular), Waldemar Cerrón (Perú Libre) and Alejandro Cavero (Avanza País, as first, second and third vice presidents).
In the case of Waldemar Cerrón, it is remembered, he is a representative of Perú Libre, a group that was invited to the illegal takeover of Ripe. According to the spokesperson for the bloc, Flavio Cruz, one of the members of the delegation that should have traveled to Venezuela for this purpose is María Aguero, but she has not given further information on the matter and has limited herself to reposting comments supporting the Venezuelan dictator of his party and its leader Vladimir Cerrón, the latter from hiding.
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