Delcy Rodríguez reported that on Monday the 26th she plans to hold a telephone conversation with the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk. He indicated that in that communication, he will request that through his office “the figures” of releases in Venezuela be verified.
Delcy Rodríguez assured on the afternoon of this Friday, January 23, that there have been 626 releases “of people deprived of liberty” since the process was announced, and she will ask the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights for its good offices to verify the lists.
“To date, 626 people deprived of liberty have already been released,” said Rodríguez during the installation of the “program for coexistence and peace” in the Miraflores Palace along with Chavismo actors, the former president of the Red Cross, Ricardo Cussano, and the political analyst Indira Urbaneja.
He reported that on Monday the 26th he plans to have a telephone conversation with the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk. He indicated that in that communication, he will request that through his office “the numbers of those released from prison be verified” in Venezuela.
After the announcements of “a large number” of releases on January 8, the organization Justicia, Encuentro y Perdón indicated that between that Thursday and January 21 they have managed to verify 167 released people. Meanwhile, the Venezuelan Penal Forum has reported 154 people released under restrictive precautionary measures until January 22.
According to the official, “there are anti-political sectors that have not understood the moment. There are sectors that persist in manipulating and maneuvering with figures, through lies, falsification. Likewise, he said that it is necessary to stop the “lies” by opposition sectors, whom he called “extremists.”
«There must be responsibility in the exercise of politics. Enough of lying to our people through social networks, algorithms, that what they seek is to sell death, violence… Let those sectors of anti-politics that have led extremism to applaud external aggressions, to applaud sanctions, to applaud invasions of Venezuela be isolated,” he stated.
In recent days, both Rodríguez and his brother, the president of the National Assembly, Jorge Rodríguez, accused organizations such as the Venezuelan Penal Forum of “lying” about the numbers and the process of releases, in addition to “charging” to legally represent victims.
The official leader insisted that “we are fed up with these extremist and fascist people who only seek to harm our country.”
Likewise, Rodríguez asked the president of the National Assembly to initiate a “meeting” with all the political sectors of the country, whether they are “coinciding” or “divergent” to “call for a true political dialogue, with concrete and immediate results.”
He pointed out that this political dialogue must be “Venezuelan.” “Where external orders are no longer imposed, neither from Washington, nor from Bogotá, nor from Madrid, not (…) that is a nationalized Venezuelan political dialogue.”
During the meeting in Miraflores, Rodríguez received the members of the Commission for Peace and Coexistence:
1.Ernesto Villegas (coordinator)
2.Ana María Sanjuán (executive secretary)
3.Nuramy Gutiérrez (Minister of Health)
4.Ángel Prado (Minister of Communes)
5.Larry Devoe (High Commissioner Secretary for Human Rights of Venezuela)
6.Génesis Garvett (deputy; head of the Great Young Venezuela Mission)
7.Ricardo Cusanno (former president of Fedecámaras)
8.Francisco Garcés (presidential commission for the recovery of the UCV)
9.Gerson Gómez (founder of Ridery)
10.Michael Penfold (professor and political scientist; IESA)
11.Lankin González (neighborhood movement of Venezuela)
12.Indira Urbaneja (lawyer; influencer)
13.Gustavo Canchica (justice of the peace; “voice of the 33 thousand justices of the peace”)
14.Mikea Figueroa (director of the Tiuna el Fuerte cultural park)
On the other hand, the person in charge of the national Executive asked to do a “reflection” on the justice system in the country. “I draw attention and open the floodgates to all sectors,” said Rodríguez, who proposed an “alternative criminal justice model where poverty is not penalized, where the poor are not punished for being poor.”
*Journalism in Venezuela is carried out in a hostile environment for the press with dozens of legal instruments in place to punish the word, especially the laws “against hate”, “against fascism” and “against the blockade.” This content was written taking into consideration the threats and limits that, consequently, have been imposed on the dissemination of information from within the country.
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