The opponent Edmundo González Urrutia assured that his son-in-law, Rafael Tudares, is deteriorated, physically and emotionally after he has been subjected to prolonged detention and forced disappearance by Venezuelan security forces.
According to a note from EFEthe daughter of the opposition leader, Mariana González, could see to her husband, of whom the whereabouts were unknown, for about 25 minutesafter more than a year of incommunicado detention, in the Rodro I prison, in the state of Miranda (north, near Caracas).
“Yesterday we learned, after more than a year of silence and denials, that Rafael Tudares is alive. Mariana, his wife, my daughter, was able to see him for just 25 minutes, separated by glass, after 374 days without hearing his voice or having a single certainty. “That meeting confirmed that Rafael has been subjected to arbitrary detention and prolonged forced disappearance,” said the opposition leader exiled in Spain in a message on his X account.
González Urrutia assured that Tudares was “visibly deteriorated, physically and emotionally, after more than a year of incommunication and separation from their children” and asked Let your son-in-law come home since he is innocent.
“Justice cannot be built on suffering, far from it, about the denial of fundamental rights. To all the families who wait today, who resist and who survive the absence. Their pain is real, their claim is fair and they are not alone,” he insisted.
Her daughter explained, after the meeting in which they were able to see each other and chat through armored glass, that her husband was quite affected physically and emotionally, and asked that the incident stop. cruelty against him.
