Former presidential candidate Enrique Márquez, who faced Nicolás Maduro in the 2024 presidential elections and denounced electoral fraud, received on Thursday a visit to his detention center after nine months incommunicado and isolated, reported his wife Sonia Lugo.
“Today, After nine long months of waiting and suffering, “I have been able to see my husband, Enrique Márquez, for the first time after his unjust imprisonment,” Lugo said on Márquez’s social networks.
The opponent’s wife said that the politician “is in perfect health, strong, firm and more convinced than ever of its principles and values”.
Enrique Márquez was arrested in January accused of allegedly planning a coup d’état for the 10th of that month, day of the inauguration of Maduro, who continued in power without proving that he won the elections of July 28, 2024.
Jesús Armas and Luis Somaza
The opponents Jesus Armas, former councilor of Caracas, and Luis Somaza, political activist of the Voluntad Popular party, also received visits after months of incommunicado.
Armas’ partner, Sairam Rivas, reported in X that after almost 10 months of “unjust and arbitrary detention” the former councilor was finally able to have contact with his family.
“Jesus He remains firm and solid in his convictions, with the certainty that he will emerge stronger in the midst of so much injustice,” said Rivas.
Somaza – arrested in February – received the visit of his parents “after 238 days of incommunication and isolation”, relatives said in the opponent’s X account.
On Thursday, María Costanza Cipriani, wife of lawyer Perkins Rocha – an ally of opposition leader María Corina Machado – reported that He was able to visit him after just over 13 months detained and held incommunicado and demanded that he be granted “full freedom.”
The NGO Penal Forum In Venezuela, until October 6, there were 841 political prisoners, according to a report released on Thursday.
