The Argentine Organization of Plaza de Mayo asked Nicolás Maduro to rectify his words “and offer all the support of the State to the Mothers Committee in Defense of Truth to achieve justice in their cases.” The official pointed to the group of mothers as a “false committee” that “defends terrorists”
The Argentine organization of Plaza de Mayo asked to stop the “discredit campaign” that, he said, has been unleashed by Nicolás Maduro and other senior Venezuelan officials against the Mothers Committee in Defense of Truth, an association of relatives that presses for the freedom of post -election political prisoners.
In A statementthe grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo expressed their solidarity with the committee “which in recent days has suffered aggressions”, in reference to the aggressions of which relatives were victims by collective groups on the outskirts of the Supreme Court of Venezuelan justice on August 8.
They also rejected the arbitrary arrest of the human rights defender Martha Lía Grajales, who has accompanied the group of mothers, sisters, daughters or grandmothers, while expressed concern about the “discredit campaign from the highest government level towards them. On 13.08.25, President Nicolás Maduro publicly pointed them out of being a false committee and defending terrorists ».
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The Argentine organization recalled that the Mothers Committee is composed of more than 150 women from popular sectors “whose children were arrested arbitrarily, during the post -election protests that took place in Venezuela in July and August 2024”.
In addition, they consider them as “a genuine expression of popular organization at the same time as a historical expression of how women organize us around the search for justice for our relatives.”
“Throughout this year this committee has mobilized peacefully to demand that the authorities review their causes and the granting of freedom to their sons and daughters, given the obvious lack of evidence against them,” they said.
The grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo asked Nicolás Maduro to rectify their words «and offer all the support of the State to the Mothers Committee in Defense of Truth to achieve justice in their cases. We are sure that these statements do not correspond to the principles that guide the Venezuelan government ».
They also demanded from journalists “to hold misinformation campaigns” about the Mothers Committee “to act ethics and cease these campaigns.”
*Journalism in Venezuela is exercised in a hostile environment for the press with dozens of legal instruments arranged for the punishment of the word, especially the laws “against hatred”, “against fascism” and “against 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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