The Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado called “Heroes” on Thursday to the more than 800 citizens who, she said, are arrested in her country for political reasons, to whom the former deputy reiterated her “infinite commitment.”
“Today I don’t want to call them political prisoners. They are our heroes, heroes prisoners, Civil and military heroes, whose stories fill us with pride and represent an example of dignity, courage, that inspire and promote us to follow every day, “Machado said in a video he published on social networks.
The antichavista leader indicated that “more than 800 Venezuelans, civil and military, (…) They are under the claws of Nicolás Maduro’s criminal regime“, who swore last January for a third consecutive mandate of six years in the country, after his questioned re -election in July 2024.
“They were kidnapped for not shutting up, for defending our country, for leading and believing in a noble deed for the freedom of Venezuela. They are parents, children, brothers, mothers, even children who have been separated from their people, isolated in torture centers and common prisons for months and even years,” said the opponent.
Machado, who also expressed his commitment to the families of these people, as well as “every Venezuelan who is sheltered,” insisted that “every day is a victory of resilience and dignity.”
“We give everything for Venezuela, everything, for your freedom and for that of each of you, our heroes,” added the leader, who is in hiding since her most recent appearance in public, on January 9, when she headed a protest in Caracas in defense of the claimed electoral triumph of Edmundo González Urrutia, after which she was retained and subsequently released.
According to a balance of the NGO Criminal Forum, published on Wednesday, In Venezuela there are 890 detainees that indicates as political prisonersamong them, five teenagers.
For its part, the Maduro administration ensures that the country is “free of political prisoners” and that those indicated as such are imprisoned by the “commission of terrible punishable acts”, statements that reject relatives, NGOs, activists and opponents.
