The party of anti-Chavista leader María Corina Machado, Vente Venezuela, reports 160 opposition leaders and activists detained.
The party of anti-Chavista leader María Corina Machado, Vente Venezuela (VV), denounced this Tuesday the arrest of six opposition political activistsfive of them from the state of Trujillo and one from Bolívar.
The national coordinator of the VV Human Rights Committee, Orlando Moreno told EFE that, as of 10:00 p.m. local time, they had confirmed the arrest of Darío Durán, Marianela Ojeda, Eduardo Briceño, Francisco Graterol and Robert Rea. from Trujillo, and Jeremy Santamaría, from Bolívar.
Moreno indicated that this group of anti-Chavistas, of which four are members of VV, They join Enyer Abreu Jordan, a member of the same formation in Trujillo arrested last Saturday, and Simón Vargas, arrested in the state of Táchira last January 2nd.
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After these recent arrests, the VV Human Rights Committee counts a total of 160 opposition leaders and activists detained, mainly after the presidential elections of July 28, when a crisis broke out following the proclamation of President Nicolás Maduro as the winner by the electoral body, a result denounced as “fraudulent” by the majority opposition.
This Tuesday, UN Secretary General António Guterres, said that he hopes that in Venezuela “there will be no more repression in the coming days, especially this week”, for when the presidential inauguration is scheduled, to which both Maduro and the opponent Edmundo González Urrutia, who claims victory, They assure that they will be sworn in as president for the period 2026-2031.
Furthermore, today tooMachado denounced the drone overflight at the house of his mother, Corina Pariscain Caracas, by “agents of the regime”, who, according to the former deputy, surrounded the building.
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Meanwhile, González Urrutia warned of the “kidnapping” by “hooded men” by his son-in-law Rafael Tudares, when he was on his way to take his children to school in Caracas.
At the moment, it is unknown if this event is related to the State security forces and bodies or if it is an arrest or, on the contrary, a kidnapping, as González Urrutia and his daughter Mariana González -Tudares’ wife- said. , who defended his partner’s innocence.
