US Congresswoman Maria Elvira Salazar directly blamed the government of Nicolás Maduro for the death of the former governor of Nueva Esparta and political prisoner Alfredo Diaz Figueroadied this Friday in The Helicoidaccording to complaints made by political leaders and NGOs on social networks.
Through a message published on her official account on X, the legislator stated that the opposition leader “died because the regime let him die.”
Salazar described El Helicoide as a “torture center”controlled by the vice president Delcy Rodriguezwhom he accused of being “a direct accomplice of Nicolás Maduro’s criminal apparatus.”
He rejected the narrative of New York Times which presents Rodríguez as a moderate figure within Chavismo for possible destruction and maintained that he is part of a structure “that tortures, imprisons and kills”.
It’s not diplomacy
In her message, the Republican representative from Florida highlighted that in Venezuela more than 1,000 political prisoners remain deprived of liberty in conditions that she described as “inhumane.” “Every day there is a sentence of pain, illness and death”he expressed.
Salazar He emphasized that the death of Díaz and the situation of thousands of political prisoners cannot be treated as an administrative incident or as a diplomatic conflict. “This is not a diplomatic problem. It’s a crime. And the world should treat it as such”, he pointed out.
The death of Alfredo Díaz, who had been detained for more than a year for political reasons, has revived complaints about torture, cruel treatment and lack of medical care in detention centers controlled by Sebin and other State security institutions.
Human rights organizations insist that the death of the former governor adds to a list of political prisoners who have died in official custody.
The Maduro regime has not yet issued an official version of the circumstances of his death.
