Mariana González, daughter of President -elect Edmundo González Urrutia, She denounced that her husband, Rafael Túbares, is still in forced disappearance since she was arrested nine months ago.
“Nine months without knowing absolutely anything about Rafael. My struggle is clearly human, I do not look for prominence, I am not a policy and I am not a threat to anyone, I am a Venezuelan woman fighting for the rights of her children to have her father next to her,” González said in a video published in X.
He added that for nine months his family continues with the “same elementary and basic questions without response.”
“Where is Rafael? How is Rafael? Why do they deny me? Why can’t I give him his parcel? Why can’t I send him his medicines?” He asked.
González said that it has been nine months of “a lot of pain and a lot of uncertainty,” but also of “much love” because they are a “very united” family.
“That’s why I am here and here I will continue to fight for the rights of my children and fight for the rights of my husband, who is innocent,” he added.
Rafael Tudares without access to defense
On June 23, González reported that a court decided to trial her husband under multiple positions: forge, conspiracy, terrorism, illicit association, capital legitimation and financing, without the imprisonment for the site of prison or lawyers being confirmed to date or the access of relatives or lawyers has been allowed.
Rafael Túbares was arrested three days before the swear of Nicolás Maduro For a third mandate, after an elections widely questioned by the international community and unknown by the Unitary Democratic Platform (PU), which ensures that Edmundo González Urrutia was the true winner.
Mariana González has reiterated that her husband has no relationship with the political conflict that arose after Maduro’s proclamation, and ensures that she was unfairly arrested for being a son -in -law of the opposition leader, who has been exiled in Spain since September 2024.
“My husband is innocent of the charges that are accused of it,” he said publicly, in addition to denying signs that link bonds with foreign organizations such as FBI.
Human rights defending organizations have warned that The case of Rafael Túbares Bracho fits into the forced disappearance figureThere is no official information about his whereabouts, health status or detention conditions, despite the fact that a Venezuelan court has recognized that he faces a judicial process.
