The family of Rafael Tudares, son-in-law of opposition leader Edmundo González Urrutiakeeps alive the hope of seeing him free again before the end of the year. After 290 days of detention, his wife, Mariana González López, shared this Friday on the social network X a letter full of emotion and faith.
“Our children (…) are strong, they are resisting, and what they want most is to have you home again. Christmas is approaching, that time in which we celebrate the birth of the Baby Jesus, and they have already begun to write their letters. And the first thing they ask of the Baby Jesus, before anything else, is for their father to return home. May the Baby Jesus bring you back to us,” he wrote Mariana.
She explained that she wrote the letter “in the hope” that “someone with a little humanity and compassion” can get it to her husband. He said that since his arrest, which occurred on January 7, he has not had any news about his whereabouts.
Since then, he assures that he has not stopped searching for information about him. “Not a single day has passed in which I have not done something” to try to find out where he is, he said in the letter.
“I have not given up, nor am I going to give up. I am going to make it. I want you to know that we are fine. That we are at home. That we are waiting for you with open arms,” he said.
Mariana González clarifies that her husband is not politically involved
On October 11, González López sent a public letter to the Venezuelan Episcopal Conference (CEV) to ask for your support and thus verify the conditions in which your husband is. He reported that, since his arrest, he has not been able to communicate with him and that the authorities have prevented him from giving him medicine or personal hygiene items.
In June, Mariana reported that a court decided to move forward with the trial of Tudares for the alleged crimes of “forging, conspiracy, terrorism, association, legitimation and financing”.
She also reiterated that her husband has no relationship with the political tensions that arose after the fraud allegations presented by the main opposition coalition after Nicolás Maduro was proclaimed re-elected president in the July 2024 elections.
My husband has “nothing to do with that political conflict that keeps him deprived of his freedom,” she insisted.
With the arrival of Christmas getting closer, Rafael Tudares’ family keeps their faith intact and dreams of being able to hug him again under the same roof.
