The command with Venezuela warned that “every day the conditions in which it is located” are aggravated “the group of refugee opponents at the Caracas -based Argentina’s embassy. They argued that the administration of Nicolás Maduro mocks the situation of citizens, members of the María Corina Machado team, stating that the residence has all services, including electricity and water
The command with Venezuela asked the international community and the diplomatic corps accredited in the country to verify In situ The “siege” situation in which the five opponents are, part of the team of María Corina Machado, who are refugees at the headquarters of the Argentine Embassy in Caracas, after being accused of terrorists by the administration of Nicolás Maduro.
The call made this Friday, February 14. In a releasepublished in their social networks, they recalled that the opponents, Magalli Meda, Pedro Urruchurtu, Omar González, Claudia Macero and Humberto Villalobos, has been refugees for almost eleven months.
They warned that “every day the conditions in which” the group is aggravated. They argued that the administration of Nicolás Maduro mocks the situation by stating that the residence has all services, including electricity and water.
«There are already 83 days without electrical service, since Corpoelec, the state electricity company, took the fuses. To this are added the permanent access restrictions of essential services and products, such as water, medicines and food, and whose income depends on the arbitrary orders of the repressive bodies of the regime, whose troops, in addition, have the diplomatic enclosure from the last November 23, ”they said in the statement.
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They reported that opponents depend on an electrical generator enabled for emergency cases, and whose use rations to guarantee the necessary minimal connectivity, in view of the repeated refusal of restoration of the electrical service.
They added that it has been continuously denied the entrance of the tank truck that supplies the residence. “Today, turning 10 days arbitrarily, the income was denied again, while the diplomatic headquarters no longer have water,” they denounced.
They stressed that the State has also torpedoled the entry of vital medicines of the opponents. “In the last month, they counted, they were allowed,” after intense diplomatic efforts, “they said.
«This adds to the permanent intimidation that any person is a victim if they are preparing to take a product or food to the embassy. No. Conforming to not authorizing admission, they retain them for up to two hours and then return them, but not before threatening them. This makes it difficult for the disposition and feasibility of supply of inputs, given the risk it implies for those who dare to approach, ”reads the text.
The Command with Venezuela stressed that the situation to which the official residence of the Argentine embassy in Caracas is “very serious” and violation of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations and the Caracas Convention on Diplomatic Asylum.
“We have sent private communications to various members of the diplomatic corps accredited in the country so that, through their good offices, they can help find a solution, and there has been no success,” they added.
They reiterated the call to the diplomats to verify the state in which the asylees are found, “denialing the versions of the regime with which they intend to minimize the situation that, under their own orders, have created.”
They also summoned the international community to add efforts to achieve a prompt solution to the situation. Reiteron the need to grant salvoconducts as soon as possible, as international law establishes.
«We also reiterate our call to the cessation of political persecution and the liberation of all the political prisoners that exist in Venezuela. Fighting for truth and for freedom is not a crime, ”they wrote.
*Journalism in Venezuela is exercised in a hostile environment for the press with dozens of legal instruments arranged for the punishment of the word, especially the laws “against hatred”, “against fascism” and “against blockade.” This content is being published taking into account the threats and limits that, consequently, have been imposed on the dissemination of information from within the country.
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