On Thursday, the opposition denounced the arrest of two leaders: Williams Dávila and Américo de Grazia.
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About the first, Vente Venezuela said: “The regime arrests Williams Dávila Barrios, Deputy to the AN for the Democratic Action Party”. He added: “Williams was in Plaza Los Palos Grandes, in Caracas. His whereabouts are still unknown.”
While in the case of Americo de Graziahis daughter assured that he was at the headquarters of the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service. From that moment on, On Wednesday at noon, he lost communication with De Graziawho “did not arrive” at “the place where he was staying.”
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Maduro’s government assures ambassadors that opposition electoral records are false
The Venezuelan government denounced to ambassadors on Thursday that the electoral records released by anti-Chavez supporters are false and are intended to “ignore the results” of the presidential elections, in which the electoral body ratified Nicolás Maduro as the winner, a victory questioned inside and outside the country.
The largest opposition coalition, the Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD), published on a website “83.5%” of the electoral records that, it insists, show the victory of its candidate, Edmundo González Urrutia, something that the Venezuelan government dismisses as “forged documents.”
According to a press release from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Vice President Delcy Rodríguez stated that the domain of this website “was purchased one day before the elections and is not an official mechanism to proclaim elected officials,” which usurps “the functions of the National Electoral Council (CNE)” to “generate confusion about the real results of the elections.”
Venezuelans demand freedom for ‘political prisoners’ in context of post-election crisis
Hundreds of Venezuelans demonstrated in Caracas on Thursday for the release of political prisoners and to reject the “repression” they said was unleashed by protests against the official result of the July 28 presidential election, which gave victory to President Nicolás Maduro, a move that has been questioned inside and outside the country.
‘Freedom and peace’ was written in the centre of the Caracas square where the protesters gathered, who stood around the two words made of lit candles, in an activity called by the main opposition coalition, the Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD), which accuses the government of “persecuting” those who claim that there was electoral fraud.
There are ‘2,500 political prisoners’, the vast majority detained since July 29
During the demonstration, the legal coordinator of the NGO Provea, Marino Alvarado, indicated that there are “2,500 political prisoners,” the vast majority detained since July 29, and noted that “absolutely all of them are being subjected to the anti-terrorism law” that provides for sentences of up to 30 years in prison, the maximum in the country.
With information from EFE*
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