The Venezuelan opposition denounced this Sunday the arrest of two members of the security team of the anti-Chavista leader María Corina Machado, including her “chief of protection”, Milciades Ávila, who had already been imprisoned on July 17 and released 36 hours later, with precautionary measures.
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“Milciades Ávila and Edwin Moya, members of María Corina Machado’s security team, were kidnapped this weekend by members of the regime’s repressive forces,” stated the Human Rights Committee of the Vente Venezuela (VV) party, a formation led by Machado, on the social network
The committee indicated that it does not know the whereabouts of Ávila and Moya, which is why it demanded to know where they are and their “immediate freedom.”
“This new attack is part of the false file put together by the ruling party against all political dissidence and occurs just after recent statements by the regime’s own spokespersons about Machado’s alleged flight from the country,” he added.
This new attack is part of the false file put together by the ruling party against all political dissidence.
He maintained that this is, “once again, a scenario of misinformation to further encircle the leader and demoralize the country.”
Meantime, Machado said, on the same social network, that he will not rest until he achieves the release of Ávila and Moya.
“I reiterate to their children and partners that they should feel very proud of them and I assure them that we will not rest until we bring them back free,” said the former deputy.
Likewise, he said that “(Nicolás) Maduro is wrong if he believes that with this persecution of innocent Venezuelans” he is going to stop it.
For her part, the president of the Primero Justicia political party, María Beatriz Martínez, said that these arrests do not change “the truth that they try to silence.”
“Two months ago we won the elections cleanly, the world knows it and with repression and persecution, Maduro only manages to sink further,” he added in of July to the president.
Likewise, former deputy Juan Pablo Guanipa indicated, on the same social network, that Ávila and Moya are “two Venezuelans committed to their country who should not be kidnapped for even a second.”
On July 17, Ávila was arrested when he was in his home, according to Vente Venezuela.
Machado’s security chief was released after more than 36 hours in detention, with a “precautionary measure of appearance in court” every 30 days, according to the information of the former deputy.
On Saturday, Maduro assured that Machado is preparing to leave the Caribbean nation, because – he said – the anti-Chavistas “are cowards.”
“Today I tell you, the supposed queen bee is left without a bee and is preparing Gucci suitcases (…) she knows what I am saying and ‘La Sayona’ (in reference to Machado) is preparing to leave, compadre, too I’m saying it, they are cowards,” said the president at the demonstration called to celebrate his controversial re-election in the state of La Guaira (north).
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