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The United States demanded this Thursday “the right Maria Karina Machado speak freely” in Venezuela after her team said the leader of the opposition to dictator Nicolas Maduro was “violently detained” before being released, a White House spokesman said.
“We condemned and continue to publicly condemn Maduro and his representatives for trying to intimidate the democratic opposition,” he told the news agency. AFP a spokesman for the National Security Council, who wished to remain anonymous.
María Karina Machado took part in an anti-Maduro protest this Thursday, ahead of the inauguration of the Chavista leader, who was declared the winner of July’s elections by the National Electoral Council (CNE) amid complaints fraud.
As she was leaving a demonstration in Caracas, Machado was “intercepted and knocked off the motorcycle she was riding,” her political team said on the X social network.
“As a result, the firearm went off. They took her by force. During the period of his abduction She was forced to record several videos and then released“, he adds.
The outgoing president’s government joe biden, report a “campaign of intimidation of the democratic opposition”.
Since Tuesday evening, there have been a wave of reports of arrests in Venezuela, at least a dozen people have been arrested.
These “arrests, repression and intimidation (…) they cannot hide this Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia “He is the real winner of the July 28 election,” said the White House press secretary.
Washington recognizes González Urrutia, who went into exile in Spain after an arrest warrant was issued against him, as president-elect and wants to return to the country to take the oath.
Biden hosted him at the White House this week to show his support.
Dressed in white, carrying a flag and riding a truck, Machado, 57, made another appearance after her last public appearance on Aug. 28, a month after the election.
“She was intercepted and knocked off the motorcycle she was riding. As a result, the firearm went off. They took her by force. During the period of her abduction, she was forced to record several videos and then released,” according to a post by her political team on social network X, which said the opponent would speak “in the next few hours.”
Minister of Internal Affairs, Hair by Diosdadocalled the story “a fabrication, a lie.” “If a decision had been made to detain her, she would have been detained already,” Cabela said. “They didn’t move people, they needed a spark, and they said, the best spark is the arrest of Maria Karina Machado.” “She’s mad for us to capture her.”he added.
The video, in which Machado says she is “safe” and “safe,” has circulated in Chavista media and on the Telegram accounts of high-ranking officials, such as the vice president. Delsey Rodriguez and Minister of Information Freddy Sañez.
“Very seriously! “The fact that María Corina is free does not diminish the fact that what happened was that she was abducted under conditions of violence,” condemned González Urrutia, who previously warned the authorities: “Don’t play with fire” when he demanded his release.
(With information from AFP)
