Venezuela is experiencing hours of maximum tension. The opposition leader Maria Corina Machado She was detained in the town of Chacao, a municipality that belongs to the state of Miranda and the Metropolitan District of Caracas. From the leader’s entourage they assured that Venezuelan police officers “violently intercepted” the activist and currently do not “know her situation.”
In the same statements, they reported that the security forces of the regime Nicolas Maduro They would have beaten those who accompanied Machado. Former opposition presidential candidate Edmundo González Urrutia He posted a tweet on his personal X account in which he repudiates the detention of Corina Machado and alerts the Chavista regime: “As president-elect, I demand the immediate release of María Corina Machado. To the security forces that kidnapped her I say: do not play with fire.”
“I have never felt so proud in my life; Throughout Venezuela, people took to the streets,” the opposition leader declared to the media a few hours ago. Machado reappeared this Thursday in a protest in Caracas surrounded by thousands of followers, after remaining underground since last August 28, when he went out to demonstrate to claim the victory of González Urrutia in the presidential elections, whose victory was awarded to National Electoral Council (CNE) to Nicolás Maduro, without showing the relevant certifications.
Part of the Argentine leadership expressed its deep concern about the arrest of the Venezuelan opponent. “María Corina, we are not going to abandon you. Venezuela will be Free!” posted the former president Mauricio Macri. While the national deputy of the PRO, Hernan Lombardipointed out: “Maduro, you fucking tyrant: free Maria Corina right now. “You are going to pay in jail for all your crimes.”
The head of the Buenos Aires government Jorge Macri He stated: “We repudiate the kidnapping and demand the immediate release of Maria Corina Machado, deprived of her freedom by the dictatorship of Nicolás Maduro. Starting December 10, Edmundo González Urrutia He has to assume the role that Bravo Pueblo has entrusted to him and become the new and legitimate president of the Venezuelans. From the City of Buenos Aires, as we always did and always will, we reaffirm our commitment to accompany the Venezuelan people, denouncing the systematic violations of human rights and demanding justice. It is time for Venezuela to regain its freedom.”
“We cannot forgive the kidnapping of María Corina Machado by Maduro’s paramilitary forces. “All limits have been broken, it is time to put an end to Maduro,” stated the Buenos Aires legislator. Ramiro Marra. The former ambassador to the United States Diego Guelar He remarked: “They have to immediately RELEASE Maria Corina!!!!! “The SOUL and the BODY of the POPULAR RESISTANCE!!!”
For her part, Carla Angola, a Venezuelan journalist, published on her X account: “URGENT The regime kidnapped María Corina. 17 motorcycles, drones and jeep trucks shot at the motorcycles that were transporting her, knocked them down, wounded one of the motorcyclists and took him along with her.”
“They wanted to confront us and Venezuela united today and we are not afraid… Listen carefully: this is over!” the leader of Vente Venezuela exclaimed on the roof of a truck before a crowd before being kidnapped and warned: “All this strength that we have built and that grows every day prepares us to finish this final phase. Whatever they do tomorrow, they will end up burying themselves. “What they do tomorrow marks the end of the regime.”
Just days ago, in a video uploaded to social networks, Machado had declared: “If something happens to me, the instruction is very clear: no one is going to negotiate the freedom of Venezuela for my freedom.”
This Friday, Maduro will prepare to begin a third term, possibly in the middle of a ceremony empty of international leaders. Presidents like Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva from Brazil and Gustavo Petro from Colombia have rejected the electoral results and will not attend. Even Bolivia, an ally of Venezuela, has apologized for the absence of its president, Luis Arce. Although the fight of Venezuelans for democracy and the end of the regime is far from over, the Chavista government is immersed in an unprecedented crisis.
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