By Luis De Jesus
Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado warned the world on Saturday about the repression of the Nicolás Maduro regime, which has increased since the presidential elections on July 28.
On her X account, the coordinator of Vente Venezuela posted a message in which she spoke of the security forces’ attack against opponents.
“Edmundo González is the elected president of Venezuela. The international community must recognize his victory and hold Maduro and his criminal regime accountable for the repression unleashed,” he wrote.
In addition to this, he spoke about one of the main issues that the different countries that support Venezuela should help address. According to Machado, “consolidating the democratic transition is the only way to stop the flight of our people and get our families back home.”
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Maduro, as repressive as Pinochet
Some local organizations such as the Venezuelan Program for Education-Action on Human Rights have issued warnings about the level of violence in the country against those who oppose Maduro.
Through X, they indicated: “Nicolás Maduro breaks historic figures of repression in Venezuela, surpassing dictatorships such as Pinochet’s in Chile. We have registered an accelerated increase in serious human rights violations committed after the elections of July 28.”
In addition, they explained that they have recorded more than 2,400 people arbitrarily detained in 16 days, 150 arrests per day, far exceeding records from the protests of 2014, 2017 and 2019.
But this figure is also another milestone. According to Provea, it represents twice as many detained-disappeared people daily in Chile during the months of September and December 1973, after Augusto Pinochet’s coup d’état.
In response to the arbitrary actions, they denounced: “The disproportionate use of force and the coordination between security forces and paramilitary groups has left 24 people dead in just 4 days, figures not seen since 2019.”
The situation in Venezuela has become difficult because those who oppose Nicolás Maduro are met with arrest or assault by security officials. This has made the issue of protests an uphill struggle, as many fear for their safety.
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