By EFE
Aug 28, 2024, 10:08 PM EDT
The Venezuelan community gathered again this Wednesday in Miami-Dade County to support their country’s opposition leaders amid a mobilization in which the request for an arrest warrant against President Nicolás Maduro and even a foreign military intervention against the Chavista government began to gain strength.
Hundreds of protesters gathered in Doral, a city with a large Venezuelan population, once again expressed their support for María Corina Machado and the person they consider to be their elected president, Edmundo González Urrutia.
They are seeking to “support our colleagues there and continue to put pressure on the international community,” some of them told EFE.
Despite it being a work day after a heavy rain fell before the evening meeting, the Venezuelan diaspora gathered with banners, flags and photos of the most recent “kidnapped” by the Nicolás Maduro regime.
“We are here doing our part to continue to put pressure on the international community to take measures to enforce the election results,” said Maria Teresa Morin, coordinator abroad for the Vente de Machado party.
Protesters called on bodies such as the International Court of Justice to issue an arrest warrant against Maduro and his allies in the Venezuelan government.
“We demand the same speed that was taken in the case of (Vladimir) Putin and (Slobodan) Slobodan Milosevic,” the political leader added.
Those present responded to Machado’s call, who led a new mass rally in Caracas in the morning and managed to get Venezuelans together in various parts of the world under the slogan “Act kills a sentence.”
The slogan refers to the fact that the voting records, which declared González the winner of the presidential elections just a month ago, weigh more than the contrary ruling on the electoral results issued by the Venezuelan Supreme Court of Justice, controlled by the Chavista regime.
Covered in the Venezuelan tricolor flag with seven stars – in force until Chavismo imposed the eighth -, T-shirts with the phrase coined by Machado “until the end” and other slogans and images, as well as clothing typical of the national soccer team, those present repeated their repudiation of Maduro and denounced the growing number of political prisoners.
Carrying a photo of Perkins Rocha, the legal coordinator and representative of the Comando con Venezuela – the organization that brings together the opposition against the National Electoral Council (CNE) – who was arrested yesterday, Morín recalled that “not only are our friends in prison, but also adolescents, people with special needs and women.”
The faces of other recent political prisoners such as activist Rocío San Miguel, Williams Dávila, Humberto Villalobos, Américo de Gracia, Juan Freites, Jorge Alayeto Bigott and more, merged with banners demanding the recognition of the electoral records, verified as valid by many countries, including the United States.
The Organization for the Liberation of Venezuela is born
The Miami demonstration saw the first appearance of members of a new group identified as the Organization for the Liberation of Venezuela (OLV), formed after the elections and with the aim of achieving an international military intervention against the Chavista regime.
“We formed when we saw what the regime did after the elections and what it continues to do. They promised a bloodbath and they are delivering it,” Abelardo Achkar, one of its leaders, told EFE.
The activist said that “the Monroe Doctrine (of the United States), which says America for Americans, offers sufficient grounds to enter Venezuela legally.”
For the OLV, which is in the process of becoming legally established and says it already has chapters in Chile, Spain and other countries where there are large concentrations of Venezuelans, Maduro’s actions since the elections would already justify foreign intervention.
According to figures from human rights organizations Foro Penal and Provea, at least 27 people have died since July 29, the day after the elections.
The regime, they say, has carried out more than 2,400 arbitrary arrests and at least 50 forced disappearances. Among the political prisoners are 240 women and 114 minors.
Alicia Civita.
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