Venezuela: Maduro regime detains opposition mayor and three other local officials

The mayor of Maracaibo, Zulia state, Venezuela, Rafael Ramírez Colina, was captured, as well as other local authorities, including the general director of citizen security, David Barroso, reported sources from the Mayor’s Office.

Ramírez Colina and Barroso were detained in Villa Carmen, in a residence that is considered historical and cultural heritage of Maracaibo that is under the administration of the Mayor’s Office, sources said.

Likewise, two members of Ramírez Colina’s security team were detained, they added.

So far the reason for the arrests has not been clarified, which occur at a time when Venezuela is going through a political crisis unleashed after the July 28 elections, in which Nicolás Maduro was proclaimed the winner by the National Electoral Council. (CNE) Chavista, based on results that have not been published, despite what is established in the law.

The mayor, who is a member of the opposition party Primero Justicia, supported the main opposition standard bearer, Edmundo González Urrutía, in the presidential elections, which according to the Unitary Democratic Platform (PUD), won with 83.5% of the minutes it scanned. and published the anti-Chavista movement on a website.

In this sense, Ramírez Colina joined the “legitimate citizen request” that the official CNE “publish the results, table by table, center by center”, of the past elections, with the aim of “granting the confidence that the process electoral needs,” he noted on his Instagram account.

“The peaceful and civil defense of the results of July 28 with absolute transparency is the defense of the Constitution and national sovereignty, nothing and no one can oppose this principle. Only the truth will bring peace and to find it we do not have to encounter violence, in any of its expressions,” says a publication made on that social network after the presidential elections.

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