Chavismo imprisons two leaders and a journalist who attended a marketing campaign occasion by the opposition Edmundo González | EUROtoday

Displeased by the surveys that give Nicols Maduro nearly 40% under the opposition candidate Edmundo González Urrutia, The Bolivarian revolution has undertaken a brand new hunt in opposition to opponents and journalists within the state Vargas, adjoining to Caracas and homeland of the previous president in cost, Juan Guaid. The three detainees participated in an occasion in Maiqueta with the opposition flag bearer.

Bolivarian brokers first detained Jeancarlos Rivas, Journalism scholar and youth supervisor Popular will, the social gathering of the previous political prisoner Leopoldo López. When the journalist Luis López went to cowl the knowledge, he was additionally captured. Hours later, the one that fell into the Chavista networks was Juan Iriarte, coordinator of Vente Venezuela (VV), Machado district, within the state of Vargas.

“My son is innocent, He is a 19 year old boy. “I solely ask that he has the precise to have the ability to defend himself,” he said. Keyla Lpez, Jeancarlos's mother.

“Stn lacking since yesterday. They have tried to search out out the place they’re and the Security forces are rebuffing their duty. “It is an unjust and arbitrary detention,” complained the ambassador Gonzlez Distance

The three detainees be a part of a protracted listing of repression, which has chosen leaders very near the opposition chief to impose terror. Already in January, three electoral command chiefs, together with Juan Freites, additionally from Vargas, have been the primary to be imprisoned. In March, two leaders of the social gathering management joined, corresponding to Henry Alviarez, nationwide coordinator, and the deputy Dignora Hernandez, liaison of the political operation, to whom was added the regional head of Barinas, cradle of the revolution.

In April it fell Victor Castillo, head of the VV command in a small city of Portuguese after a large gathering of Machado, along with an emigrant who recounted his misfortunes earlier than 1000’s of individuals at that very same occasion and a neighborhood chief of the centrist social gathering Justice first.

“Not only in Vargas, it is happening in other states. It is the demonstration of a regime that only has terror and violence left,” added the opposition chief, Mara Corina Machado.

Since the top of March, they’ve additionally remained refugees within the Embassy of Argentina in Caracas, and underneath revolutionary siege, six key leaders within the present electoral marketing campaign: Magalli Meda, head of the Command With Venezuela; Claudia Macero, Head of Communication; Humberto Villalobos, electoral liaison; Pedro Urruchurtu, liable for worldwide relations; deputy Omar Gonzalez, political secretary and advisor Fernando Martínez Mottola.

Nicols Maduro's dungeons at the moment have 278 political prisoners, together with seven with twin Spanish-Venezuelan nationality. There are 4 girls and three males, amongst which stands out Roco San Miguel, emblematic determine of Venezuelan civil society, who’s accused with false proof of taking part in an alleged army conspiracy.