Hundreds of people marched on Wednesday to the Brazilian embassy in Caracas to ask the Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to intercede for the release of 2,500 political prisonersincluding more than 2,400 detained during protests over Maduro’s re-election as president.
The demonstration called by human rights activists He brought a letter to the diplomatic headquarters addressed to Lula da Silva, who together with Gustavo Petro leads the efforts to end the post-electoral crisis in Venezuela.
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“We made him aware of the conditions in which these relatives of ours are today in Venezuela“All of whose human rights are being violated,” said Diego Casanova, a relative of one of those arrested during the July protests. “They are all prisoners of conscience, none of them have committed any crime.”
Nicolas Maduro He was appointed, for the third time, president-elect of Venezuela for the period from 2024 to 2030 by the National Electoral Council (CNE)an institution that the opposition accused of serving the government.
Maduro’s declaration of victory unleashed a series of protests, even from popular sectors close to Chavismo, which were put down with tear gas and rubber bullets, and which resulted in imprisoned approximately 2,400 people, including minors.
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The Brazilian president has called Maduro’s government a “very unpleasant regime” with an “authoritarian bias” and has not recognized his victory due to the lack of a transparent scrutiny as do the United States and countries of the European Union, which is why the protesters feel affinity with him in order to achieve the release of his prisoners.
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2024-09-15 19:46:21