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Venezuelan opposition leader Corina Machado was arrested by the Chavista regime on Thursday at the end of a demonstration in Caracas, provoking a wave of indignation in South America and calls for her immediate release.
Machado had called for this demonstration, on the eve of the inauguration ceremony of the new president scheduled for tomorrow, Friday, in order to demand respect for the results of the presidential elections which resulted in the victory of Edmundo Gonzalez.
However, the head of the regime Nicolas Maduro proclaimed himself the winner of the vote and affirms that it is he who will be invested tomorrow for a third six-year term.
Several Venezuelan opposition sources indicated that Machado was “violently intercepted” by regime elements.
She reappeared this Thursday among her supporters after more than a hundred days in hiding.
Edmundo Gonzalez confirmed Machado’s kidnapping by the regime and demanded his “immediate release.” “To the security forces who kidnapped her, I say: don’t play with fire,” he wrote on his X account.
In Argentina, the government expressed its “extreme concern for the criminal attack” perpetrated by the Venezuelan regime against Machado.
Buenos Aires recalls that this attack comes one day before Edmundo Gonzalez took office, denouncing “this show of force” made by the regime against the leader of a “free and democratic Venezuela”.
In Colombia, former President Ivan Duque estimated that “the kidnapping of Machado is a new demonstration of cowardice” by the Nicolas Maduro regime, adding that “we must act immediately and the international community must seriously consider humanitarian intervention to restore democratic order” in this country.
Alvaro Uribe, another former head of state of Colombia, asked the X network if “will the United Nations be able to take measures to save María Corina Machado? »
The human rights organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) also confirmed Machado’s arrest after leaving Thursday’s demonstration.
HRW estimated that “the international community must unanimously demand his immediate release.”
