Caracas, May 4 (EFE) .- The Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado described this Sunday as a “horrendous crime” death “in custody of the state” of Lindomar Jesús Amaro Bustamante, one of the hundreds of detainees in the country after the controversial re-election of President Nicolás Maduro in July last year.
“This is one of the most horrendous crimes that this regime has committed. That no one doubts it: this death has only one responsible: Maduro,” said the former deputy in an outer published in X.
This Sunday, the NGO Committee for the freedom of political prisoners denounced that Amaro Bustamante died “in custody of the State” while he was in a prison in the Aragua state (north).
The NGO pointed out, in X, that Amaro, who was arrested – in the context of post -election crisis in the state Cojedes (center) – by officials of the Bolivarian National Police (PNB) while heading to his home on a motorcycle, he took his life on Saturday.
Likewise, the Committee said that the “extreme suffering” of young people detained after the presidential ones, many in ICTORÓN, has “undergoing inhuman conditions, torture, suicide attempts, nervous breakdown and incommunication” has been denounced.
Given this, Machado said that all Venezuelans “tear their hearts” upon learning of “a tragedy as painful as this.”
“We ask God to receive his soul, to comfort his family and a lot of strength to each of us to stop this horror and do justice in Venezuela,” the opposition leader concluded.
On the same way, the Committee demanded this Sunday from the Venezuelan State to guarantee the integrity of all detainees, as well as investigate this death and all those that occurred in custody, “sanctioning those responsible, including the current director of the prison, Juan Carlos Quezada, indicated by relatives as one of the main responsible for the infrahuman conditions.”
Likewise, the NGO added that with this event “there are already at least six people killed in custody of the Venezuelan State between 2024 and what goes from 2025”.
Amaro’s body, the committee detailed, was transferred to Cojedes, where “he was buried expressly” this Sunday.
The organization also warned that Jhoandri Joel Silva Lara, also arrested after the presidential elections last July, “tried to commit suicide” in the same prison.
“Recently he was discharged from the Military Hospital of Maracay (Capital of Aragua) after a nervous breakdown caused by confinement, abuse and anguish for his youngest daughter,” said the Committee for the Freedom of Political Prisoners in Venezuela.
According to the NGO Criminal Forum, in the Caribbean country there are 906 people considered political prisoners, most of them after protests against the controversial official result of the presidential elections of 2024.
