After the escape of the five refugees at the Argentine Embassy in Caracas, belonging to the María Corina Machado team, from various parts of the country it is reported The disappearance or detention of social leaders or activists related to the Venezuelan opposition. The attack accounts for several professionals, including journalists, teachers, doctors, in addition to the pressure against organizations of relatives of political prisoners.
On Tuesday, May 6, in the Carabobo state, Venezuelan regime officials took the journalist and political activist Mario Chávez Cohenas well as his mother. She was released hours later.
Chávez Cohenwho is also a university professor and militant of the Democratic Center Party, remains in Forced disappearance.
Rafael Antonio Torres He is Professor and Secretary of Training of the Venezuela Project Party in the Miranda state. They arrested him on Monday, May 5 at night, when officials of the Bolivarian Intelligence Service (Sebin) arrived at his home, in the Guaicaipuro municipality of the Miranda state, where he was hit strongly before taking him detained. So far it is in forced disappearance.
The lawyer Carrero Merlinawhich is identified as “Peace Constructora”, is an active leader; It was arrested on May 7, at 2 in the afternoon, in San Cristóbal, Táchira State, by officials, without any order or at least they did not present it. She was the administrator of a WhatsApp group from where they disseminated activities in defense of human rights.
Carrero is a social leader, coordinator in the Táchira of the platform coordinated by Benigno Alarcón nationwide called Create Citizen Alliance. Since I was at the Carrero University he participated with First justice In university activities. He worked at the women’s Tachirense Institute. Carrero is a trainer of civic and peaceful activities. The lawyer and leader is in forced disappearance.
Another detainee is a legitimate democratic leader, Ángel Lugowho belonged to the formation group of that political organization in the Lara state, whose card was taken by the Supreme Court of Justice.
The same day, but two hours after Carrero’s arrest, Men dressed in black intercepted Dr. Omar Vergel in front of his residence in San Cristóbalignoring the reason that keeps him in forced disappearance.
Vergel is a medical specialist in rehabilitation and physical medicine, who in addition to being a recognized physiatrist of the border state of Táchira, is part of the medical organization United Chapter Táchira, a NGO that arises at the national level as a result of the protest for the lack of medical and surgical supplies in the ambulators and hospitals, as well as the application for labor demands.
United Physicians He demanded that the State security agencies clarify as soon as possible, the reason why Dr. Vergel would have been arrested, adding that “the physical and psychological integrity of the doctor is respected.
Another detainee is a legitimate democratic leader, Ángel Lugowho belonged to the formation group of that political organization in the Lara state, whose card was taken by the Supreme Court of Justice.
The Committee for the Freedom of Political Prisoners (CLIPPVE), one of the organizations that has sustained activities to denounce what is happening with political prisoners and that today concludes the day “Global Route for Justice”, visiting the headquarters of the European Union.
-“In Caracas, mothers, family, friends and defenders, we will go to the diplomatic headquarters to request: protection of detained European citizens, diplomatic coordination to demand freedom of all political prisoners and international observation about conditions of detention and solidarity with the victims.”
The organization denounced on Thursday, May 8 that they intend to criminalize Clippve Pro that they will not intimidate them and are not going to stop. “We are families that with dignity and pain we raise our voice because we love freedom, justice and life. What we do is not a crime: it is our right. And even if they try to divide, lie or sow fear, we remain firmer than ever.”
They added that “the route for freedom is now global, because bars do not stop love, nor threats turn off the truth. We are still standing, resisting and dreaming of a country without repression.”
Andreína Baduelone of the most visible faces of the Committee of Family for the freedom of political prison explanation”.
She points out that this happens just after the previous night, the Minister of the Interior, Diosdado Cabello“Publicly criminalize the Committee of Family members of political prisoners and one of our members in the program with the deck giving, from where the persecution and imprisonment of hundreds of social and political leaders has been promoted.”
Baduel recalled that before, on December 16, he received a summons to be presented before the Public Ministry, “under the argument of an alleged investigation to the telephone lines of the committee.”
The outraged young woman added “has not enough for my father, Raúl Isaías Baduelhe has died in state custody due to lack of medical care. It is not enough for my brother, Josnars baduelis currently being held at Rodeo I, a center of torture, isolated and incommunicado with more than 102 days without visits, in serious health conditions as a result of the torture suffered and the lack of medical care ”.
“Now they also want to chase me, besiege my home and continue intimidating my whole family. These actions are a sign that true terrorism is not on the side of the relatives, but of those who accuse us,” he concluded by saying.
Also the organization Mothers in Defense of Truthwhich is born after the July 28 elections, as a product of the massive arrests by the police and intelligence agencies, against those who protested for the fraud committed by the National Electoral Council (CNE), denounces the attack suffered to their Instagram account, precisely when they started the campaign “Mother’s Day without children prisoner.”
Given the proximity of Mother’s Day in Venezuela, which will be held on Sunday, May 11, women who integrate the group want to sensitize the authorities so that their children are released, adding that they will continue “spreading the truth of all possible ways in a choir of voices from many corners of the national territory, until the freedom of our children achieved,” they said through a statement.
They explained that what has moved them to fight the fight they anticipate, making a “completely self -managed effort”, is “the truth and the deep love for our relatives prisoners”, so they made known “the tragic news of the death of the young man’s death Lindomar Bustlewho was unfairly stopped in bump. ”
“A few days later the account began to experience restrictions on its operation and this Wednesday, May 7, in a matter of hours, we observed an unusual increase in followers that we suspect are false accounts (this being a common pattern of attack on accounts), and we were unable to make publications, just at the time we began the campaign of the Mother’s Day,” the organization said in the statement.
