Opponents of Nicolás Maduro reported power cuts and a “harassing attitude” at the diplomatic headquarters
Venezuela began a new police siege against the Argentine embassy in Caracas on Saturday night (23.Nov.2024), according to reports from opponents of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.
On social media, opposition members taking refuge at the diplomatic headquarters claim that the electricity has been cut and hooded agents and drones are monitoring the embassy. Since August this year, the Argentine embassy has been .
In his profile on “in an attitude of harassment”.
In a video published by Moreno, it is possible to see a Brazilian flag at the embassy and a police vehicle. “Seeing that we are making this recording [os agentes] they chose to stay glued to the wall that separates the diplomatic headquarters from the street”says the opponent in the video.
Police once again besiege the Argentine embassy, protected by Brazil, in Caracas, where 6 members of the campaign team of Edmundo González and María Corina Machado are sheltered
— Omar Gonzalez Moreno (@omargonzalez6)
The international coordinator of the opposition leader’s team, Pedro Urruchurtu, who is also at the diplomatic headquarters, wrote on his social networks that members of DAET (Directorate of Strategic and Tactical Action), the Bolivarian National Police and the Bolivarian Intelligence Service are blocking the street where the Argentine embassy is located.
Urruchurtu stated that cell phone signals in the region had been blocked and that drones were flying over the area at 7:35 pm (8:35 pm Brasília time). On his profile on X, he published a video in which it is possible to see a hooded agent wearing the uniform of the Strategic and Tactical Action Directorate of the Bolivarian National Police in front of the embassy.
Watch (16s):
URGENT!!! November 23 06:50PM / Hooded DAET officials with long weapons once again besiege the residence of the Argentine Embassy in Caracas, protected by Brazil. They surround the diplomatic headquarters and block street access.
— Peter Urruchurtu Noselli (@Urruchurtu)
A statement was issued by the Argentine government’s chancellery, which was called “acts of intimidation against people taking refuge in the Argentine embassy in Caracas, currently under the diplomatic protection of Brazil”.
“The sending of armed agents, the blocking of streets around our Embassy and other maneuvers constitute a disruption of security that must be guaranteed for diplomatic headquarters, in accordance with international law, as well as for those who have requested diplomatic asylum”stated the Argentine Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The Argentine embassy in Venezuela came under Brazilian responsibility since the country’s government of Nicolás Maduro and Javier Milei failed to recognize the results of the elections held on July 27.
VENEZUELA SOB MADURO
Venezuela lives under an autocracy headed by Nicholas Maduro61 years old. There is no freedom of the press. People can be arrested for “political crimes”. THE published in May 2021 (PDF – 179 kB) regarding the “illegitimate appointment” of the National Electoral Council. THE reported abuses in (PDF – 150 kB), (PDF – 161 kB) e (PDF – 151 kB). da Human Rights Watch in 2023 (PDF – 5 MB) states that 7.1 million Venezuelans have fled the country since 2014.
Maduro denies that the country lives under a dictatorship. He says there are regular elections and the opposition simply cannot win.
The presidential elections on July 28, 2024 are contested by the international community. The main opposition leader, MaríaCorina, in June 2023 to hold public office for 15 years. The Venezuelan Supreme the decision in January 2024. He claimed “administrative irregularities” that were allegedly committed when she was a deputy, from 2011 to 2014, and for “corruption plot” for supporting Juan Guaidó.
Corina indicated the ally Corina Yoris to compete. However, Yoris because of an alleged flaw in the electoral system. The diplomat Edmundo González the role of being the main opposition candidate.
Venezuela’s government-controlled National Electoral Council on July 28, 2024, Maduro’s victory. The organ the result on August 2, 2024, but did not publish the ballots. The Venezuelan Supreme Court of Justice, controlled by the current regime, on August 22, 2024 that the bulletins will not be released.
The Carter Center, a respected organization created by former US President USA Jimmy Carter, that the elections in Venezuela “they were not democratic”. Read the (in English – PDF – 107 kB) of the statement.
The results have subsequently been contested by the European Union and by several individual countries, such as the United States, Mexico, Argentina, Costa Rica, Chile, Ecuador, Guatemala, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Dominican Republic and Uruguay. Brazil has not yet recognized Maduro’s election in 2024, but neither does it make tougher demands like other countries that point to fraud in the process. The president (PT) did not see anything unusual in the country’s election.
Human Rights Watch criticized presidents Lula, Gustavo Petro (Colombia) and Andrés Manuel López Obrador (Mexico) in August 2024. In a letter sent to them, they stated that it was necessary for them to reconsider their positions on Venezuela and criticized the leaders’ proposals to resolve the impasse, as a general amnesty. Read the document (PDF – 2 MB).
