The Venezuelan opposition leader, María Corina Machado, although she is now in “a safe place”, in her first words since her campaign team reported her arrest and subsequent release after finishing a demonstration held in Chacao, in the metropolitan area from the Venezuelan capital, Caracas.
“My heart goes out to the Venezuelan who was wounded by a gunshot when the repressive forces of the regime detained me. I am now in a safe place and with more determination than ever before to continue with you until the end!” he declared in his account of the social network X, without going into details, although he has assured that this Friday he will report on “what happened today and what is coming.”
In the same message, Machado thanked the citizens who attended the demonstrations held in the country, a few hours before the presidential investiture will be held in which Nicolás Maduro will presumably take office for the second time after the July elections. 2024.
“Venezuelans, today, the brave people showed how to overcome fear! I have never felt so proud to be Venezuelan. Thank you, thank you, to all the citizens who took to the streets to claim our victory on July 28 and collect it!” , the opposition leader celebrated.
These are Machado’s first words after his campaign team reported his arrest and subsequent release after a demonstration held in Chacao, in the metropolitan area of the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, an announcement by which the Government of Venezuela has accused the opposition of trying to orchestrate a “false positive” case.
“They immediately let it spread through the networks in which they lie that she was kidnapped, that María Corina Machado was detained,” said the Minister of the Interior, Diosdado Cabello, in a parallel rally.
“I guarantee that if the decision was to arrest her, she would already be detained. But she was begging (to be arrested) and all that information came from outside without a single reason,” Cabello reproached, who assures that the news “has already was set up” by the main opposition speakers.
Hours later, the former opposition presidential candidate, Edmundo González, celebrated that “Venezuelans are not afraid.” “For all of them and for the international community that showed its firm and forceful support. María Corina was released.”
“It filled me with pride and emotion to see the streets full of brave men and women, demanding their rights (…) They understood the strength of unity. We continue. Glory to the brave people!” he noted on social networks.
