The Venezuelan authorities have allowed, until this Sunday, the release of 48 political prisoners, almost all opposition activists, as part of the political agreement created with the United States. This negotiation that made possible, last Friday, arrested in Venezuela by 252 immigrants locked in El Salvador in the megacárcel built by Nayib Bukele
Among the beneficiaries with the precautionary measure, William Dávila, national leader of the Democratic Action Party, which presents health breaks; the regional political leaders Gregorio Graterol and Carlos Chancellor; and the civil society activist, Ricardo Estévez. Diosdado Cabello, Minister of the Interior and Justice of Venezuela, said that and denied that this measure is the consequence of negotiations with the United States. “Everyone would have left the same,” he said, then stating that “they will surely leave more.” The departure of these political prisoners has developed in the midst of a remarkable discretion. Only in social networks the clamor and expectation of their relatives and relatives have been collected. The Venezuelan Foreign Ministry had argued that these activists were prosecuted for
The Government of Nicolás Maduro, through its spokesmen, has been careful to give all possible publicity at the return of Venezuelan prisoners who were in the center of confinement against terrorism (CECOT), near San Salvador, deported from the United States. All accused – the vast majority of the time, without evidence – of being part of
The official media have emphasized the negotiating capacities of Nicolás Maduro-with phrases such as “Thank you, President Maduro, in the name of the Venezuelan family”-. At the Maiquetía International Airport, which serves Caracas, the country’s police and military authorities organized an act to receive those deported with a festive and warm tone.
Alfredo Romero, director of the Criminal Forum NGO, reported that, from all political prisoners released on this occasion, nine come from the El Helicoid prison, in Caracas; Marcorón 29, in the Aragua state; eight from El Rodeo, in Miranda state; and two regional police commands in the cities of Maturín and San Juan de los Morros. At a press conference offered at Simón Bolívar airport, in Maiquetía, Cabello commented that decisions about these political prisoners were taken from the efforts and intermediation of the
“Zapatero has always been aware of the peace and tranquility of Venezuela. None of those people who are leaving jail are chest children, they know that. They know what they were accused and why they were accused. It is a measure that seeks to strengthen peace.” While this was happening, in the last hours the student leader Simón Bolívar Obregón, activist of the Federation of University Centers of the Central University of Venezuela, of agreements with the complaints of the NGO Justice Meeting and Forgiveness, JEP, was arrested in his home. Bolívar Obregón had questioned the official maneuvers against university autonomy.
“Repression does not generate conditions so that Venezuela can have institutional development, so that there can be economic and social development,” said Marino Alvarado, of the NGO provides, in a protest of relatives of political prisoners in Caracas last week.
The Vente Venezuela party also denounced the very recent arrest of Manuel Enrique Ferreira, head of the Machado and Edmundo González Urrutia team in Lara state. “Subjects without identification were taken by force and without a court order. We do not know his whereabouts,” says the statement on social networks. The formation of the training ensures that, with this judicial measure, “there are already seven command members arbitrarily detained, and more than 12 people in the last hours.” Venezuela remains, together with Cuba, the country with the largest number of political prisoners in America, with just over 900.
