The Venezuelan government has authorized the release of 13 of the 815 political prisoners of the regime. The releases were arrested after having protested by the results of the controversial presidential elections of July 29 of last year, which endorsed a new triumph of Nicolás Maduro in a process that has been questioned and unknown. Among the beneficiaries are legislators and opposition leaders and a citizen activist in favor of democracy. The regime’s gesture occurs in the middle, who does not rule out any action to fight cartels in South America.
Some of the 13 releases received the benefit of probation, with which they must have a periodic presentation in the courts to verify that there is no escape risk. Five of the political prisoners, on the other hand, was commuted to their penalty for the benefit of the house by jail.
Among those released stand out Américo de Grazia, former deputy of the Radical Cause Party; Rafael Ramírez, mayor of Maracaibo since December 2021; Pedro Guanipa, politician and brother of the leaders Juan Pablo and Tomás Guanipa, legislator of the National Assembly. In addition, civil activist Gorka Carnevalli was released, who worked organizing neighbors in the area of El Hatillo, on the outskirts of Caracas.
The release information was released by the opposition leaders Henrique Capriles and Tomás Guanipa, who were elected in the May elections. Politicians have broken with their former organization, First Justice, and are now part of the opposition minority currents, who still maintain some type of interlocution with Chavismo, and are recognized as legal. Last month, the government, almost all opposition activists.
With this decision, the Miraflores Palace, the headquarters of the Maduro regime, offers concessions to decompress some measure and the Donald Trump administration. In addition, Capriles gets a new opportunity to recover credit in front of his followers.
Paradoxically, these days, Capriles, and former governor of the state of Miranda, had been the target of stark criticisms on social networks by antichavists, who question their moderate position against Maduro’s government. They also reproach his mood with the political demands and accusations of electoral fraud that on last year’s presidential elections.
Among those who receive the measure of probation, according to Carpiles, are also: Víctor Jurado, Simón Vargas, Arelis Ojeda, Mayra Castro, Diana Berrios and Margarita Assenzo. What will remain in house prison will be Nabil Maalouf, Valentín Gutiérrez, Rafael Ramírez, Pedro Guanipa and David Barroso.
“Today another step in favor of those who are behind bars. Several families hug their today again. We know that many remain and we do not forget, we continue to fight for all,” said the former presidential candidate. “We have always said it and we maintain it: we will talk to whom we have to talk so that in our Venezuela there is not a single political prisoner,” added Capriles.
As happened with, the democratic action leader released in July, there was a concern for Américo de Grazia’s health. His condition has deteriorated in government dungeons. The Committee for the Freedom of Political Prisoners, Clippve, had informed about a lung condition that worsened in the confinement of De Grazia, which was imprisoned until this weekend.
