Venezuelan opposition chief María Corina Machado claimed Saturday that the regime of President Nicolás Maduro has kidnapped her marketing campaign supervisor Emill Brandt within the State of Barinas and that one other of her marketing campaign managers has been kidnapped and is presently being held in El Helicoide, calling the jail “the most important torture middle in Latin America.”
Members of the Bolivarian Intelligence Service, the key service of Maduro’s authorities, detained Brandt, who can also be a member of the Vente Venezuela occasion, on Friday night time. The authorities didn’t give a motive for the motion, which is the fourth in as many weeks to focus on regional members of Machado’s political group. Luis Camacaro, Machado’s marketing campaign supervisor within the State of Yaracuy, Guillermo López, marketing campaign supervisor for the State of Trujillo and Juan Freites, marketing campaign supervisor for the State of Vargas, have been all detained on January 23 by the Venezuelan police with out said expenses.
Machado said on her X account (previously Twitter) that the actions of the Maduro authorities represent “one other violation of the already trampled Barbados Agreement,” signed on October 17, 2023, by representatives of the Venezuelan authorities and opposition events to advertise political rights and electoral ensures for this 12 months’s presidential elections. Machado referred to as for “a powerful response from all nationwide and worldwide actors in help of a real presidential election in Venezuela.”
In January, the Venezuelan Supreme Courtroom disqualified Machado from holding public workplace for fifteen years, starting September 16, 2021, citing her alleged involvement in corruption throughout the “interim authorities” of Juan Guaidó. In a press launch, the Group of American States (OAS) stated that Machado’s disqualification “as soon as once more eliminates the potential of free, honest and clear elections in Venezuela.” As well as, the US State Division warned about the potential of reinstating sanctions towards Venezuela in response to the ruling.
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