The Foreign Ministry issued a joint statement requesting the immediate release of Rocío San Miguel and insisted on the call for “transparent elections.”
Uruguay expressed his “deep concern” about the democratic situation in Venezuela, after the “arbitrary detention” in the last hours of the human rights activist Rocío San Miguel, by issuing a joint statement with other countries in the region.
He Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Mrree) made a “strong appeal” to the authorities of the country that leads Nicolas Maduro to “immediately release her,” while urging that a “elections transparent and free” in the short term, after the president Luis Lacalle Pou ratified that in that country “it breaks your eyes” that there is “a dictatorship”.
In the statement, published jointly with the governments of Argentina, Costa Rica, Ecuador and Paraguay, The Foreign Ministry expressed “its deep concern about the arbitrary detention of human rights activist Rocío San Miguel,” while making “a strong call to the Venezuelan authorities to immediately release her and drop the charges.”
At the same time, the Executive rejected the recent measures against Technical Advisory Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Venezuela and, together with the other nations, demanded “full respect for human rights, the validity of the rule of law and the calling of transparent, free, democratic and competitive elections without proscriptions of any kind.”
The arrest of the activist and Venezuela’s response
San Miguel, president of the organization Citizen Control, She was detained last Friday, February 9, when she was trying to leave the country, based on investigations being carried out by the government of that country in relation to the cases of conspiracy reported by Ripe on January 15, during the presentation of memory and account at the National Assembly, for which she was arrested María Corina Machado, historic anti-Chavista leader.
In the last few hours, the Venezuelan administration decided to suspend the activities of the technical advisory office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and gave a period of 72 hours for the personnel affected by that agency to leave the country, in response to the position that that office of the UN after what happened with the activist.
Maduro justified his decision in the “inappropriate role” he plays in Caracas that dependency of the United Nations. “Far from showing it as an impartial entity, it has led it to become the private law firm of the group of coup plotters and terrorists who permanently conspire against the country,” questioned the Venezuelan government.
Source: Ambito
