The Brazilian president has already branded Maduro’s government as a “very unpleasant regime” with an “authoritarian bias.” The protest in front of the Brazilian embassy in Caracas is demanding the release of 2,500 “political prisoners.”
“To those imprisoned for fighting, freedom, freedom!” Hundreds of people marched on Wednesday to the Brazilian embassy in Caracas to ask the president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silvato intercede in the Release of 2,500 “political prisoners” in Venezuela.
The number includes the more than 2,400 people arrested in protests against the re-election of Nicolas Maduro On July 28, proclaimed amid accusations of fraud by the opposition, which claims victory for Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutianow exiled in Spain.
The demonstration called to deliver a Letter addressed to Lulawho leads, together with his Colombian counterpart, Gustavo Petro, the efforts for a peaceful solution to the post-election crisis. “We made known the conditions in which these relatives of ours are today in Venezuela, who are being held violate all human rights“said Diego Casanova, a relative of one of those arrested in the July protests: “They are all prisoners of conscience, none of them have committed any crime.”
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Ripe was declared victorious for a third consecutive six-year term by the National Electoral Council (CNE), accused of serving the government. After the result was announced, thousands of people protested throughout the country, including popular sectors traditionally close to Chavez, dispersed with tear gas and rubber bullets. Some 2,400 people ended up behind bars, including minors.
Lulawho has already called Maduro’s government “very unpleasant regime” with “authoritarian bias“, did not recognize the victory for lack of a “transparent scrutiny“, as did other Latin American countries, the United States and the European Union. “Lula intercedes for Venezuela,” read one of the banners. “Free all political prisoners“, others said.
“President Lula da Silva knows what it is like to be in captivity“said Andreína Baduel, one of the organizers of the march. “The lives of political prisoners are being subjected to a murder in slow motion in Venezuela just for thinking differently,” added the daughter of General Raúl Baduel, an old ally of Hugo Chavezwho died in prison in 2021 after breaking with the government.
Source: Ambito
