What the Unitary Platform said about Alfredo Díaz

The largest opposition coalition in the country, the Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD), condemned this Monday the arrest of Alfredo Díaz, former governor of the island state Nueva Esparta and leader of the Democratic Action party deprived of liberty on Sunday.

Throughto “in the framework of another escalation of persecution against the democratic forces of the country”, when Venezuela is experiencing a crisis after the presidential elections of July 28, whose official result gave the re-election of Nicolás Maduro and which the opposition bloc considers “fraudulent.”

«We demand their immediate freedom and respect for their human rights, as we continue to demand for all political prisoners. “Doing politics is not a crime,” the organization maintained.

Alfredo Díaz, arrested for making complaints

With the arrest of Díaz, the Human Rights Committee of the Vente Venezuela party counts 160 imprisoned leaders and activists, whom it considers political prisoners, the vast majority collaborators of the PUD.

The former governor, who has questioned the lack of publication of the disaggregated results of the elections, warned last week, through X, sabout the electricity crisis that Nueva Esparta has experienced this month – which the government blames on attacks by the opposition -, with a balance of “million-dollar losses” in small and medium-sized businesses and food spoilage for the “already impoverished families” in the island region.

After the presidential elections, more than 2,400 people were arrested, according to the authorities, in the context of protests against the official result. a victory that questions a good part of the community international.

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