“They are turning the Argentine Embassy in Caracas into a torture center”
Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado warned this Tuesday before the Brazilian Congress of a new wave of migration and greater repression in Venezuela if Nicolás Maduro assumes a new mandate on January 10.
“If Maduro prolongs this agony and clings tightly to power, in a few months we will see two, three, four, five million more Venezuelans crossing the borders into Brazil,” Machado said in a video conference during a hearing of the Foreign Relations Commission. Foreign Affairs of the Chamber of Deputies of Brazil.
He indicated that today there are more than 1,000 Venezuelans per day who cross the borders. «And they do it not because the situation is difficult in Venezuela, but because there is no future. If we achieve an organized transition, not only will this migratory flow be stopped, You can be sure that millions of Venezuelans will return«he added.
The opposition leader stressed that the Venezuelan crisis “is no longer a question of left or right,” but rather “a matter of respect for human rights and democracy itself.”
Machado denounced the siege of the Argentine Embassy in Caracas
He also referred to the siege by the Maduro government of the six opponents asylumd since March in the Argentine Embassy in Caracas -under the diplomatic protection of Brazil-.
«They are turning the Argentine Embassy into a torture center and a true prison, and that is unprecedented. “We want to ask you to raise your voices for this terrible injustice,” he said.
asked to the government of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to intervene to stop “this crime of the Nicolás Maduro regime” and take care of the lives of those who are refugees there.
The six opponents sheltered in the official residence are celebrating 10 days without electricity this Tuesday, after their electricity was cut off on November 23 as part of the growing siege by the government of Nicolás Maduro.
To keep food in the refrigerator, María Corina Machado’s six collaborators They use an electric plant that they turn on for a few hours of the day and nightaccording to the Venezuelan Command.
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