They denounce the cut of water supply to the Argentine Embassy
The opponent Omar González, one of the six opponents granted asylum in the residence of the Argentine Embassy in Caracas since March, denounced this Wednesday that The government of Nicolás Maduro blocks the supply of drinking water to the diplomatic headquartersdays after the electricity outage was reported, in the midst of a police siege that they claim to have experienced since Saturday.
“The Nicolás Maduro regime blocks the entry of drinking water to the Argentine Embassy in Caracas, under the protection of Brazil, which constitutes another serious violation of human rights and diplomatic status for the six asylum leaders,” González said through of X.
Last minute!.. The regime of Nicolás Maduro blocks the entry of drinking water to the Argentine embassy in Caracas, under the protection of Brazil, which constitutes another serious violation of human rights and diplomatic status for the 6 asylum leaders pic.twitter.com/Ii9htgeIi3
— Omar Gonzalez Moreno (@omargonzalez6) November 27, 2024
On the same social network, Pedro Urruchurtu, also an asylum seeker and close collaborator of the opposition leader María Corina Machado, assured that “The regime prohibits the entry of a tanker truck with drinking water«.
Previously, it reported “more than 85 hours of continuous siege” outside the residence and “more than 36 hours without electricity service,” after the ConVzla team, from the majority opposition in Venezuela, reported on Tuesday the theft of fuses of electricity.
November 27, 2PM: Not satisfied with maintaining the police siege (+90h) outside the residence of the Argentine Embassy in Caracas, protected by Brazil, and with having cut off the electricity (+40h), now the regime prohibits entry of a tanker truck with drinking water.
— Pedro Urruchurtu Noselli (@Urruchurtu) November 27, 2024
The six opponents granted asylum in the Argentine Embassy in Caracas
Since August, The Argentine Embassy in Caracas remains under the protection of Brazil -after the expulsion of the Argentine diplomats-, even though the Maduro government revoked this authorization in September due to the alleged planning of terrorist acts inside the headquarters by the asylum seekers.
The Brazilian Foreign Ministry indicated that “it will remain with the custody and defense of the interests” of Argentina until the southern country “designates another acceptable State” for the Maduro Executive, in order to carry out those functions.
In addition to Urruchurtu and González, they are also asylum seekers Magalli Meda, Machado’s campaign manager; Claudia Macero, communications coordinator of Vente Venezuela (VV); Humberto Villalobos, electoral coordinator of the VV campaign command, and former minister Fernando Martínez Mottola, advisor to the Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD), the largest opposition bloc.
The six took refuge in March after the Prosecutor’s Office accused them of crimes such as conspiracy and treason.
On Saturday, the Argentine government condemned the “acts of harassment and intimidation against asylum seekers” in its Embassy in Caracas.
On Monday, the opposition leader Edmundo González Urrutia He said, in an interview with Efe, that he views this situation with “great concern” and that it is, in his opinion, “absolutely illogical, with electricity cuts, water supply cuts and surveillance that prevents them from accessing the supply.” .
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