Vente Venezuela demanded the freedom of Alviarez and Hernández
María Corina Machado’s party, Vente Venezuela (VV), demanded this Wednesday “immediate freedom” for its national leaders Henry Alviarez and Dignora Hernándezdetained eight months ago, whom the Prosecutor’s Office links to “violent actions” related to the presidential elections of July 28.
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«Today they are in El Helicoide (headquarters of the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service in Caracas). They are not in prison for committing crimes, but for opposing the (Nicolás) Maduro regime. They are kidnapped for demanding freedom and justice. “We demand his immediate freedom!” he said.
On March 20, the attorney general, Tarek William Saab, reported that Alviarez and Hernández were captured “because of what Emil Brandt,” a regional head of the PUD campaign command, who was arrested at the beginning of that month for being – said the official – “incriminated” in “violent” and “terrorist” plans against the government.
After the presidential elections, in which the National Electoral Council (CNE) proclaimed Maduro the winner, multiple protests were registered against the official result, considered by the PUD as fraudulent, which resulted in more than 2,400 detainees, according to Executive figures.
Last weekend they were “awarded and executed” – he said saab— “225 freedom measures”, although the NGO Foro Penal has verified only 143 released prisoners, whose judicial process continues.
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