Venezuelan opposition denounces a new siege by security forces of the Argentine embassy in Caracas

( Spanish) – Omar González Moreno, former deputy and member of the National Directorate of the Vente Venezuela party, currently sheltered in the Argentine embassy in Caracas, released a video this Saturday in which he details that police officers surround the diplomatic headquarters currently in the custody of Brazil, where Six members of María Corina Machado and Edmundo González Urrutia’s campaign team are in asylum.

In the video, published on his X account, González Moreno details that a car with police officers can be seen in a “siege” situation.

For his part, the Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo González Urrutia, asylum in Spain since September, reacted to this new complaint through his social networks.

“I alert the world of what may happen to fellow refugees in the Argentine Embassy in Caracas. “They are being besieged by hooded people,” he wrote on his X account.

The Argentine Foreign Ministry condemned the “acts of harassment and intimidation” against people sheltered in the Argentine embassy in Caracas.

The deployment of armed troops, the closure of streets around our embassy and other maneuvers constitute a disruption of security that must be guaranteed to diplomatic headquarters in accordance with international law, as well as to those who have requested diplomatic asylum. “The Argentine Republic calls on the international community to condemn these practices and demand the necessary safe conduct to allow asylum seekers to leave the country,” he said in a post on your X account.

“The Argentine Republic reaffirms its commitment to the defense of human rights, respect for international standards and the safety of those in a situation of asylum.” he added.

In September, Venezuelan opponents denounced a similar situation when Venezuelan security forces surrounded the Argentine embassy in Caracas, a measure they described as a siege situation by the Government of Nicolás Maduro.