( Spanish) – Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado called for a global protest on Sunday, ensuring that Nicolás Maduro’s regime is “more isolated and weaker every day” and knows that “time is up.”
He added that the presidential candidate of the Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD), Edmundo González Urrutia, must take possession of the Presidency of Venezuela, after, according to the tally of minutes shown by the opposition Platform, they gave him victory in the elections. on July 28.
“This December 1st, we Venezuelans are going to meet inside and outside the country, demanding that the International Criminal Court move forward, as the rest of the world is moving forward, accompanying Venezuelans in our cause,” Machado said in a video broadcast on his website. social networks this Sunday.
consulted the Venezuelan Ministry of Communication about the protest announced by Machado and is awaiting a response.
The opposition leader reacted to the siege at the Argentine Embassy in Caracas after one of the asylum seekers, Omar González Moreno, former deputy and member of the National Directorate of the Vente Venezuela party, released this Saturday a video showing the Bolivarian National Police surrounding the diplomatic headquarters, currently in Brazilian custody. Six members of his campaign team have been holed up there since before the elections.
“The weaker they are, the more isolated they are, the more cruelty and desperation they act,” Machado said of the reasons behind the intimidation, referring to the regime.
is trying to communicate with the Venezuelan authorities and the Argentine Foreign Ministry to see if the agents have left the diplomatic headquarters or if they are still there.
The Venezuelan government broke diplomatic relations with the Argentine government after it refused to recognize Maduro as the winner of the elections without the National Electoral Council showing any results by state or voting center.
It is not the first time that the diplomatic headquarters has been besieged, since in September Venezuelan opponents denounced a similar situation when Venezuelan security forces surrounded the same facilities.
The Foreign Ministry of Argentina, the secretary general of the Organization of American States (OAS), Luis Almagro; and the US Embassy in Venezuela, also condemned the acts of harassment this weekend.
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