- From their seats, the deputies held up photographs of the Venezuelan leaders with the word “kidnapped” | Photo: Elisa Trotta
Argentine lawmakers have demanded the immediate release of four former Venezuelan opposition lawmakers detained before and after the presidential elections in Venezuela.
Parliamentarians urged Venezuelan authorities to release leaders Dignora Hernández, Williams Dávila, Freddy Superlano and Américo de Grazia during a session of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies on Wednesday, August 14.
The legislators held up photos of the former deputies in their seats with the one announced as “kidnapped” in the image. The printouts also included a description of which agency detained each leader and the date on which they were arrested.
During the session, the deputies also advocated for the release of the more than one thousand people detained in the post-election context.
Elisa Trotta, a Venezuelan living in Argentina and a human rights defender, thanked Argentine deputies for raising their voices in support of Venezuelans detained and disappeared in the context of the presidential campaign and post-election protests.
We thank each deputy who today, in the session, showed the photo of their kidnapped Venezuelan colleagues,” wrote Trotta in X.
Trotta said that the leaders are detained for “fighting for democracy and human rights.” He added that Venezuelans inside and outside their country will continue working for the freedom of political prisoners and for Venezuela.
Support from parliamentarians
Other Latin American parliaments have shown their support for the Venezuelan opposition following the results of the presidential elections announced by the National Electoral Council (CNE), in which Nicolás Maduro was declared the winner.
In the post-election context, there have been both spontaneous protests and protests called by opposition leaders; in both situations, repression by security agencies and the arrest of thousands of demonstrators has been recorded.
On August 6, the Chamber of Deputies of Chile held a special session in which the situation in Venezuela was discussed. At the end of the debates Seven resolutions were approved in which they asked the Chilean president, Gabriel Boric, to recognize Edmundo González as the winner of the July 28 elections.
He Senate of Colombiafor its part, received former Venezuelan deputy Gaby Arellano on August 6 at the legislative headquarters, where she had the opportunity to make a call a the senators to ask the Colombian government to recognize González as the winner of the presidential elections in Venezuela.
“I have come to ask for three fundamental things: first, a joint declaration by all the senators of this Chamber that recognizes the results of the sovereignty of the people, which was expressed at the polls on July 28,” Arellano said at the headquarters of the Colombian Senate.
The former deputy denounced the persecution that political leaders, prosecutors, military personnel and electoral witnesses have been suffering in Venezuela since July 29. In light of this, she asked the senators to demand that the Colombian government “not be complicit in the fraud and murder of the Venezuelan people.”
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2024-08-16 01:24:29
