- The former mayor of the Iribarren municipality Alfredo Ramos reported that Yenny Barrios needs a Doppler echo to rule out blood clots | Photo: taken from X
Alfredo Ramos, former mayor of the Iribarren municipality of Lara state, reported that Yenny Barrios, an oncology patient detained in the post-election context, was urgently transferred to the Antonio María Pineda University Central Hospital in Barquisimeto due to her delicate state of health.
“She is a cancer patient who recently had surgery, her cancer is lymphatic and she has severe pain in her legs. He urgently needs a Doppler ultrasound to rule out thrombi. So far they have not transferred her to a private center to perform the echo. This is how the dictatorship acts, without mercy and with all cruelty against all political prisoners,” Ramos denounced on his X account on October 23.
Barrios was arrested on September 9 in Carora and faces accusations of terrorism and was being held in a headquarters of the Bolivarian National Police (PNB) in Barquisimeto.
On September 12, the Vente Venezuela party denounced the arrest of Barrios, who is a social leader in his community, and demanded that the authorities provide him with medical attention, as well as his immediate release.
Women activists detained during post-election protests
After the presidential elections on July 28, several women, including political activists, were detained amid protests against the results offered by the National Electoral Council (CNE), which declared Nicolás the winner. Ripe.
These are some of the opposition leaders detained in the post-election context:
-María Oropeza, head of the Command with Venezuela in the Portuguesa state
-Yulennis Aranguren, coordinator of the Edmundo González Command
-Beatriz Andrade, councilor of the Freites municipality of Anzoátegui state, for the Democratic Action party
-Mónica Martínez Bowen, member of the Command with Venezuela in the Páez municipality (Yaracuy)
Alarm due to health condition of political prisoners
On October 22, the non-governmental organization (NGO) Justice, Encounter and Forgiveness warned about the physical deterioration of those detained in the context of the post-election protests. Through a publication in X, the organization specified that many of the detainees have lost weight “in an alarming manner.”
The NGO explained that the relatives of the political prisoners imprisoned in the Tocuyito prison (Carabobo) expressed their concern due to the poor conditions in which their relatives are found, as well as the poor food they receive.
“Guarantee the right to health, and listen to the cry of these anguished mothers and wives, since most of them travel from other states of the country to visit their relatives whom they see deteriorating more and more,” the organization urged.
On October 18, relatives of those detained in the post-election protests denounced the weight loss that the prisoners have shown. In addition, they assured that the authorities do not allow them to be given food or water.
One of the mothers of one of the prisoners, who demonstrated on October 18 outside the Ministry of Penitentiary Affairs in Caracas, reported that her son suffers from diarrhea and has not received adequate medical care.
“My son tells me that they don’t even give him water (…) we want our children free, all their rights are being violated,” the woman told the media.
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