Persecution Continues: María Corina Machado’s Team Member Emill Brandt Ulloa Disappeared

2024-03-09 18:16:00
Emill Brandt Ulloa and María Corina Machado

The regime of Nicolás Maduro continues its persecution once morest the team of the opposition leader, María Corina Machado, its main threat in the elections next July. This Friday night, Vente Venezuela reported the disappearance of Emill Brandt Ulloa, regional leader of the group in Barinas and director of the former Deputy’s campaign command.

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As it was learned, Brandt Ulloa was hiding in a mechanical workshop in the El Cambio neighborhood of the El Carmen parish, in the city of Barinas, given that a search and arrest warrant was out for him, and he was surprised by agents of the Bolivarian Security Service. Intelligence (Sebin) last night.

To date, his whereregardings or condition are unknown, although it is believed that he might be taken to Helicoide, in Caracas, one of the prisons most reported for the torture and abuse that occurs there, and where political prisoners usually go.

Although Brandt Ulloa’s whereregardings are unknown, it is believed that he will be taken to Helicoide, the destination of a large part of the political prisoners.

Machado launched a “global alert” regarding this episode on his social networks, “just a few hours following I visited that state.” “This action constitutes one more violation of the already trampled Barbados Agreement and shows that Maduro has chosen to continue ‘the hard way’. We demand a firm reaction from all national and international actors who support a true presidential election in Venezuela,” she noted and assured that, despite these attempts to intimidate her, “we will continue to travel throughout our country in building more and more strength and citizen organization to achieve electoral victory this year.”

María Corina Machado denounces the arrest of her regional collaborator

Also, the Llanos Human Rights Foundation (Fundehullan) demanded “that the authorities issue official information and release him urgently” and pointed out that “the State is responsible for his physical integrity and his life,” according to a message. published on social networks.

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This episode took place the same week that the ruling National Electoral Commission announced the date of the presidential elections: July 28. In view of this, the organization will be receiving and evaluating the candidacies, among them that of María Corina, who is believed to be rejected because the disqualification of her person is still in force, even failing to comply with what was agreed with the international community and the opposition. .

The Maduro regime arrested María Corina Machado’s campaign director in Barinas (EFE)

Brandt Ulloa thus joins the other three Machado collaborators who were detained in recent weeks on orders from Maduro.

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Juan Freites, Luis Camacaro and Guillermo López, representatives of Vente Venezuela in the states of Vargas, Yaracuy and Trujillo, were victims of “forced disappearance” following they were accused of an alleged link with a plan that sought to attack the life of Ripe.

Brandt Ulloa joined other Vente Venezuela collaborators who were also victims of forced disappearance in recent times

“These people remain in forced disappearance, a kind of legal limbo in which neither their lawyers have been able to have access to them, nor their family,” denounced Omar Mora Tosta, one of the defenders of the case, during a press conference.

For his part, the attorney general, Tarek William Saab, maintained that the officers’ actions were due to their link with “the present terrorist plot”, in charge of the “White Bracelet” operation, and “they served as logistical support for the group.” terrorist who intended to attack several military barracks” and, subsequently, commit an assassination.

The moment of Freites’ arrest at his home in Vargas on January 23

Activist Rocío San Miguel, who has been detained for a month this Saturday, was also accused of being part of this plot and is being investigated on charges of treason, terrorism and conspiracy.

The human rights defender is detained in El Helicoide, without being able to have contact with her family or team of lawyers.

“We were appointed by family members to assist her but that has not been possible and the court excuses itself by saying that she has not been transferred to the court (…) She is in a state of defenselessness and incommunication,” said lawyer Joel García. .

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