Political leaders reject increased repression in Venezuela

A group of 30 former heads of state who are part of the Democratic Initiative of Spain and the Americas (IDEA Group) signed a document in which they warn How the political dynamics of Venezuela have developed in recent days.

The signatories pointed out that there is a strong climate of repression in view of the celebration of the presidential elections of July 28.

“The repression by the Nicolás Maduro regime is increasing, it includes an archbishop of the Catholic Church, the imprisonment or exile of the immediate collaborators of the fundamental leader Maria Corina Machado who advocates for the candidacy of Edmundo González Urrutia and the kidnapping of his security chief”the document detailed.

Likewise, IDEA members They rejected the constant attacks against the Venezuelan opposition and its figures.

“The violation of the guarantees of a free and fair presidential election, as well as observable by international institutions with experience, is the current constant, to which is recently added the vandalization and damage to the security system of the vehicles in which Machado travels, “taking the lives of its occupants”the writing highlighted.

The document was signed by Mario Abdo, Óscar Arias, José María Aznar, Nicolás Barletta, Felipe Calderón, Rafael Calderón, Laura Chinchilla, Alfredo Cristiani, Iván Duque, Vicente Fox, Federico Franco, Eduardo Frei, Osvaldo Hurtado, Luis Lacalle, Guillermo Lasso , Mauricio Macri, Jamil Mahuad, Hipólito Mejía, Jorge Quiroga, Mariano Rajoy, Carlos Mesa, Lenín Moreno, Miguel Rodríguez, Julio Sanguinetti, Mireya Moscoso, Andrés Pastrana, Ernesto Balladares, Luis Solís, Álvaro Uribe and Juan Wasmosy.