***After the street activity this Saturday, the vehicle was confiscated by the PNB in Caracas
The open-top truck that Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado used as a stage at political rallies was confiscated by authorities on Saturday after a political rally against the re-election of President Nicolas Maduro in Caracas.
The opposition published a photo of the vehicle – used months ago during the electoral campaign led by Machado and his candidate Edmundo González Urrutia – on a National Police crane.
“The regime STOLE the truck used by María Corina Machado and Edmundo González for events and mobilizations throughout the country,” wrote the candidate’s Comando Con Venezuela alliance on X. “We will not be able to stop us from continuing on the streets!” they added.
The truck consists of an elevated structure that served as a platform. It is labeled with a Venezuelan flag, two giant photos of González Urrutia and Machado and the message “Venezuela won,” a reference to the victory that the opposition says it obtained in the elections of July 28, in which it denounces fraud with the proclamation of the reelection of President Nicolás Maduro.
It was a solution to the obstacles that the opposition has faced in organizing political events: any company that provides a service such as a stage, sound or even food usually ends up closed or fined, a series of sanctions that the leadership labels as political.
Machado used it this Saturday for a rally of thousands of his followers in Caracas. The seizure was recorded “when the event had already ended and we were preparing to protect the vehicle,” the publication in X said without further details.
The authorities have not yet commented on the matter.
With information from AFP
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2024-08-20 04:19:27
