Tintori asked Spain to advocate for “political prisoners” / Photo: El Mundo
The Venezuelan opposition activist Lilian Tintori criticized this Friday the “silence” of Spain regarding the crisis and the situation of political prisoners in Venezuela, something that in her opinion makes her an “complicit” in the “injustices” that occur in her country. .
In statements to EFE in Madrid, Tintori said that the Venezuelan opposition “is bothered by Spain’s silence regarding the situation in Venezuela”: “Silence is complicit. When you see an injustice and you see that the person does nothing about That injustice, that silence weighs,” he insisted.
The Venezuelan activist called on Spain to advocate for the release of “all political prisoners in Venezuela and throughout Latin America,” something that for Tintori is “fundamental” in overcoming political crises in countries where there is “terrorism.” of State” such as – he detailed – Bolivia, Cuba, Nicaragua or Venezuela.
According to the NGO Foro Penal, in Venezuela there are 1,916 detainees for “political reasons”, among them 70 adolescents between 14 and 17 years old.
For Tintori, the problem goes further due to the “pain and fear” in which the population of those countries lives. “It’s not that there are political prisoners, it’s that those who are free live in terror,” he said.
The existence of political prisoners “is the first symptom that we know that these countries do not have the rule of law, they do not have democracy”, places in which “they are going to take a deep breath once they release all the prisoners.”
In this context, Tintori presented this Friday in Madrid ‘Road to Freedom’, a manual designed for relatives of political prisoners that aims to be a tool to “strengthen” families and achieve their freedom, a program that is already being implemented in 17 cases globally.
On the other hand, Tintori expressed his hope that on January 10, the opposition candidate Edmundo González Urrutia, who has been exiled in Spain for a month, will be able to go to Caracas to take office as Venezuelan president.
“We show that we are the majority and we have the (electoral) records that say that Edmundo González was the elected president and is our current president, so what remains is with that hope up and with a lot of encouragement and with the work they are doing (the opposition leader) María Corina Machado and Edmundo to achieve change in Venezuela,” he summarized.
Madrid / EFE
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