Detained on the night of this Tuesday by officials of the “regime” of Nicolás Maduro, María Oropeza is a Venezuelan opposition leader, a regional collaborator of the anti-Chavista Edmundo González Urrutia.
Oropeza was kidnapped on Tuesday night by intelligence agents of the Chavista regime who entered her home after breaking down the door and without a judicial order while the woman was broadcasting live on Instagram and five thousand people were watching it live.
Oropeza, head of the Comando Con Venezuela in the Portuguesa state, is the coordinator of the party Vente Venezuela.
“They are entering my home arbitrarily, there is no search warrant, they are destroying the door. I am not a criminal, I am just another citizen who wants a different country, and God and the Virgin are always with me,” the woman states in the video.
The collaborator had criticized hours earlier the so-called “Operation Tun Tun” of the DGCIM, which enabled a phone line to report cases of “hate” either physical or virtual amidst the measures taken in response to the mobilizations unleashed after the presidential elections of July 28, which the opposition denounces as fraudulent.
The opposition leader, María Corina Machado, condemned Oropeza’s detention on social media and demanded her release.
María Oropeza is “an extraordinarily brave, intelligent, and generous young woman from Portuguesa,” described Machado on X.
“She is the Coordinator of @ConVzlaComando in Portuguesa and has done an extraordinary job uniting and organizing the citizens of her state,” she added.
“The regime has just taken her away by force and we do not know where she is,” Machado denounced.
On her social media profile, María Oropeza presents herself as “Lawyer / State Coordinator of @PortuguesaVente / Coord.@CEDICE, #Portuguesa / Guanareña and Libertarian.”
She joined X in 2010 and has her own YouTube channel.
Oropeza has been fighting against Chavismo since at least 2015 when she wrote: “Dignity and principles are not negotiable. We will continue working until we make Portuguesa an exemplary state and Venezuela a better country.”
