The Chavista regime continues its harassment of the environment of the former opposition candidate for the July 28 elections, María Corina Machado. Agents from Sebin, the Venezuelan intelligence service, arrested journalist and opposition activist Carlos Julio Rojas late this Monday, accused of “instigating” the alleged murder of President Nicolás Maduro, which the president himself denounced in March.
The Attorney General of Venezuela, Tarek William Saab, justified on Network with the registration of Maduro as a presidential candidate at the headquarters of the National Electoral Council (CNE), in Caracas.
That day, Maduro himself, from a platform installed in front of the CNE, reported that two men had been detained in the crowd because they were allegedly going to assassinate him. It turned out that the two arrested were members of Vente Venezuela, Machado's party, which is disqualified from running in the elections despite winning the primaries attended by the majority of opposition parties.
The prosecution accused the detainees of “terrorism” and “attempted assassination”, within the framework of the harassment campaign of the authoritarian Chavista regime against Machado's entourage, since seven members of the opposition leader's campaign team have already been detained. and seven others are wanted and captured.
“Persecution increases in Venezuela, two men in black kidnap community activist and journalist Carlos Julio Rojas,” the NGO Provea tweeted. The journalist's arrest was carried out by hooded Sebin agents. Rojas, coordinator of a neighborhood association called the Northern Front of Caracas, already spent time in a military prison in 2017. Coinciding with the alleged assassination attempt – the umpteenth that Maduro denounces – Rojas organized an action to burn dolls at the end of March. of the Chavista leader and the opposition governor of the state of Zulia, Manuel Rosales, who has announced his intention to run in the elections amid the distrust of a large part of the opposition, which accuses him of maintaining a hidden pact with the regime.
