Leocenis García has been in prison and held incommunicado for 15 days

Leocenis García spent 15 days incommunicado and detained in Venezuela on Wednesday, where he was captured in the context of the post-electoral crisis that the country is experiencing. This was reported by his daughter, Laura García.

The young woman explained that the last two weeks have been full of “uncertainty and frustration” due to this lack of communication with her father, leader of the Prociudadanos party, who is being held – she said – in the El Rodeo prison, located on the outskirts of Caracas.

“I don’t know how my father is, I haven’t seen him, I don’t know how his health is, I don’t know anything about him,” García said in the video, in which he reiterates that his father is the victim of an “arbitrary detention,” without explaining what the courts accuse him of.

He also recalled that the 42-year-old politician has been imprisoned on several occasions and that on two of them he went on hunger strikes that had “consequences” on his health, for which he must take daily medication, something he does not know if he has been guaranteed since he was arrested.

“I demand to see my father, I demand his freedom,” he insisted.

García, who received political clearance from the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) in January, expressed his intention to compete in the presidential elections on July 28, in which Nicolás Maduro was declared the winner, a fact that has been questioned inside and outside the country.

In a video released days after the election, Leocenis García said the Constitution had been “outraged” by the government, which he criticized for repressing some protests against the election result, and called Maduro’s controversial re-election a fraud.