The opposition mayor of Maracaibo and three other officials arrested

The opponent Rafael Ramírez Colina, mayor of Maracaibo, capital of the Zulia state, He was arrested this Tuesday, as well as three other local officials, among them the general director of citizen security of this city, David Barroso, sources from the Mayor’s Office told EFE.

Ramírez Colina and Barroso were arrested in Villa Carmen, a house considered historical cultural heritage of Maracaibo that is under the administration of the Mayor’s Office, according to sources.

Two members of Ramírez Colina’s security team were also arrested, they added.

At the moment the reason for these arrests is unknown, which occur at a time when the country is going through a political crisis unleashed after the presidential elections on July 28, in which Nicolás Maduro was proclaimed the winner by the National Electoral Council (CNE), based on results that are still unknown in a disaggregated manner, despite the fact that their publication was contemplated in the official schedule.

The mayor supported Edmundo González

The mayor, member of the opposition party Primero Justicia, supported the standard bearer of the main coalition Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD), Edmundo González Urrutiain these elections.

Likewise, Ramírez Colina also joined the “legitimate citizen request” that the CNE “publish the results, table by table, center by center”, of the past elections, in order to “grant the confidence that the electoral process needs” , as stated on his Instagram account.

«The peaceful and citizen defense of the results of July 28 with absolute transparency is the defense of the Constitution and national sovereignty, nothing and no one can oppose this principle. Only the truth will bring peace and to find it we do not have to encounter violence, in any of its expressions,” reads a publication made on that social network after the elections.