What Maria Corina Machado said about Pedro Sanchez’s position
Maria Corina Machado, opposition leader, denounced the violation of human rights in Venezuela. During an interview with the Spanish program Public Mirrorfrom Antena3, highlighted that more than 150 minors were arrested for protesting in the country. He denounced that many find themselves in situations where their rights are violated.
“The numbers are terrifying. “One has to think about what 150 children kidnapped, imprisoned and separated from their parents mean. Children who have been mistreated, tortured and forced to record videos praising Maduro is a monstrous thing,” Machado said during the interview.
On the regime’s repression:
🔴 Sometimes numbers are so cold that they hide and bury the human reality behind each one of them!
🆘 Cases of children kidnapped, abused, tortured and forced to record videos praising Maduro.
🆘 Cases of women detained… pic.twitter.com/50sw4W76Ql— Vente Venezuela (@VenteVenezuela) September 2, 2024
“There was a girl who was a musician in the symphony orchestra who was taken off the street because she was protesting,” Machado added.
He also referred to the position of former Spanish Prime Minister José Luis RodrÃguez Zapatero. He regretted that he had not taken a position on the situation in Venezuela after the elections in which the opposition claims to have won, but which Nicolás Maduro refuses to recognise.
“There is no room for indifference,” says Machado
“I don’t know him, and I’m surprised that more than a month after the election, I think he’s the only guest of Maduro who He has not said a word about what he saw here, and he surely saw a lot,” he stressed. Rodriguez Zapatero.
He questioned the position of the Spanish government, headed by socialist Pedro Sánchez, regarding the situation in Venezuela.
“It is inconceivable that a democratic government in the West would claim that In Venezuela, standards are established that would not be accepted in their country.“When a candidate wins by a landslide and proves it, he is immediately elected president and the president-elect is recognized,” he stressed.
He insisted that one cannot remain neutral in the face of what Venezuelans are experiencing. “There is no room for indifference, neutrality or claiming ignorance“Everyone knows what happened on July 28 and what Maduro has done. There is no room for silence because it becomes complicity,” he said.
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