Diosdado Cabello recognizes detention of minors and blames parents for allowing them to protest

Diosdado Cabello, Minister of the Interior and Justice, admitted that the Venezuelan State maintains minors arrested after post-election protestshowever, blamed parents for allegedly allowing young people to take to the streets to demonstrate.

During his weekly program With the given deck, Cabello chose to hold responsible the parents of the 69 minors, between 14 and 17 years old, who have been detained since July 29 and did not mention the allegations of torture and irregularities in the judicial processes of the young people.

«There they are putting pressure on the poor political prisoners, poor children who are detained. The parents go and hold vigils. Where were those parents on July 29 and 30, who allowed their children to go to guarimbear? Why didn’t they object to their children? Where were they? Now we are the bad guys,” he said.

Mothers of political prisoners, including relatives of detained minors, have held vigils and protests in front of the headquarters of the Public Ministry, in Caracas, and in the prisons of Tocuyito, Tocorón and Yare III to demand their release.

«Why didn’t they have the foresight to prevent their children from participating in these types of violent activities? Are they going to worry about their children now? They should have worried sooner. The State forces them to worry about their children, end of the world, when a father must worry about his children without anyone forcing them,” he added.

Cabello also said that those arrested after protests against the results of the July 28 elections were sent to cause destruction by the Venezuelan opposition.

“This is how they (right) act, they put a child, because they are not going to do anything to the child because he is 13 years old and the society of accomplices comes and works, but the People know the truth, they tell what really happened,” he expressed in his program.

Diosdado Cabello proposes regulation of social networks

Diosdado Cabello warned that the time will come when they will have to regulate the use of social networks in Venezuela due to the alleged violence and crimes committed from said platforms.

«The time will come when we will have to regulate the use of social networks, anyone can scream, but we are not going to hand over the future of this country to psychopaths. No, we can’t,” said the Chavista leader.

He assured that the five poisoning events in schools in the last two weeks in the country’s schools and high schools are related to challenges on social networks.

«This is a problem that must be faced, the issue of social networks, legislation, regulation (…). They post messages and from there promote the participation of people, in this case young people,” said Diosdado Cabello.