Maria Colina Machado, Venezuela’s opposition leader and front-runner for a ban in the yet-to-be-scheduled presidential election against dictator Nicolás Maduro, suffered a socialist mob’s attack on her campaign event on Wednesday. and said he had beaten his supporters “with sticks and stones.”
“More than 100 regimes collectivos They attacked with sticks and stones, injuring numerous attendees,” Machado wrote in a Twitter message. “The police present at the scene incited the militants by their inaction.” collectivos”
term colectivo In Venezuela, armed thugs aligned with the socialist regime have carried out terrorist activities against known dissidents through street beatings, extrajudicial killings, and other violence since the era of late dictator Hugo Chávez. is used to mean.of collectivosUnlike the Bolivarian National Guard (GNB), it is not an official force of Maduro’s regime, and thus maintains a certain distance between the dictator and his repressive forces.
presidential candidate published Video taken from inside the vehicle shows rioters throwing rocks at the vehicle and breaking its windows. She also shared a video of a man wearing a bloody Vente Venezuela shirt. Apparently there was blood running down his neck and shirt from a wound to his head.
Vente Venezuela is Machado’s center-right party.
Other videos shared by Bente Venezuela from an event in Venezuela’s Miranda state showed a crowd storming outside the rally site.
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Mr. Machado is currently campaigning across Venezuela to win the presidency in elections that Mr. Maduro has only nominally agreed to hold and that the socialist government has barred him from participating in. In October, the leftist US President Joe Biden’s administration lifted sanctions on Venezuela’s state oil company Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) and said it would allow PDVSA to sell petroleum products in the US in exchange for commitments from the administration. Announced. Hold a “free and fair” presidential election in 2024. Sanctions relief gave Maduro a windfall and access to the lucrative U.S. market, which was blocked by former President Donald Trump’s administration, which limited the socialists’ ability to use violence against politics. It is something that Opponent.
Immediately after the sanctions relief, and Biden’s widely criticized decision to release Maduro’s alleged money laundering head and financial advisor, Alex Saab, the Maduro regime announced that announced a new crackdown on anti-socialists. “Bolivarian Rage,” he said, declaring that the results of the primary elections held by the country’s establishment opposition parties were unfair. Machado, a former lawmaker who personally faced violence for more than a decade to oppose President Maduro, won the primary with an overwhelming 93% of the vote.
President Maduro also declared an agreement that led to sanctions relief for PDVSA.mortally injured” in late January, indicating that he would not fulfill his promise to hold a presidential election.
Bente Venezuela argued that Machado’s persistence in campaigning appeared to have led to Wednesday’s mob violence.
“This is yet another violation of freedom of association,” the party said. Said In a statement. “Enough persecution and attacks!”
Machado, a former lawmaker, was expelled from his democratically elected parliamentary seat in 2014. A year before she was expelled, her socialists beat her in the halls of her parliament. breaking news her nose.
La Acabo de Entrevister. Yo, Prometo esta noche a las 9:30 pm.There is no pierdas pic.twitter.com/MmwtdxlzPy
— Nitu Perez Osuna (@NituPerez) May 5, 2013
Maduro’s government stripped her of her legislative immunity in 2014, denied her access to her office, and used tear gas to prevent her from entering the Capitol. Although she was physically attacked and led to further violence, she remained a prominent leader of the opposition movement for many years. In 2018, Machado and his girlfriend’s clique were targeted in attacks similar to this week’s. In the incident, a mob of socialists armed with sticks and stones attacked anti-Maduro forces during a daytime public event to drum up support.
“The violent assailants used stones, sticks, pipes, switchblades and other objects against people who were walking peacefully in Upata. They directly attacked Maria Colina.” Bente Venezuela said in a statement at the time.
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— Command Con VZLA (@PrensaMCM) October 25, 2018
Bente Venezuela is vocally opposed to sanctions relief against Maduro.
“Despite the US government’s concessions to the regime, including the suspension of some sanctions, serious human rights violations still exist in Venezuela,” the party said. Said A statement issued in late January criticized the arbitrary detention and forced disappearance of several Venezuelan regional leaders.
