The Command with Venezuela, led by María Corina Machado, denounced on Tuesday night the kidnapping of its coordinator in the state of Portuguesa, María Oropeza, at the hands of the DGCIM, Nicolás Maduro’s political police.
“Urgent. Regime officials are harassing María Oropeza, head of the ConVzla Command in Portuguesa. This is happening in Guanare. We hold the regime responsible for anything that may happen to her,” the organization denounced through its X account.
Opposition leader María Corina Machado also echoed the complaint on her social networks and asked for the protection of the member of Vente Venezuela.
“Alert! I ask the residents of Guanare to go to Carrera 17 and Calle 8, where regime officials intend to arrest María Oropeza, director of the Comando Con Vzla in Portuguesa,” Machado warned in a post on X accompanied by a video showing the Chavista officials trying to force their way into the home.
“Cooperate,” one of the security officers tells him, without showing a search or arrest warrant.
The opposition leader stressed that María Oropeza “has done an extraordinary job” uniting and organizing the citizens of her state.
“The regime has just taken her away by force and we don’t know where she is. She was kidnapped! I ask everyone, inside and outside Venezuela, to demand her immediate release,” he said.
Hours before his kidnapping, Oropeza denounced that the “Operation Tun Tun,” promoted by the dictatorship to persecute those who speak out against the electoral fraud of the CNE, “lacks any legal argument and is part of a witch hunt by a regime that lost the presidential elections on July 28.”
“We are facing the cruelest tyranny that has ever been experienced in the history of America in the last 40 years,” he added.
According to the opposition leader, the Chavista leadership “acts like a wounded beast, like a cornered beast, and it does so because today it is evident to the world that we Venezuelans won the elections.”
On Monday, Oropeza was in charge of confirming the death of the young man who had been beaten by the police after being arrested for protesting against electoral fraud in the country.
At least 2,229 people have been arrested by the Venezuelan regime in the context of the protests unleashed after the presidential elections of July 28, whose results offered by the CNE declared Nicolás Maduro the winner, without showing the minutes of the vote count.
The Caracas dictatorship announced that the detainees will be transferred to the Tocorón and Tocuyito prisons, emptied in September and October of last year, respectively, and adapted – according to Maduro – to hold “all the new generation gangs that are involved in the guarimbas (violent protests).”
He said that the detainees “attacked” and “murdered” people – without specifying the number – and “burned” hospitals, schools, high schools and universities, as well as police stations, mayors’ offices and headquarters of the ruling PSUV party, among other actions, for which he held the standard-bearer of the majority opposition, Edmundo González Urrutia, and the anti-Chavez leader María Corina Machado responsible.
According to the Venezuelan NGO Provea, 24 civilians have died, some of them “killed” by members of the security forces or irregular armed groups.
“Provea records show that 24 people died between Sunday, July 28 and Monday, August 5 in events and protests related to the elections,” according to an updated report from that organization, which denounces an escalation of “repression.”
The report coincides with a report on social network X by Juanita Goebertus, director of the Americas Division of Human Rights Watch.
“So far we have received credible reports of 24 deaths that occurred in the context of post-election protests in Venezuela,” Goebertus posted, specifying that these were “23 protesters or bystanders” and one soldier. “We are verifying each reported case,” he added.
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