The Venezuelan opponent Edmundo González denounced on Friday the “forced disappearance” of his son -in -law Rafael Tudares Bracho for two months, whom he described as “a hostage of the regime” by Nicolás Maduro.
In an opinion article published in the Spanish newspaper El País, González, who was a candidate for the opposition against Maduro in the presidential elections of July 28, 2024, reports that his son -in -law was arrested on January 7 when he took his children of 7 and 8 years to visit his grandmother, newly operated, and still do not know his whereabouts.
The opponent denounces the “forced disappearance”, but states: “It is the story of many Venezuelan families living in a state of constant uncertainty, threatened and persecuted.”
“I am the president -elect for more than 7.5 million Venezuelans and I recognize in each vote the will to change my country. But today I am also a Venezuelan. I live what thousands of compatriots have suffered: I have a relative kidnapped by the State, ”he writes in his article.
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González, candidate of the Unitary Democratic Platform (PU), which brought together most of the opposition parties, is considered the winner of these elections, according to the electoral records that this coalition says he gathered, but the National Electoral Council (CNE) granted the victory to Nicolás Maduro.
75 years old and that until recently he was separated from public life, he affirms in his article that since he accepted the nomination as a candidate, less than a year ago, he has been “victim of harassment, persecution and threats, including the risk of being private arbitrarily of my freedom.”
“It is the risk that each citizen runs that opposes authoritarianism, the loss of rights and freedoms, and that longs for a dignified life. Is that a crime? It is not, ”he continues.
And he warns that “the political persecution” in Venezuela has been intensified since the primary elections of 2023, in which the opponent María Corina Machado was elected candidate of the POD, but before her disqualification, the candidate was Edmundo González.
The Venezuelan opponent says: “Rafael is kept in forced disappearance only for being my son -in -law, despite the fact that the Venezuelan Constitution establishes that a person’s criminal responsibility cannot extend to their relatives.”
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And he maintains that he has been able to know that his son -in -law had a “clandestine judgment” in which he was charged with “betrayal of the homeland, conspiracy with foreign governments and association to commit crimes, the same crimes that impute me.”
“Family members want us to silence, they want to stop our struggle, they want to make us feel guilty, when the only guilty is authoritarianism and their state terrorism practices,” he concludes.
With EFE information
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