Activists, family members and former political prisoners from Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua and Bolivia united their voices. The tactics to persecute, imprison, torture and kill are the same, revealed former Venezuelan political prisoner Leopoldo López.

"Democracies have been losing ground on the planet: seven out of every 10 people today live under autocratic regimes," calculated the leader of Voluntad Popular, whose headquarters in Amazonas was attacked in the last few hours. Dictatorships that are also celebrating, after the new electoral victory of Vladimir Putin, celebrated in style by Latin American allies.