An opposition mayor arrested while the Venezuelan opposition fights for the governorship of Barinas

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The disguise of the "best and most democratic elections in the world" has only lasted a few days.

Agents of the Bolivarian Intelligence Service (Sebin) today arrested

, elected mayor of the Arzobispo Chacón municipality in Canagua (Mérida).

The political police have also taken four members of his team, including three women, who wanted to advance the transition with the Chavista municipal leaders.

The elected mayor tried to prevent revolutionaries from looting the Mayor's Office and taking away a shipment of medicines, something that is happening in other parts of the country.

last Sunday despite the lack of democratic conditions confirmed by the Electoral Mission of the European Union (EU).

"We denounce arbitrary detention by the Sebin of Omar Fernández, elected mayor.

", Reported Unidad Venezuela.

Lawyers from the Foro Penal organization, which watches over political prisoners, accompany the detainees to the judicial hearing established by law.

Fernández's arrest joins the protests that continue today in Barinas, where opponents demand that

be declared Governor

, leader of the Popular Will (VP) who, according to the minutes, would have imposed on

, brother of the "Supreme Commander ".

The Chávez family has ruled Barinas, the birthplace of the revolution, for two decades.

"We continue to exert the necessary pressure in healthy peace. There is nothing more forceful at this time than to snatch their speech from them, let us not fall into their traps," Superlano cried out to his followers, mobilized since Tuesday.

The opposition has asked the EU Mission not to leave Barinas until the official proclamation is made.

, president of the NGO Control Ciudadano, has denounced that the three minutes that are yet to be counted are withheld by the commander of the military zone in that part of the country.

The stoppage of the count has forced the intervention of the two opposition rectors of the National Electoral Council (CNE).

"I am aware that the delay in the totalization of the minutes is unjustifiable and I will be very vigilant to close this chapter in absolute respect for the will of the Barinese people,"

.

The final count, five days after the elections, is now in the hands of the Electoral Board.

Incidents similar to those of Canagua are repeated in other municipalities, such as in San Juan de los Morros, when the inauguration of the opposition mayor,

, was interrupted by masked agents of the General Directorate of Military Counterintelligence (Dgcim).

"It is about State terrorism against the popular will of the inhabitants of our southern towns

," certified

, VP coordinator in Mérida.

In the Caracas municipality of Baruta, where the opposition triumphed again, its leaders denounced that the government had ordered the withdrawal of the coronavirus vaccination campaign.

The revolutionary attack happens when Nicolás Maduro has traveled to Cuba by surprise to participate in the tributes to Fidel Castro, five years after his death.

Meanwhile, in Venezuela, its number two, Diosdado Cabello, has threatened to arrest the mayors: "The mayor is going to jail, they don't have to grant him immunity of any kind. He is

, for attacking property. I am not threatening anyone, but here for there to be peace there must be justice. "

Chavismo has taken advantage of alleged attacks on community radio stations to attack the new mayors, who are trying to defend municipal offices from the usual looting that precedes their delivery to the new administration.

"Maduro has a great dilemma with Barinas: to

that (when they are not given disqualifications, stolen cards, violence, censorship ...) they also steal votes on election day, as happened in Bolívar in 2017, "stressed opposition leader Freddy Guevara.

Four years ago, Chavismo falsified the voting records to impose a general as governor of Bolívar, the state on the border with Brazil where the Arco Minero is located and where the controversial gold mines are exploited.

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