Daniel Lozano
Updated Saturday, February 17, 2024-00:36
Venezuela Chavismo imprisons the Spanish-Venezuelan activist Rocío San Miguel in the sinister Helicoide, headquarters of Maduro's political police
New wave of repression in Venezuela Rocío San Miguel, a Spanish-Venezuelan activist imprisoned for "terrorism" and her family, under precautionary measures
"Rocío needs us strong and we are not alone,
Rocío is not alone. Today we are all Rocío," opposition leader
María Corina Machado
concludes
a choral video in support of
Rocío San Miguel,
a relevant figure of Venezuelan civil society who is one week old. in the hands of the Bolivarian revolution. Accused of participating in an alleged assassination attempt against Nicolás Maduro, the activist remains imprisoned in Helicoide, the sinister pressure of Nicolás Maduro's political police. "The largest torture center in all of Latin America," as Venezuelan journalist Idania Chirinos recalls in the video.
"Armed officials detained her at the
Caracas International Airport. Then they intercepted five more members of her family and captured them. All of them are victims of a crime of forced disappearance," highlights
popular
deputy
Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo
to open the audiovisual document. , in which leaders, human rights activists, mothers of victims, journalists, academics, trade unionists and artists from eight countries have participated:
Venezuela, Spain, Cuba, Nicaragua, Mexico, Argentina, Colombia and Chile.
The complaint that this was a forced disappearance caused the Bolivarian government to close the office of the
High Commissioner for Human Rights in Caracas
and expel its 13 officials. "Rocío has not been able to sit face to face with her lawyers, she is defenseless," warns former Chilean Foreign Minister
Antonia Urrejola.
"Rocío is Spanish, like me," recalls the
former vice mayor of Madrid, Begoña Villacís.
San Miguel, who chairs the NGO
Citizen Control for Security, Defense and the National Armed Forces,
has dual nationality, Spanish and Venezuelan. Also his daughter
De el Miranda,
detained and missing for three days. Miranda is currently subject to precautionary measures, which prevent her from returning to Madrid, where she lives. Last year she graduated in
Journalism from the Complutense University.
Former political prisoners participate in the campaign, such as the Venezuelan
Sairam Rivas,
and mothers who have been fighting for years for justice after the murder of their children, such as
Rosa Orozco
and
Elvira Llovera,
along with human rights activists such as
Tamara Suju,
involved in the same "conspiracy" as Rocío San Miguel.
The Cuban opposition figure
Rosa María Payá,
the Nicaraguan
Berta Valle,
the Venezuelans
Dinorah Figuera, Lilian Tintori, Elisa Trotta and Fabiana Rosales,
the Argentineans
María Eugenia Vidal
and
Karina Banfi
and the Mexican
Mariana Gómez,
among others, also added their voices to an initiative that is already circulating on social networks.