Highlights: In Venezuela, Machado denounces the arrest of the fourth person responsible for his campaign. In Venezuela, the authorities are not letting up their pressure on the opposition just over four months before the presidential election, set for July 28. This Saturday, March 9, a fourth leader of the camp of the main opponent of President Nicolás Maduro was arrested, while María Corina Machado is, for the moment, not authorized to appear. Emill Brandt could join the three other relatives of MaríaCorinaMachado at the Helicoid, a prison managed by Venezuelan intelligence.

In Venezuela, the authorities are not letting up their pressure on the opposition just over four months before the presidential election, set for July 28. This Saturday, March 9, a fourth leader of…

In Venezuela, Machado denounces the arrest of the fourth person responsible for his campaign

In Venezuela, the authorities are not letting up their pressure on the opposition just over four months before the presidential election, set for July 28.

This Saturday, March 9, a fourth leader of the camp of the main opponent of President Nicolás Maduro was arrested, while María Corina Machado is, for the moment, not authorized to appear.

Opposition coalition presidential candidate María Corina Machado gives a news conference outside her campaign headquarters in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, Jan. 29, 2024, days after the country's highest court upheld the banning of his candidacy.

AP - Ariana Cubillos

By: RFI Follow

Even though the

Venezuelan

justice system declared him ineligible, María Corina Machado continues to frighten the authorities.

This Saturday, March 9, as announced by the woman who wishes to run for the presidency of the country, it was her campaign leader, Emill Brandt, who was arrested.

The leader of the Venezuelan opposition denounces a kidnapping.

“

His family does not know where he is

,” details a press release from the Sale Venezuela party, the formation of María Corina Machado.

This is the fourth person in her entourage who has been arrested since she indicated that she wanted to run against outgoing President

Nicolás Maduro

in the elections scheduled for July 28.

Read alsoVenezuela: excluded from the presidential election, Maria Corina Machado insists on the necessary negotiation with power

Violation of the Barbados Agreement

Emill Brandt could join the three other relatives of María Corina Machado at the Helicoid, a prison managed by Venezuelan intelligence and which is the subject of numerous denunciations from NGOs who describe it as a “

torture center

” .

For María Corina Machado, this arrest constitutes a new violation of the Barbados agreement signed last October between the government and the opposition.

This was to give candidates wishing to run the opportunity to challenge their ineligibility in court.

What María Corina Machado had done last January, but the Supreme Court, accused of being in the hands of those in power,

had confirmed her ineligibility

, de facto ruling out the one who had won the

Venezuelan opposition

primary with 92% of the votes .

WORLD ALERT!

We know that the Venezuelans and the world that the regime of Nicolás Maduro was seized by our new Director of the State Command of Barinas, Emill Brandt, only one hour later than recorded this state.

After 47 days we will see our Directors…

— María Corina Machado (@MariaCorinaYA) March 9, 2024

Read alsoVenezuela: the opposition contests the judicial decision making their representative ineligible

In Venezuela, Machado denounces the arrest of the fourth person responsible for his campaign

In Venezuela, Machado denounces the arrest of the fourth person responsible for his campaign

Violation of the Barbados Agreement

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