After her first public appearance in months, Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado was kidnapped after a protest rally, according to opposition candidate Edmundo González.
“To the security forces who kidnapped her, I say: do not play with fire,” González wrote on X, calling for her immediate release.
The opposition campaign platform had previously announced that Machado had been forcibly intercepted. Government members shot at the motorcycles she was being transported on. The opposition leader had just left a meeting.
Machado left her shelter for the first time in months and joined the protests she had called by thousands of people against the planned swearing-in of authoritarian President Nicolás Maduro. “I am here, with you, and until the end,” she wrote on X. The 57-year-old did not appear in public after the election for security reasons.
People across the country took to the streets with slogans such as “Glory to the brave,” as seen in photos on online networks.
Maduro is sworn in
After Venezuela’s presidential elections in July, opposition candidate Edmundo González claimed victory. The US and several Latin American countries recognize him as the winner of the elections. However, the loyal electoral authority declared head of state Maduro, who has been in power for almost twelve years, the election winner. He will be sworn in on Friday.
González left for Spain in early September and applied for political asylum there. He recently announced that he would return to his home country and be sworn in as president of the South American country on Friday. However, there is an arrest warrant for him in Venezuela.
Source: Krone
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