Venezuela: “35 days without electricity”, denounce asylum seekers in the Argentine embassy in Venezuela

The five leaders of the opposition Venezuelan refugees in the residence of the Argentine ambassador in Caracas They denounced this Saturday that they have been without electricity for “35 days,” part of what they previously defined as a “siege” of the diplomatic headquarters.

“It is a violation of our rights. humans”, wrote in X Magalli Meda right hand of the opposition leader Maria Corina Machado there since March. “Our safe passages are a right.”

“35 days without electricity”, he added. “It is a prison embassy.”

Meda and the rest of Machado’s collaborators are accused of conspiring against the president’s government Nicolas Maduro. At first there were six, but a week ago one of them, Fernando Martínez Mottolait was delivered and has probation.

The opposition led by Machado maintains that its candidate Edmundo González Urrutia He won the July 28 elections and not Maduro, as announced by the electoral authority, accused of serving him.

The embassy has been without diplomatic staff since August, after the breakdown of relations in response to questions from the president’s government. Javier Miley to the re-election of Maduro.

And the refugees have been denouncing for more than a month a “siege” police against the diplomatic headquarters: they maintain that armed officials surround it, prevent the entry of food and also cut off the water supply.

The Minister of the Interior, the powerful leader Diosdado Cabello denied such siege and said that the cutoff of public services was due to lack of payment.

Brazil announced in August that it was assuming custody of the diplomatic delegation of Argentina with permission of Caracas which a month later revoked its decision. However, the government of Lula da Silva He insisted that he will continue to defend the interests of his neighbor.

“No ambassador has come to this embassy, ​​none. Have they tried it? Surely someone would like”Meda questioned. “The truth is that the regime and its foreign ministry ‘require’ you to remain silent” o “Otherwise they will be expelled.”

The relationship Buenos Aires-Caracas It has become even more tense after the arrest of an Argentine gendarme in Venezuela, who is accused of “terrorism.”

His family insists that he came as tourist to visit his Venezuelan partner and son, who were in the country.

The Milei government called the action “kidnapping” y “an almost act of war.”