The Bolivarian revolution has already claimed its first victim in the persecution launched against the opposition leader, María Corina Machado. This is Roberto Abdul, president of the electoral organization Súmate and who was also part of the National Primary Committee (CNP), in charge of organizing the historic milestone of the opposition primaries in October.
The liberal leader founded Súmate in 2002 and served as its president before leaving the NGO in 2009. As soon as Abdul’s arrest and transfer to the Bolivarian Intelligence Service (Sebin) was reported, Machado reacted to complain to the international community “a strong reaction.”
On Wednesday, the Bolivarian prosecutor launched the attack against collaborators very close to the leader of Vente Venezuela, who despite being illegally disqualified by the Government of Nicolás Maduro, leads all the polls for next year’s presidential elections with advantages of up to 60 points above the people’s president. In addition to important leaders in exile, such as Leopoldo López and Juan Guaidó, the revolution has targeted three key people for Machado’s political machinery: Henry Alviárez (national coordinator of the party), Claudia Macero (head of Communication) and Pedro Urruchurtu (International Relations coordinator).
With this maneuver, Chavismo once again intentionally strikes against the Barbados agreements between the Government and the opposition supervised by the United States. This time with the famous “revolving door”, denounced for years by the Venezuelan Penal Forum, in charge of watching over political prisoners. After the October signing, the revolution has only freed five prisoners of the 275 who currently suffer Bolivarian cruelty in their dungeons. Instead, he is already threatening new arrests.
“Far from stopping us, it gives us more strength to continue. If they want to get out of the electoral route, we continue on it,” Machado responded firmly once the attack began, which aims to weaken it politically and pierce its party structure, as already stated. did in 2019 against the then acting president, Juan Guaidó.
“The events of these last few hours are very serious. Roberto Abdul’s only activity has been to provide help through the NGO Súmate to the parties that have requested it. They are all honorable people, who have given everything for their country. Their families are terrified because, evidently, this generates enormous anguish in everyone in the party and in civil society organizations that are committed to the fight for freedom in Venezuela. We continue forward,” Machado denounced before the European Parliament. through a video.
Journalist Macero, highly esteemed in the profession, immediately counted on the solidarity of her colleagues. “We reject the judicialization and vindicate her professional career, as well as the exercise of her citizen rights. We warn about the imminent violation of her freedoms,” warned the Press Workers Union.
Chavismo marks them all as traitors to the country, in addition to including them in a dark conspiracy only possible in the propaganda rhetoric of the Venezuelan ruling party. It so happens that Roland Carreño, a journalist and activist very close to Guaidó, suffered three years in prison and was released precisely with the Barbados Accords. Roberto Marrero, right-hand man of the former legislative president, spent 17 months in prison and the Spanish-Venezuelan strategic advisor Demóstenes Quijada endured five months of mistreatment in a cell at Helicoide, the main headquarters of Sebin.
