Chavismo justifies the arrest of the opponent Guanipa after being released from prison for “putting on a show” and “generating violence”

During the broadcast of With the gavel givinghis weekly television program, Cabello contrasted Guanipa’s actions with that of the several hundred political prisoners released by the new regime of Delcy Rodriguez in recent weeks.

While “none” of the released prisoners have “come out in an attitude of causing any kind of inconvenience to other people on the street,” Guanipa put on “a previously prepared show” and “violated” the conditions of releasein the opinion of the head of the Caracas police and intelligence forces.

Cabello, who has insistently denied that there are political prisoners in Venezuela, thus justified Guanipa’s arrest a few hours after being released. A movement that has shown that Chavismo maintains control of the repressive apparatus despite the opening registered after the capture of Nicolas Maduro and guardianship of the Trump Administration.

“If he violates the house-to-jail measure, he will have to return to jail(…) Now he is detained there in his house in the (state of) Zulia because of himself, because they insist on trying to generate violence in the street,” Cabello said during his program, broadcast on the state channel Venezuelan Television (VTV).

Ramón Guanipa, son of the opponent, rejected the accusations of the Venezuelan Minister of the Interior and defended that his father “never incited violence,” according to the agency. Efe. “The only thing he did was accompany the families of political prisonersto encourage them, to try to lift their spirits, because they have been camping outside the detention centers for weeks,” he stated.

The son of the former deputy and former vice president of the National Assembly pointed out that the Government is the “only one that has the possibility of generating violence” because it has “control of the Armed Forces and police of the country.” “The only thing they know is to lie and persecute”he added.

Juan Pablo Guanipa, also a close collaborator of the opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Corina Machadowas released on Sunday after being detained since May of last year. In statements to the press after his release from prison, he advocated reconciliation in Venezuela “with the truth” and said that the South American nation “has the right to be free.”

Along with former Caracas councilor Jesús Armas, also released on Sunday, He led a motorcycle caravan that day and cars that left from the west of Caracas to various prisons, in support of the relatives of political prisoners who remain outside detention centers since the beginning of the release process.

However, during the night of Sunday it was reported that Guanipa was detained by “unidentified men” from a chavista commando who intercepted his vehicle. On Tuesday, his son announced that the opponent was already under house arrest at his residence in Maracaibo, capital of Zulia, in the northwest of the country.