Death of the opponent Jesús Martínez in the custody of the regime “is a crime”: María Corina Machado

Opposition leader María Corina Machado condemned the death of her party member, Jesús Martínez, who was detained by Nicolás Maduró’s regime on July 29, one day after the disputed elections in Venezuela.

“This is a crime, this is a murder“Machado told AFP, from hiding. “His own companions who were imprisoned implored the guards to take him to a hospital, his mother spent days and days begging for him to be transferred.. When he arrived at the hospital (…) he was practically without the possibility of salvation,” added the opponent who in X blamed Maduro.

Machado stressed that Jesús Martínez was arrested “without a search warrant and without any reason. He was transferred to inhumane cells in Anzoátegui, he was severely mistreated and was in such precarious hygienic conditions that he had necrosis in both legs.”

“The doctors saw the gangrenous legs, they said they had to be amputated, but with little chance of success,” he noted.

Former anti-Chavista presidential candidate Enrique Márquez said that the death of Jesús Manuel Martínez Medida, detained after the presidential elections on July 28, is “one more example” of the “systematic violation” of human rights and the Venezuelan Constitution “by of the State”.

“We are under a Government that insists on opting for force and abuse, instead of building peace, the well-being of the people. The return to the Constitution is not a whim, it is an obligation if we want peace,” said the opponent. through X.

Likewise, he believes that this death “should generate, as an immediate reaction (…), the full freedom of all Venezuelans deprived of liberty” after the presidential elections – estimated at more than 2,400 by the Executive -, when protests against the official result of the elections, which gave a disputed victory to Nicolás Maduro.

“I join in the pain of his mother and his family. This death, unjust, cowardly, shows the martyrdom of the children of this country in the face of indolent power“said Márquez.

So far, the Executive has not commented on Medina’s death or on the accusations of the opponents and organizations that reported the case.