Edmundo González on the attack on María Corina Machado’s caravan: “Don’t play with fire”

In the midst of the complicated situation in Venezuela hours after the controversial inauguration of Nicolás Maduro, Edmundo González spoke about the temporary detention of María Corina Machado after the opposition marches in Caracas.

“As president-elect, I demand the immediate release of María Corina Machado. To the security forces that kidnapped her I say: do not play with fire,” the opposition leader wrote on his social networks.

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What is known about the arrest and subsequent release of María Corina Machado

After leading a protest against the inauguration of Nicolás Maduro that will take place on Friday, María Corina Machado was arrested this Thursday. However, hours later, amid the uncertainty over what happened, a video was released in which the leader of the opposition in Venezuela assures that “I am fine and safe.”

According to the information, the arrest of Machado, who has already been released, occurred shortly after leaving on a motorcycle from a demonstration in the Chacao commercial neighborhood of Caracas, which brought together hundreds of opponents. According to what was known, the woman was detained by the Maduro regime, forced to record some videos and later released.

A video was released of the opposition leader saying that “she is fine and free.” Later, her party wrote the following: “She was intercepted and knocked off the motorcycle she was riding on. Firearms were detonated in the event. She was forcibly taken away. During the period of her kidnapping she was forced to record several videos and then she was released.”

Edmundo González speaks out after knowing the freedom of María Corina Machado

Edmundo González spoke out through his social networks, after it became known that the opposition leader was intercepted by the Venezuelan government, forced to record some videos and later released.

Faced with this, the president of Venezuela classified the events as “a kidnapping in conditions of violence”, despite the announcement about Machado’s freedom.

“Very serious! That María Corina is free does not minimize the fact of what happened, she was kidnapped in conditions of violence,” González wrote through his X account:

Very serious! That María Corina is free does not minimize the fact that what happened, she was kidnapped under conditions of violence. https://t.co/J5qx2mbthQ

— Edmundo González (@EdmundoGU) January 9, 2025

The reappearance of María Corina Machado

Machado reappeared in Caracas surrounded by hundreds of followers, after remaining underground since last August 28, when she participated in another protest in favor of the claimed victory of González Urrutia, despite the fact that the Venezuelan National Electoral Council (CNE) proclaimed the Maduro’s victory.

More than four months after his last public appearance and one day before the presidential inauguration, which both Maduro and González Urrutia promise to assume, Machado appeared on the street to claim, once again, the opposition victory in the last elections. July 28.

“I have never felt so proud in my life. All over Venezuela people took to the streets“she said, upon arriving at the place where thousands of people had been waiting for her hours before.

Likewise, he assured that the next few days will be “historic and decisive for the freedom” of the Caribbean country, as part of the “impressive” citizen movement.

Shortly after, Human Rights Watch confirmed she had been intercepted and leaders from different European and Latin American countries quickly expressed their concern and called for her release.

Edmundo González did so through his

The opposition leader participated in the Dominican capital in a rally called by the Con Venezuela Comando RD collective, in which he predicted that “very soon” the streets of Caracas They will be filled with “joy.”

The Dominican Republic is the last country on González’s tour, which also included Argentina, Uruguay, the United States and Panama, to gather support this week before the January 10 investiture.

González Urrutia maintains that he won the elections last July in Venezuela and maintains his desire to return to his country to assume the Presidency, while Nicolás Maduro is preparing to take the oath of office this Friday supported by the country’s electoral authorities, controlled by Chavismo.