The opponent Edmundo González announced that on January 10, 2025 he will go to Venezuela to take office as president. This, while 67 children and adolescents who participated in the opposition demonstrations remain deprived of their liberty and accused of terrorism. Their mothers denounce torture and cruel treatment.
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Mocking screams were heard from inside a detention center in La Guaira, after children and minors were taken prisoner after protests that took place after the presidential elections on July 28.
What was heard in the screams?
Mom: “Stay calm son.”
Son: “Mom…he hit me in the face.”
Mom: “What an abuser, okay.”
One of them, barely 15 years old, fainted and had to be taken to a care center. The mothers, fearing reprisals, told Noticias Caracol live, protecting their identity.
“Even the small group that they caught with him, They all beat him that day of the arrest, because it is not just my son, it is the children of many mothers,” said the mother of one of the detained minors.
Another mother of a young baseball player, a prospective professional player, also cried out for the freedom of her son, whom they went looking for at his house to arrest him, accusing him of having protested after the elections.
“They did ‘Operation Tun Tun’ on him and when they couldn’t get him, they went looking for me, to my work, for terrorism and inciting hatred and obstruction of public roads. He is waiting for the process, but he is already desperate. He’s already crying, he’s already telling me he can’t stand it. “One is not used to being there,” says the mother of another of the detained young people.
A few hours ago, a group of mothers, whose minor children are imprisoned in other states of the country, denounced malnutrition and cruel treatment towards their children, after filing an appeal for protection before the Supreme Court of Justice.
“My son is malnourished, my son is sick. “They are giving them food with worms, they are not giving them water.”said Mireya González, mother of the detained young man.
For her part, Wendy Liendo, another mother of one of the detained young people,” said: “There are boys with serious health problems and several have attempted suicide.”
To these young people They are not allowed private defense. Many of them went to trial accused of, among other crimes, terrorism.
In the state of La Guaira there are nine minors detained after the elections on July 28. In total throughout the country there are 67 children and adolescents, but In Venezuela there are 1,905 people who were captured after election day.
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Source: https://www.noticiascaracol.com/mundo/madres-de-menores-denuncian-torturas-a-sus-hijos-en-venezuela-me-pego-en-la-cara-rg10
