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Chavez regime kidnaps Venezuelan dissidents Williams Davila and Américo de Grazia

Chavez regime kidnaps Venezuelan dissidents Williams Davila and Américo de Grazia

This was the arrest of Williams Davila in Caracas.

Activists and political parties in Venezuela denounced the kidnapping of opposition leaders. Williams Davila and Americo De Grazia In Caracas.

The NGO Defiende Venezuela noted on the social network: Chavista groups “kidnapped Williams Davila, former governor of Merida state” while he was in Los Palos Grandes Square. In the Venezuelan capital. He warned that “his whereabouts are unknown.”

Williams Davila, former governor of Merida

Maria de Grazia, daughter of former deputy Américo de Grazia, said her father was being held at the headquarters of the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service (SEBIN), known as El Helicoide, in Caracas.

“After more than 24 hours without knowing where he was (…), we discovered (that) they had found him in El Helicoid (…). We don’t know what charges he is facing. “They don’t have an arrest warrant for my father, we have no evidence that he is alive, and we don’t know what conditions they put him in.” Américo de Grazia’s daughter denounced this on Instagram.

The woman said her father was “persecuted” after the presidential election, the official result of which confirmed Nicolás Maduro’s victory, but which the largest opposition coalition – as did much of the international community – questioned due to irregularities in the process.

Americo de Grazia at a session of the Venezuelan National Assembly (archive photo)
Americo de Grazia at a session of the Venezuelan National Assembly (archive photo)

The daughter of the former deputy of the opposition Democratic Unity Table coalition in Bolivar state reported that she had lost contact since Wednesday afternoon with De Grazia, who “did not arrive” at “the place where he was staying.”

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For its part, the La Cosa R party reported that “The Last Letter” by De Grazia in

“The integrity of both rests with the Maduro regime,” Causa R stated through X.

After the presidential election on July 28, opponents denounced the arrest of other political leaders such as Freddy Soberlano and Roland CarrenoBoth are from the Popular Will party, as well as local leaders linked to the largest opposition coalition, the Democratic Platform for Unity.

The Venezuelan NGO Penal Forum indicated on Thursday that at least 16 people with disabilities have been arrested in Venezuela in the context of the protests and police and military action launched after the July 28 elections. In its daily update, the organization that leads the defense of political prisoners in the country indicated that it had also verified the arrest of 1,229 people who had already been identified.

(With information from EFE)