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The head of the National Assembly of Venezuela (AN, Parliament), Juan Guaidó, asked this Monday evening the "respect for life" of the agents who stopped him last Sunday in a confused action that the regime of Nicolás Maduro described as a "false positive".
"I demand respect for the lives of these officials, I demand respect, if they are detained you must know and get to the bottom," said the president of AN in an interview with a local journalist sent via Instagram.
Guaidó added that he was making this request because he is aware of alleged "torture" against detained military dissidents in Venezuelan prisons.
The president of the National Assembly was held on Sunday by intelligence officials (Sebin) while traveling on the highway that connects Caracas to the coastal state of Vargas, where it is natural.
The deputy, who presided over a town hall opened in front of a thousand people, said he spoke of "reconciliation" with the agents who arrested him and who finally released him after half an hour.
But the government of Maduro indicated shortly after the arrest of the opposition, which was known with a video that circulated on social networks, that the incident was a "false positive", while he reported that he proceeded to dismiss the people involved.
In a statement to the state channel VTV, the Minister of Information of Venezuela, Jorge Rodriguez, stated that the arrest of the deputy was a "one-sided" act perpetrated by officials who lent themselves "to have this show "and they said that the authorities" will discover and establish "the responsibilities in this sense.
But Guaidó said that "in any case", what happened during his brief detention was a "order-against-order" situation that showed that the Maduro government did not control the forcess police in the country.
The arrest of the Venezuelan parliamentary leader occurred in the new chapter of the political tension between the opposition – which controls the parliament – and Maduro, who swore on Thursday a new 6-year term whose legitimacy does not recognize anti -Chavez and part of the international community.
In this sense, Guaidó requested last week to help the military, the citizens and the international community to put an end to what it considers to be the usurpation of the presidency of Maduro – in office since 2013 – which has already rejected These actions and have assured that it will remain in office at least until 2025.
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