The US is “deeply concerned” about the arrest of Venezuelan Rocío San Miguel

U.S is “deeply concerned” about the detention of the activist and specialist in military issues Rocío São Miguel in Venezuela and is monitoring the situation “very, very closely,” said a spokesperson for The White House.

Also, the human rights office of the UN expressed his “deep concern“Due to the situation Holy Miguel. “We call for his immediate release and respect for his right to legal defense.”“, indicated that organization on the social network X.

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Holy Miguela 57-year-old lawyer, was arrested when she was preparing to travel out of Venezuela. Five other family members were also arrested: the daughter, two brothers, the father and the ex-husband.

One of his defense lawyers called him “forced disappearance”, but the attorney general Venezuela, Tarek William Saabreported that she will be charged with “betrayal of the country“,”terrorism” It is “conspiracy”.

“We are aware of reports that Dew Holy Miguel, and I believe some of his family members were arrested. “We are deeply concerned about this.”said the spokesman for the National Security Council of The White House, John Kirby.

“I’m not going to speculate about what happened. exactly here or what we could do as a result. But I can say that we are watching this very, very closely.” he added.

The White House has raised its tone several times in recent weeks against the Venezuelan president Nicolás Madurowhoever accuses of not complying with the Barbados achieved in October with the opposition, which set the presidential elections for the second half of the year.

The agreement also consisted of lifting the disqualification of all candidates for the elections, but the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) ratified what weighed on the opposition leader Maria Corina Machado.

Maduro “has to fulfill the commitments he made in the fall about how he will treat civil society, political activists and opposition parties, and even members of Venezuelan society who want to run as candidates” in the elections, he added. Kirby.

Faced with these reactions, the Venezuelan prosecutor Saab reported this Tuesday a “fierce campaign”from abroad, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Venezuela Yvan Gil accused the US government of “protect and protect terrorists”also in X publications.

In January washington reimposed sanctions on state gold mining company Venezuelawhich he raised in October, and threatened to do the same in April with the oil and gas sector if the Venezuelan government persists in not complying with the agreement.

Link to Venezuelan authorities Dew Holy Miguel, of Venezuelan and Spanish nationality, with an alleged conspiracy against Maduro. Where she is being held and the conditions in which she is held are unknown.

He Venezuelan government generally denounces conspiratorial plans against Maturecandidate for his third re-election in the presidential elections.

Source: Elcomercio

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