The Venezuelan opposition reported the death of Jesus Manuel Martinezwho was arbitrarily detained on July 29 after having been an electoral witness (prosecutor) in the presidential elections.
The Unitary Platform explained that Martínez He lost his life in the custody of security forces. regimea product of the inhuman treatment and lack of medical care he suffered in prison.
According to previous reports, while Martínez was incarcerated, his leg was amputated due to necrosis he had. “given the diabetes he suffered from, aggravated by mistreatment, the lack of health care and the inhumane conditions of the prison”.
“Another victim of Nicolás Maduro regime that puts all Venezuelans in mourning. How long will we have to continue suffering the loss of fighters, of friends by a regime that clings to power?“, questioned the anti-Chavista leader Eduardo Batistini on social networks by also confirming the news with the victim’s relatives.
For her part, the activist Elisa Trotta He pointed out that the event reflects the brutal State terrorism in Venezuelawhere the dictatorship persecutes and punishes the truth with the purpose of silencing any hope for change. “Jesus is one more victim of state terrorism that must be repudiated by the entire world. “No half measures”he stated in his statement through the networks.
Martinez Medina He was one of the members of the so-called “comanditos” of the oppositioncivil society groups that were accredited and trained in the campaign command of Edmundo González Urrutia for the task of being electoral witnesses in the elections on July 28.
One of the main functions of witnesses opponents was to obtain, despite the restrictions of the regime in the voting centers, the minutes that validate the defeat of Maduro before the democratic alternative.
Once the results are known, in which the regime carried out electoral fraud by announcing and proclaiming Maduro as winner, oppositionled by Maria Corina Machadopublished more than 80% of the electoral records supporting his complaint of fraud and demonstrating the triumph of the distance about Chavismo.
From that moment, the forces of the Caracas dictatorship were deployed in the search and capture of dozens of witnesses. opposition electoral to frighten, through an operation called “tun-tun”, those who participated and prevent further dissemination of the scandal generated by the fraud.
The “tun-tun” operation, whose name recalls the sound of knocking on a door, the security forces They unleashed an unprecedented wave of persecution, irregularly entering the homes of dissidents and taking them away before the astonished gaze of neighbors and relatives. With this, the Chavismo managed to expand its campaign of terror and dissolve the protests that broke out throughout the territoryrejecting the imposed re-election of Maduro.
