The Minister of the Interior of Venezuela, Diosdado Cabello, has accused the opposition of trying to orchestrate a case of “false positive” with the arrest of dissident leader María Corina Machado, who this Thursday had attended a demonstration in favor of the opposition candidate Edmundo González on the outskirts of Caracas.
Cabello, who has participated in a concentration parallel to that of the oppositionhas slipped that Machado and his team have tried to “cover” its limited ability to attract “with a false positive.” “They immediately let it spread through the networks that they lied that she was kidnapped, that María Corina Machado was detained,” he said.
At this point, the Chavista Interior Minister has denounced that, Beyond the opposition’s complaint, “no one said anything” more on this, but that several countries, “vagrant former presidents” and political organizations have come forward to reject Machado’s arrest when he was actually free.
“I guarantee you that if the decision were to stop her, she would already be detained. But she was begging (to be arrested) and all that information came from outside without a single reason,” Cabello reproached, who assures that the news “was already set up” by the main opposition speakers.
Previously, even before Machado’s team confirmed his release, the Foreign Minister, Yván Gil, has accused the opposition of trying to carry out “a false flag operation, mocking the right and international fascism, which He immediately went out to lie as usual“.
“The virulence of the reaction of governments and international extremist figures only points out the complicity among those who do not accept that the opposition is a complete failureand they act as always, making a major fool of themselves,” added Gil, who recalls that Machado has “several legal cases open.”
“Violently intercepted” by the regime
Machado’s campaign team had denounced that it had been “violently intercepted” by the regime, although hours later she confirmed that she has been released after being forced to record several videos. Before this confirmation, alleged videos of Machado claiming to be free were already circulating on social networks.
In fact, Gil had referred to that supposed video to slip that Machado’s arrest would have been fake news spread by his political party. “Who would think of putting on such a show to cover up the resounding failure of their call today?” he asked.
On the other hand, the person in charge of the Communication Department, Freddy Ñáñez, has also echoed Machado’s alleged video and has accused the opposition of carry out a “media distraction maneuver” which is not surprising, “less so coming from the fascists who are the architects of the deception.”
“A few minutes ago the right sold the idea that MCM (Machado’s initials) had been attacked and detained by ‘regime motorists’. And by virtue of the failure of the hoax they themselves come out to recant it. Neither could they cover up the failure of their call today, January 9, nor the absence of Edmundo on the 10th,” he said.
Machado’s arrest occurred after participating in an opposition rally on the outskirts of Caracas called by her with the aim of showing support for the opposition candidate Edmundo González, who will theoretically take office on Friday, although Nicolás Maduro has stated that he will also will do it.
Shortly after, the governments of several countries, including Spain, have come forward to demand the immediate release of the opposition leader; while, on the other hand, the president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, has slipped on his social networks that Machado’s arrest could be “fake news.”