Venezuelan opposition activist dies in jail

A Venezuelan opposition activist who was arrested during anti -government protests in January died in jail, said his party.

Reinaldo Araujo, a Venezuelan party leader in the state of Trujillo, had suffered health problems, which his wife said they were not treated while in prison.

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According to the NGO of the Venezuelan prison observatory, 20 political prisoners have died while they are in custody in recent years.

Vente Venezuela said that Araujo had been seized by masked men on January 9 during a protest on the eve of Nicolás Maduro’s sworn for a third term as president.

His wife said he had returned from a medical appointment and that he had simply been watching the protest when they took him.

He had been in state custody since then.

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His wife accuses the authorities not to give medical attention to her husband until she was too late, although she had warned that her health had deteriorated.

The head of the Regional Organization of the Corps of the American States (OAS), Luis Almagro, denounced the death of Araujo, writing in X that it was a “new atrocity of the regime.”

He added: “No more political prisoners, no more torture, no more death.”

Almagro has been an open critic of Nicolás Maduro, accusing the Venezuelan leader to suppress the opposition in the previous period and the consequences of July’s presidential elections.

The National Electoral Council of Venezuela (CNE), an agency closely aligned with the Government, told Maduro the winner of the elections without providing detailed voting holders to support their claim.

The OAS electoral observation department said he could not recognize the result because the CNE “was biased towards the government.”

The opposition coalition of Venezuela also refused to recognize the result, saying that voting the headlines that had met, with the help of official election observers, showed that his candidate, Edmundo González, was the overwhelming winner.

The opposition also organized protests on the eve of Maduro’s sworn and was in one of those events that Reinaldo Araujo was seized.

According to the Venezuelan prison observatory, hundreds of protesters were arrested in the days prior to the inauguration of Maduro and sent to the prisons known for the abuse of the detainees.

Among the seized was Rafael Tudares, son -in -law of Edmundo González.

Mr. Tubudares’s wife says they have not given her information about her husband’s whereabouts since the security forces took him on January 7.

She also accused the government of keeping her husband to exert pressure on Edmundo González, who lives in exile and has met presidents throughout the region, many of whom have recognized him as the legitimate leader of Venezuela.