Venezuela: Maduro's secret police raid the house of Juan Guaidó's uncle

Ludmila Vinogradoff

02/20/2020 - 10:39

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From early morning on Thursday the secret police of the regime of Nicolás Maduro is reviewing the residence of Juan José Márquez , uncle of the Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó, where his wife and 5 young children live, in the Caracas neighborhood of Altamira .

The alert of the strange revision or search without judicial orders was given by the National Assembly and the first lady, Fabiana Rosales, through the account of the "Presidency of Guaidó".

The cowardly dictatorship is paving my uncle Juan Márquez's house. With the repressive and persecution bodies, they seek to continue with this farce that no one believes.

If they think we are going to go back in the actions we have taken and we are going to take, they are wrong.

We will advance. https://t.co/oZF2VWABrm

“9 days after his abduction in the DGCIM. We alert the world of planting (implantation of false evidence) that they can do at home, where only his wife and children are; Juan Márquez is innocent, ”Fabiana wrote.

At the door of the residence of the Marquez was at 8 in the morning the defense lawyer. "All that the secret police of the Sebin is doing as sowing or implanting supposed evidence in the residence of Márquez is to harm Guaidó to break his will and force him to negotiate with the regime his delivery," said lawyer Joel García when highlighting the irregularity that 9 days later review your residence.

#ALERT | Lawyer @ joelgarcia69: “everything that is happening in the home of Juan Jose Márquez and his family, is the responsibility of the dictator Nicolas Maduro, we remember that inside are his minor children" pic.twitter.com/qJbDheYTbm

Romina de Márquez, wife of Guaido's uncle, has not been able to see her husband since she was arrested nine days ago at Simón Bolívar de Maiquetía International Airport after accompanying Guaidó from Lisbon on the flight of the Portuguese airline TAP.

According to his lawyer Joel García, the pilot Juan José Márquez, who is in the DGCIM military prison, denounced for his torture, the regime's courts charged him with the crime of alleged trafficking of weapons and explosives, but not terrorism, with evidence False C-4 explosives containing a flashlight and a perfume bottle.

But the most surprising thing in the judicial record of the alleged evidence that incriminate it is a Venezuelan flag that Márquez carried in his luggage with 7 and not 8 stars, and Simón Bolívar's white horse looking to the right and not to the left as He had ordered Hugo Chavez to change before he died of cancer.

This new action against the next of kin of the president in charge is part of the offensive and reprisals that the regime has taken to “bend Guaidó,” said lawyer García, stressing that the regime's attacks are also against US citizens. because one of Marquez’s 5 children has US citizenship.

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