Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido on Tuesday denounced the
"enforced disappearance"
of three of his collaborators since the departure of his mentor, Leopoldo Lopez, to Madrid after spending 18 months in the residence of the Spanish ambassador in Caracas .
"Journalist Roland Carreño as well as Yeferson Sarcos and Elias Rodriguez have been missing for more than 12 hours,"
tweeted the Speaker of Parliament, recognized as interim president by some fifty countries, including the United States.
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The National College of Journalists (CNP) for its part assured that Roland Carreño
"is detained"
at the headquarters of the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service, in the capital Caracas.
Venezuelan authorities have not confirmed the information.
The three opponents have
"disappeared since Monday"
at 5.30 p.m. (local time), according to the director of the human rights NGO Foro Penal, Alfredo Romero, who has 359 "political prisoners" in the country .
Washington, the main supporter of Juan Guaido, denounced the
"enforced disappearance"
of Roland Carreño, operational coordinator of Voluntad Popular, the party of Leopoldo Lopez from which Juan Guaido came.
The "disappearances" occurred after Leopoldo Lopez left for Spain on Sunday.
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Sentenced to nearly fourteen years in prison in 2015 for inciting violence during anti-government demonstrations that had resulted in the death of 43 people and more than 3,000 injured between February and May 2014, Leopoldo Lopez was placed in 2017 under house arrest.
On April 30, 2019, he was released and participated in an attempt to overthrow Nicolás Maduro, approved by Juan Guaido.
Failed by the army's support for the Venezuelan president, Leopoldo Lopez had found refuge in the residence of the Spanish ambassador.
During a press conference in Madrid on Tuesday, Leopoldo Lopez denounced the fact that
"in recent hours very close people have disappeared under the dictatorship"
.