Vente Venezuela, owned by opposition leader María Corina Machado, accused security forces of detaining two party members, Miguel Grenados and Marcos Castillo.
"Miguel Granados was detained last weekend in Caracas. He was taken from a restaurant by regime officials. His whereabouts are unknown. This highlights a new wave of repression by the regime that has increased significantly in recent hours" , denounced the party's Human Rights Commission.
On the social network X (formerly Twitter), Vente Venezuela also alleged that "the regime kidnapped Marcos Castillo, lawyer and member of the Comando Com a Venezuela" in Apure, in the southwest of the country.
"Bolivarian National Police officials forcibly removed him from the Apure courts, where political persecution and criminalization have increased in recent days. His whereabouts are unknown. We alert the international community about this situation and hold the regime responsible for anything that may happen to him ", denounced the party.
Stephanie Labrador, daughter of deputy Eduardo Labrador, from Vente Venezuela, urged the Venezuelan authorities on Wednesday to disclose information about the whereabouts of her father, arbitrarily detained 12 days ago by the police in Zúlia, in the west of the country, near the border with Venezuela. Colombia.
The Venezuelan National College of Journalists (CNP, the entity responsible for granting the professional license) expressed, on Wednesday, deep concern about the disappearance of journalist Nelin Escalante, more than 96 hours ago.
According to the CNP, Escalante met with heads of military intelligence on Sunday in a shopping mall in Caracas and then went with them to the agency's headquarters for another meeting.
“Since then, there has been no communication with the journalist,” explained the CNP, on the X social network.
Edgar Cárdenas, president of the CNP, said that 15 journalists and press workers are detained in Venezuela, 12 of them for doing their job and the other three for maintaining a critical position against the Venezuelan regime.
According to the Venezuelan non-governmental organization Foro Penal (FP), as of October 25, 1,953 people were detained for political reasons in Venezuela, the highest number recorded in the 21st century.
According to the PF, among those detained, 1,711 are men and 242 women and 1,792 are civilians and 161 military personnel, including 69 teenagers.
Venezuela, a country with a large community of Portuguese and Portuguese descendants, held presidential elections on July 28, after which the National Electoral Council awarded victory to the country's current President, Nicolas Maduro, aged just over 51. % of the votes, while the opposition claims that its candidate, former diplomat Edmundo González Urrutia, obtained almost 70% of the votes.
The Venezuelan opposition and many countries have denounced electoral fraud and demanded that voting records be presented for independent verification.
The election results have been contested in the streets, with demonstrations repressed by security forces, with, according to authorities, more than 2,400 arrests, 27 deaths and 192 injuries.
The Caracas regime says a coup d'état is underway, keeping thousands of police and military personnel on the streets to control the protesters, and has asked the population to, anonymously and through the VenAPP app, report those who are promoting the protests.
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