RAMO
VERDE PRISON, Venezuela —On Dec. 6, my country will hold legislative elections.
Unfortunately, Venezuela is the first Latin American country to imprison
leaders of the opposition during an election since Uruguay’s dictatorship
imprisoned Wilson Ferreira Aldunate in 1984. Here in Nicolás Maduro’s
Venezuela, four of us are in prison, along with 71 other political prisoners. When
I turned myself in to a government that actually accused me of using
“subliminal messages” to incite violence, I knew that this would be my fate.
Venezuela’s current regime has always gone to great lengths to neutralize my
engagement in politics, along with the engagement of so many others. Even as I
sit in a small jail cell in Ramo Verde Military Prison, I do not regret
surrendering to an unjust government in the name of democracy. More…
Friday, December 4, 2015
Leopoldo López: We Must Reclaim Democracy in Venezuela
RAMO
VERDE PRISON, Venezuela —On Dec. 6, my country will hold legislative elections.
Unfortunately, Venezuela is the first Latin American country to imprison
leaders of the opposition during an election since Uruguay’s dictatorship
imprisoned Wilson Ferreira Aldunate in 1984. Here in Nicolás Maduro’s
Venezuela, four of us are in prison, along with 71 other political prisoners. When
I turned myself in to a government that actually accused me of using
“subliminal messages” to incite violence, I knew that this would be my fate.
Venezuela’s current regime has always gone to great lengths to neutralize my
engagement in politics, along with the engagement of so many others. Even as I
sit in a small jail cell in Ramo Verde Military Prison, I do not regret
surrendering to an unjust government in the name of democracy. More…
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