I remember the last sunrise he enjoyed outside the embassy.
She was early to attend a meeting of Leader of the Leader of the Opposition Maria Korea Machado to discuss the growing persecution of Venezuela government – and decides who will represent the coalition in the upcoming presidential election.
Despite the victory of her landslide in the opposition’s primary, the government had banned Makado to run.
Then, the news came from the one who changed everything. Venezuela’s attorney Tarni General Tarak William Sab had appeared on television to announce the arrest warrant for opposition members – and Meda’s name was in the list.
At the time of the election, Medu, a campaign manager, said, “We had to escape, hide and shelter. This was a cruel situation.” She spoke to Al Jazir through a written correspondence sent by electronically.
She continued, “I will never forget to give this call to his new Husband,” she added.
Two of her colleagues that day were already detained. In a viral video, the opposition’s political secretary Digora Hernandez appeared to be screaming for help as the agents wrapped her in a silver vehicle.
Meda and others had to behave fast. In the past, opposition members had sought shelter in the boundaries of the embassy, taking advantage of the international agreement – at the Casual Convention of 1954 44 – which allows the Individuals to provide shelter for political harassment in Latin America.
In addition, the Vienna session on diplomatic relationships prevents the host authorities from entering the yard without pre -permission.
In the case of Meda, it will be Argentina Embassy that will provide significant shelter. Venezuela’s president Nicholas Maduro had reported human rights abuse and offered Meda and five other shelters at the embassy residence.
Initially, Maida and her colleagues not only got physical security in the walls of the embassy, but also got a place to continue their work on the presidential campaign before the 224 elections.
But a year later, the situation of this group is more uncertain – and Maduro is still in power.
Despite the July July’s vote, Maduro published in the light of the voting, opposition candidate Admondo Gonzalez has brought him into trouble.
In December, the UN Human Rights Committee launched an inquiry to analyze the evidence that the vote was strictly described. The Maduro government has ordered to discourage any election by the expedition of any election.
After Argentina refused to recognize the victory of Maduro’s battle, his diplomats were expelled. Argentina transferred the embassy to Brazil, but the diplomat people in that country could not enter the space blocked by local authorities.
Today, five opposition members live alone in the empty embassy.
Venezuela’s intelligence and armed forces are on the street outside. Security officials have taken possession of nearby houses and the embassy people say that the state electric company came to take fuse from the power box and left the generator for electricity only.
Human rights groups have condemned Venezuela for violating international rules of shelter, including the right of a safe path.
Carolina Jimenez Sandoval, president of the Washington office of the United States, was described as “siege”.
“One purpose is to break them mentally – they feel that they are good to leave the embassy and then take the Venezuela security forces to them,” Jimenez explained.
“The building or diplomat mission is constantly surrounded by the Venezuela government to break the international law to achieve its own objectives by cutting electricity and water.”