The UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances issued an alert in a  on Tuesday about the alarming increase in Cuban citizens ‘ forced kidnappings committed by the communist regime since December 2023.
The state has largely been persons exercising their rights to freedom of expression, organization, and participation in “in matters of public interest,” according to the U.N. Working Group.
The majority of the disappeared, the report stated, are “members of the major opposition social group, as well as members of the Army”.
According to the professionals from the U.N. Working Group, “enforced disappearances may have a cold effect and prevent the person’s right to vote freely as the state prepares for the presidential poll in July 2024.”
” These persistent incommunicado punishments number to enforced abductions. They appear to be following a routine in which State officials deprive people of their liberty, place them in recognized confinement facilities, and deny them fundamental rights and protections, such as access to legal services, they continued, according to the experts.
The government has launched a furious rebel assault known as” Bolivarian Fury” in recent months. Communist despot Nicolás Maduro has argued that the crackdown is essential to “dismantle” alleged foreign conspiracies against him and different people of his authoritarian regime.
The assault has so far targeted more than a few members of Venezuela’s only conventional center- proper party, Vente Venezuela, and people near to opposition leader María Corina Machado, as well as other civilians and members of the military.
One of the best-known instances of the Maduro regime’s forced disappearances is that of Venezuelan activist and lawyer Roco San Miguel, who was detained in February and has n’t been seen in public since. San Miguel was accused of participating in a controversial assassination plot against Maduro by the program.
San Miguel’s imprisonment raised questions for the United Nations Human Rights Office, to which the Maduro program reacted by appointing the company’s stationed workers in Caracas.
After meeting with International Criminal Court ( ICC ) prosecutor Karim Khan, who is overseeing a lengthy ICC investigation into allegations of crimes against humanity committed by Maduro during the 2017 wave of protests, which resulted in about 125 deaths, Maduro “invited” the banished human rights office to go back to Venezuela in April.
Cuban advocate Carlos Julio Rojas, who was detained in the middle of April and who is also accused of joining a plot to assassinate Maduro, is another event. Rojas was one of the administrators of the annual “burning of Judas” Catholic ceremony in Caracas this year during Easter, which saw the public burning of an image reminiscent of the communist despot.
Rojas is reportedly being held in one of the SEBIN Bolivarian Intelligence Service’s detention centers, which is known for its use of rape, sexual assault, and another brutal treatment of dissidents. Roxas officially has no contact with anyone outside of his home country, has no contact with anyone outside of his country, and is currently unwell.
Oscar Castaeda, a Colombian national and supporter of Machado and the Vente Venezuela group, was reportedly abducted from his home on Sunday as a result of his involvement in one of Machado’s rallies on Friday, April 26.
Castañeda, during Machado’s Friday protest in the area of Turén, stated that he had returned “defeated” from Colombia with his family and publicly expressed his aid for Machado while encouraging people to help her, as well. Over the weekend, the videos went viral on social media.
Una vez más, Maduro y su régimen quieren callar a us país como exige dignidad y libertad.
Él algorithm Óscar Castañeda. El Sebin behold sacó durante el acto de @mariacorinaya en# Portuguesa para este testimonio en golpes de su casa.
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— Vente Venezuela ( @VenteVenezuela ) April 27, 2024
Pretty Rodríguez, Castañeda’s aunt, told local press that Castañeda was taken out of his village with his mouth covered by a dark hood and has been missing since then.
Rodríguez stated that the local authorities “assured” Castañeda’s home that the defendant is “in great health” and that his career is “guaranteed”, but they have not been told where he is beyond being told that he was transferred to Caracas, nor they have been capable to see him.
” Depriving an entity of their rights, followed by the refusal to acknowledge their confinement, or concealing their death or movements, sites them outside the safety of the law”, the U. N. Working Group authorities said. ” This constitutes an enforced removal, regardless of the frequency of such deprivation of liberty or hiding”.
” It is crucial that precise information on people who are denied rights be provided without delay to those with genuine interests, such as their relatives and legitimate representatives of their option,” the experts continued.
The report by the U.N. experts emphasized that the violence of enforced disappearance violates a number of individual rights, including the right to be free from torture, the right to be a man before the law, and the right to be recognized as a man before the law.
According to the specialists,” the basic rights of the family of the disappeared people are also being violated.”
According to them, “family members of those who were forcibly disappeared are frequently left with the stress of searching for their loved ones in detention centres where they are routinely denied knowledge about their fate or movements and may face reprisals,” they continued.
The Maduro government was urged to do as the report suggested, and concluded by:
To prevent, destroy, and punishment all acts of enforced disappearance, as well as to provide information on the death and movements of those now held incommunicado by the State, as well as the right to access to legal counsel, as well as the right to be presented before a court of law with jurisdiction to determine the legality of their detention.
After receiving a now-expired oil and gas sanctions relief package from U.S. President Joe Biden in October 2023, the Maduro regime began the ongoing Bolivarian Fury crackdown weeks later.  ,
The Maduro regime had agreed to a number of vague promises in Barbados to hold a “free and fair” presidential election sometime in 2024, so the Biden Administration gave the Maduro regime a “reward” after the six-month sanctions relief package was agreed to in a meeting with representatives of the Venezuelan opposition.
Despite the generous sanctions relief package, Maduro and his government remained unwilling to abide by the electoral agreement’s terms, opting instead for a custom-made one that calls for a new fake presidential election on July 28.  ,
At the expiration date of the relief package’s April 18 expiration date, the Biden Administration reinstated the oil and gas sanctions against the Maduro regime.
Christian K. Caruzo, a Venezuelan author, writes about life under socialism. You can follow him on Twitter , here.
