Elvis Amoroso, the Venezuelan official who declared strongman Nicolás Maduro the winner of the disputed presidential election in July, has n’t been seen in public in ten weeks, which has sparked rumors on social media, with some claiming he was planning to defect. He was detained by regime security forces and released from custody after being arrested in Argentina and being extradited to the United States.
The close ally of Maduro, who was appointed by the strongman to lead the National Electoral Council to ensure that his crucial election was won, has n’t been seen since Aug. 5, when he appeared in court to show undisclosed documents that purportedly claimed to show that Maduro had won almost 52 % of the vote.
The , criticism claims , that the research conducted by the regime-controlled Supreme Court was a comedy aimed at hiding that criticism candidate Edmundo González was the actual winner of the July 28th poll with more than 68 % of the vote, and that the numbers announced by Amoroso on election day were , fabricated and dictated to him , by high-ranking government officials.
The majority of the world’s leaders, including those from the United States, have neither claimed González won the election or expressed doubts about Amoroso’s prediction of the outcome.
According to the most recent rumours, Amoroso was detained after being caught by security forces leaving the nation at the Caracas martial complex known as Fuerte Tiuna. Comparable to Tareck El Aissami’s position, who was brutally imprisoned for months and kept in house arrest before being charged with corruption in April, is how things stand today.
The notion of minute imprisonment may be ruled out, said Antonio De La Cruz, chairman of the Washington-based think-tank Inter American Trends. ” This is a guy that the regime ca n’t allow to leave”, De La Cruz said. ” What is keeping Maduro in authority is Amoroso’s say that he won, but if he problems and takes that aside, Maduro’s say to legality falls”.
Amoroso is very significant to let him leave Venezuela because the government has yet to provide the standard election results, despite repeated requests from the global community to do so. The help of his reelection defeat relies greatly on , Amoroso’s word , and the statement of the regime-controlled Supreme judge.
If Amoroso were to appear in public and confess that he lied, it would have catastrophic consequences for Maduro, said Jose Vicente Carrasquero, professor of political science at Simon Bolivar University in Venezuela, who now resides in Hollywood, Florida.
If he suddenly appeared in Miami and declared to a television station or the Miami Herald,” I was given a piece of paper to read and that was what I said on the night of the election,” Carrasquero said.” It would be simply explosive for these people ( in the regime ) if he was…
The stories are circulating in response to an extreme wave of persecution that has resulted in the arrest of close to 2, 000 activists who claimed Maduro cheated during the vote. Criticism and human rights activists claim that some of the detained are being tortured, while the rest are being transported to the government’s “repeated focus tents” for “reeducation.
The electoral council chairman stopped speaking at the numerous televised occasions the government holds and even stopped going to his business as a result of the Supreme Court’s ruling on August 5th. His presence from the general public for more than two decades did not go unnoticed in Venezuela, which later led to discussion and debate on social media.
According to the first wave of rumors, he was being detained in Argentina, a nation that recently issued an arrest attempt against Maduro for human rights violations, and that he was being extradited to the United States. At the national Palace of Miraflores, Amoroso was quickly accused of “holding against his could” in a furious manner.
Amoroso’s movements are still a mystery despite the fact that Cuban fact-checking organizations quickly discredited the initial claims before concluding there is no conclusive proof to support them.
Ivan Simonovis, a Colombian police officer who worked as Juan Guaido’s intelligence when he was recognized by the United States as Venezuela’s genuine president, claimed that despite allowing him to easily travel inside the South American nation, he would be subject to constant surveillance.
He claimed that that is the destiny of those who are surrounded by what are essentially prison soldiers and who are the ones who are the most harmed by the government.
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