“No one gets away with this and there will be no forgiveness”: Nicolas Maduro guarantees he will catch all criminals in Venezuela

More than 1,200 people have been arrested and a thousand more are wanted for the destruction of 300 police stations following protests in Venezuela following the announcement of Nicolas Maduro’s re-election last Sunday.

The Venezuelan president guarantees that “he will catch all the criminals trained in the United States, Colombia, Peru and Chile” and that those detained will be sent to two maximum security prisons. “No one gets away with it on video, we are being beaten one after another and this time there will be no forgiveness,” he said. The United States has already said it will not recognize the results of the National Electoral Council. “The election results overwhelmingly demonstrate the will of the Venezuelan people: the candidate from the democratic opposition received the most votes.

“Venezuelans voted and their votes must be counted,” Antony Blinken wrote on social media X. The Secretary of State guarantees that there is “irrefutable evidence” that Edmundo González received more votes. Maduro says that “the United States must keep its nose out of Venezuela because it is the sovereign people who govern Venezuela, who chooses, who speaks, who decides.”