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The deputy Nicolás Maduro Guerrason of Nicolás Maduro, denounced this Monday that his family is “persecuted” after the capture of the chapista leader and his wife, Cilia Floreslast Saturday in Caracas by the United States, and said he was confident that both will be released and that they will be back in Venezuela.
“Today we are with an absent man and an absent woman,” said Maduro Guerra during the opening of the 2026-2031 legislature of the Venezuelan Parliament.
Maduro’s son has pointed out in the Venezuelan National Assembly that “if we normalize the kidnapping of a head of state, no country is safe.”
“If they are Monroe, we are Simón Bolívar”Nicolás has declared in reference to the United States. Regarding his father, he assured that “he will remain firm, serene and up to the historic challenge he faces.”
“Venezuela does not ask for privileges or concessions, it asks for respect. “We want international relations with everyone, without threats and without interference.”he stressed and thanked “all the struggle of the people mobilized inside and outside the country, they will return.”
Maduro Guerra has also assured that his father and Flores, whom he called his “second mother,” They were “kidnapped” for “being revolutionaries” and because “they did not and will not sell themselves”.
“I take advantage of this forum to denounce that my name has been put, like that of my father and the first combatant, in the same accusation, (…) my person and my family are being persecuted because we are not buyable,” he said, in statements collected by Efe.
Chapista deputy Jorge Rodríguez has been re-elected this Monday as head of the Venezuelan Parliament in a session that has included among its protagonists new faces from the opposition and that has been marked by the capture of Maduro and his wife and deputy, Cilia Flores.
The deputy has presided over the Chamber since 2021, during the last two legislative periods, and will now lead the Assembly for at least one more year, since every January 5, Parliament must vote to elect a new president.
Rodríguez has taken the oath next to a painting with the photo of Maduro and Flores.
The rest of the elected members of the Board of Directors have joined in this act: “I swear that in this difficult moment for the Homeland that together we will win” declared Rodríguez.