{"id":506444,"date":"2026-05-02T14:18:43","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T18:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/machado-calls-for-rallies-in-over-120-cities-in-support-of-political-prisoners\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T14:18:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T18:18:43","slug":"machado-calls-for-rallies-in-over-120-cities-in-support-of-political-prisoners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/uncategorized\/machado-calls-for-rallies-in-over-120-cities-in-support-of-political-prisoners\/","title":{"rendered":"Machado calls for rallies in over 120 cities in support of political prisoners"},"content":{"rendered":"<strong>Caracas<\/strong>.- The opposition leader and 2025 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/mariacorinamachado\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mar\u00eda Corina Machado<\/a><\/strong>, called for a <strong>demonstration<\/strong> this Sunday in more than <strong>120<\/strong> cities around the world, including <strong>Venezuela<\/strong>, in support of political prisoners and &#8220;persecuted&#8221; in the South American country.\n\n&#8220;<strong>They and their families need our voice, they need our strength and that is why we will raise our voice, this Sunday, May 3, so that the whole world hears the cry for freedom, for justice, for democracy, which we raise today from Venezuela<\/strong>&#8220;, Machado underlined in a video published on his social networks.\n\nThe opposition leader has been outside Venezuela since last December, when she left to receive the Nobel Peace Prize medal in Norway after spending a year in hiding to avoid being arrested by the authorities, who have accused her of violence and of calling for a military invasion.\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>We recommend reading: <a href=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/internacionales\/venezuela-anuncia-aumento-salarial\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/internacionales\/trump-afirma-que-maria-corina\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trump says Mar\u00eda Corina Machado told him he didn&#8217;t deserve the Nobel when he was awarded it<\/a><\/a><\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\nMachado&#8217;s organizing team, the Comando Con Venezuela, set more than 20 concentration points in several Venezuelan cities, according to several publications on their X account.\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-convocatorias-en-otros-paises\"><strong>Calls for applications in other countries<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\nIn Caracas, one of them will be the headquarters of the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service (Sebin), known as El Helicoide, where numerous political prisoners remain or have been detained.\n\nAlso, there are 12 calls in Spain in places like Madrid, Tenerife, Valencia and Barcelona.\n\nCountries such as Italy, Portugal, Belgium, Netherlands, France, as well as the United States, Canada, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Panama, Ecuador, Uruguay, Colombia, Peru and others are also included.\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>We recommend reading: <a href=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/internacionales\/maria-corina-machado-pide-seguir\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mar\u00eda Corina Machado calls for continued progress in the &#8220;rebirth&#8221; of freedom in Venezuela<\/a><\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\nAccording to the NGO Foro Penal, in Venezuela there are 454 political prisoners, including 41 foreigners or those with dual nationality, while a law of amnesty limited to certain crimes and specific periods of time remains in force in the country.\n\nThe Venezuelan government often claims that there are &#8220;political prisoners&#8221; in the country, while asserting that they are incarcerated for committing crimes, a position rejected by various non-governmental organizations and opposition parties.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caracas.- The opposition leader and 2025 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Mar\u00eda Corina Machado, called for a demonstration this Sunday in more than 120 cities around the world, including Venezuela, in support of political prisoners and &#8220;persecuted&#8221; in the South American country. &#8220;They and their families need our voice, they need our strength and that is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-506444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-27Ks","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","dum_api":{"author_name":"Yerandi Santana","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/cropped-WhatsApp-Image-2026-02-13-at-5.35.07-PM-96x96.jpeg","categories_name":["Uncategorized"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}