The son of captured Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro called on people to take to the streets of Caracas to protest his father’s arrest, warning that those who betrayed his family will be found.
The only son of captured Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro called on his countrymen to take to the streets of Caracas to protest his father’s arrest, warning that those who betrayed his family will be found.
The response, though, was muted — with some armed and masked paramilitaries reportedly seen on the streets of Caracas on Monday.
Nicolas Ernesto Maduro Guerra, 35, who was also indicted by the US alongside his father and mother in 2020, remained defiant on Sunday as he claimed that he will do whatever possible to free his parents and oppose US-backed rule in Venezuela.
“You will see us in the streets. You will see a united people. You will see us wave the flags of dignity,” Maduro Guerra said in a fiery message, according to El Pais.
“They want to see us weak, but they won’t see us that way,” he added. “…I swear on my life , I swear on my dad, I swear on Cilia, that we’re going to get out of this mess.”
The son of the captured dictator also issued a stark warning to anyone who betrayed his family and leaked the location of his father, saying that it was only a matter of time until the traitors are revealed.
Maduro Guerra, who serves in Venezuela’s National Assembly, is one of several officials still in the country who face US charges over their alleged connections to international drug trafficking operations and money laundering.
