Chavista regime security forces tried to search Venezuelan journalist: desperate appeals for help

The persecution of the Nicolás Maduro regime in Venezuela continues. This Tuesday evening A unit of the Special Action Forces (FAES) of the dictatorship of Nicolás Maduro attempted to raid journalist Mildred Manrique’s home in Altamira.

The communicator denounced the incident on her social networks. “I am inside my home with my mom and special condition sister. The police, after knocking on the door of my house, I did not open them, they went down but there is a unit with 10 officers two buildings from mine. I don’t know what’s going on and why they came with long guns “, he said on his Twitter account.

Manrique also shared a video from your apartment, where men in uniform are visible at the door of the building where he resides.

Likewise, the journalist released two audios. The first took place during Operation FAES, in which he desperately asked for help from his acquaintances. “Help, please, FAES is at my house, come here, please,” she is heard to say, her voice agitated.

Then he played another audio when the men in uniform were already retired: “They ran away and came back downstairs because I started screaming and told them that I was not going to open the door for them, that was where the search warrant was (…) They left because that I imagine they saw me recording everything on the phone, I wasn’t recording, I was live on Periscope ”.

The National Assembly (AN) headed by Juan Guaido denounced the “harassment and intimidation of the Venezuelan journalist”: “Police forces without a search warrant are trying to enter his house, where his younger sister resides.”

For its part, the NGO Provea demanded that the Maduro dictatorship “respect its integrity and its work”: “The right to inform is enshrined in the Constitution. “We hold the Faes accountable for the integrity of Mildred and her family,” the National Union of Press Workers of Venezuela (SNTP) said.

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