After expanding their persecution to political, citizens and foreign opponents in Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro’s dictatorship found a new target of interest: economists.
The Chavista regime has arrested more than 20 people in the last two months for producing or disclosing independent data from the national economy, while the leftist government tries to hide the severe and growing crisis with unusual data.
Among the detained economists is the former Minister of Finance of Venezuela and economy professor Rodrigo Cabezas, 69, according to his daughter confirmed in an interview on the last day 3.
Rodna Cabezas stated that her father was the victim of an ambush from intelligence services, who passed employees of the state energy company to access the former minister on the grounds of “electricity problems.”
The interviewee reported that her father called her, saying she was being taken by the Chavista regime. Since then, the family has not received news from the economist.
According to the Provéa Human Rights Group, at least five economists were arrested between May 29 and June 5. Some were released, but two, including Rodrigo Cabezas, remain detained and missing.
The interior minister and number two of Chavismo, Diosdado Cabello, close to Maduro, said in recent days that at least 20 people linked to the Economic Informative Portal Dollar Monitor They were arrested for disclosing information about the parallel dollar.
In a threatening tone, Cabello stated in the announcement that Venezuelan economists who make “negative” comments about the Bolivar (local currency) “are playing with fire” and will be persecuted for “feeding national financial instability.
The regime has closed several financial sites, such as the Dollar Monitor and the cryptocurrency platform The goldthe latter used by Venezuelans to exchange bolivars for dollars.
