Guaidó calls a march next Friday "to demand an end to torture" in Venezuela

The legitimate president of Venezuela, Juan Guaidó, has called a massive demonstration for next Friday to “demand an end to torture” after the death of Lieutenant Commander Rafael Acosta when he was in the custody of Maduro’s military intelligence. “This July 5, 208 years after our independence, to mobilize in all the states of Venezuela before the Armed Forces, the UN and the international community to demand an end to torture, assassinations, human rights violations and Cuban intervention », He said on his official Twitter account. This July 5, 208 years after our independence, to mobilize in all the states of Venezuela before the Armed Forces, the UN and the international community to demand an end to torture, assassinations, human rights violations and Cuban intervention. In Caracas from UNDP to DGCIM. – Juan Guaidó (@jguaido) July 1, 2019 The head of the National Assembly has specified that the march through Caracas, which is usually the most massive, will advance from the headquarters of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) to the headquarters of the General Directorate of Military Counterintelligence (DGCIM) .The Lieutenant Commander was arrested on June 21, along with four other military personnel and two former agents of the security forces, by the DGCIM for his alleged involvement in the failed uprising against the Nicolás Maduro’s government on April 30. A week later, Acosta appeared before a military court in a wheelchair, unable to speak and with clear signs of having been tortured. The judge sent him to a military hospital where he finally died at dawn last Saturday.Guaidó and his international allies maintain that he died as a result of the torture he received and have demanded an international investigation from Maduro. Acosta’s wife, Waleswka Pérez, has asked that the UN be responsible for the investigations. Maduro, for his part, has ordered an internal investigation into Acosta’s death, although at the same time he has stressed that he was accused of ” serious acts of terrorism, sedition and assassination in a degree of frustration ”. In the last hours, two DGCIM agents have been arrested as alleged perpetrators. The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, has declared herself “shocked” by the “alleged torture” of Acosta, while requested the Venezuelan authorities to carry out a “transparent” investigation.