🇻🇪⚠️⛓ — Persecution in Venezuela: Edmundo González Urrutia and María Corina Machado denounced to the global press the detention of two more collaborators

❗️ "This is the regime criminalizing the electoral path," said the former deputy to journalists, who estimated the total number of detained opposition members this year to be 37, 20 of whom are directly linked to González Urrutia's campaign team, who will face Nicolás Maduro in the July 28 elections.

💬 Machado explained that Cisneros, a youth leader of her party Vente Venezuela (VV), and González, from the party's communications team, "went out to buy something for lunch," near the political headquarters when they were "intercepted and taken to Helicoide," where the cells of the Bolivarian Intelligence Service (Sebin) are located.

"These young people are being linked to a case in which they are accused of inciting hatred and criminal association simply for supporting our candidate. [...] Some of the detainees have been denied the right to have private lawyers, in which case public defenders ask anti-Chavistas to blame Machado for violent plans as a condition for their release."

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🇷🇺🤝🇰🇵 — On June 18, 2024 AD, the Russian state media reported that the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, made a state trip to North Korea (DPRK), where he met with the Asian country's top brass

➡️ Arriving in Pyongyang, capital of North Korea (DPRK), Putin was received by the Supreme Leader of the Juche Regime himself, Kim Jong-un, ennoscriptd to all possible honors, including a reception with red carpets, surrounded by the Palace Guard North Korean.

➡️ This is the first State visit by Putin to North Korea in 24 years, as the last one was in 2000.

➡️ Alongside it, Russian State media also reported that Mr. Putin made an article for North Korean State Media Nodong Sinmun where he says that:

🔴 Opponents are trying to exhaust the Russian economy with new sanctions and provoke an increase in socio-political tension; all US attempts to contain and isolate Russia have failed

🔴 Russia’s opponents are pushing Kyiv to strike at peaceful targets and threaten to send their military contingents to Ukraine

🔴 Russia is ready for close cooperation with the DPRK to make international relations more democratic and stable

🔴 Moscow intends to build an architecture of equal and indivisible security in Eurasia

🔴The United States refuses to implement previously reached agreements in relation to the DPRK and puts forward new obviously unacceptable demands

🔴 The DPRK, despite many years of economic pressure, provocations, blackmail and military threats from the United States, effectively defends its interests

🔴 Russia and the DPRK will develop humanitarian cooperation, increase mutual tours, and cultural exchanges

🔴 Russia and the DPRK will develop payment mechanisms uncontrolled by the West and jointly resist illegitimate restrictions

➡️ North Korea’s state news agency KCNA, described the two leaders’ meeting as a historic event that showed the “invincibility and durability” of the friendship and unity between North Korea and Russia, as well claiming that the the two countries’ relations had “emerged as a strong strategic fortress for preserving international justice, peace and security and an engine for accelerating the building of a new multi-polar world”