{"id":58307,"date":"2025-01-08T07:00:57","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T06:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=58307"},"modified":"2026-01-08T02:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T01:27:08","slug":"maduros-terrorist-regime-kidnaps-125-foreigners-its-time-to-respond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/01\/08\/maduros-terrorist-regime-kidnaps-125-foreigners-its-time-to-respond\/","title":{"rendered":"Maduro's terrorist regime kidnaps 125 foreigners: it's time to respond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The dictatorship of Nicol\u00e1s Maduro, which illegitimately retains power in Venezuela, has turned to kidnapping foreign citizens.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/09\/15\/maduro-kidnaps-spaniards-taking-advantage-of-sanchezs-weakness-and-complicity\/\">Maduro kidnaps Spaniards taking advantage of S\u00e1nchez's weakness and complicity<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/12\/12\/psoe-votes-against-demanding-dictator-maduro-to-end-repression-in-venezuela\/\">PSOE votes against demanding dictator Maduro to end repression in Venezuela<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p><big>The kidnapping and harassment of the Maduro regime against relatives of democratic leaders<\/big><\/p>\n<p>Kidnapping is not an uncommon practice for this regime. <strong>Just yesterday, Edmundo Gonz\u00e1lez,<\/strong> winner of the last elections in Venezuela and legitimate president-elect of the country, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/EdmundoGU\/status\/1876684315494662368\/history\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">denounced the kidnapping of his son-in-law by \"hooded men\"<\/a> while he was going to his grandchildren's school. <strong>It is easy to see the imprint of the Maduro dictatorship in that kidnapping,<\/strong> since hours later, the Venezuelan democratic leader <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MariaCorinaYA\/status\/1876724382502162628\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mar\u00eda Corina Machado denounced that agents of the regime are harassing the house of her mother<\/a>: <em>\"My mother is 84 years old, she is sick, with chronic health conditions. <strong>Maduro and company, you have no limits to your evil. Cowards,<\/strong>\"<\/em> said Machado.<\/p>\n<p><big>Maduro kidnaps 125 citizens from other countries, including Spain<\/big><\/p>\n<p>Just yesterday, <strong>the interior minister of the Maduro regime, the mobster and drug trafficker Diosdado Cabello<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.infobae.com\/venezuela\/2025\/01\/06\/el-regimen-de-venezuela-confirmo-que-tiene-mas-de-120-extranjeros-detenidos-por-supuestos-actos-desestabilizadores\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced that it has 125 foreigners detained<\/a> for having ties to the democratic movement in Venezuela. Cabello accuses them of \"terrorist activities\", accusations that are clearly false and that hide what the regime is doing: <strong>taking hostages to blackmail Western countries<\/strong>. Among those arrested are citizens of Germany, Albania, Argentina, Colombia, <strong>Spain<\/strong>, the United States, Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, Peru, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, Uruguay and Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p><big>The complicity of Spanish socialists and communists with that regime<\/big><\/p>\n<p>Let us remember that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/09\/15\/maduro-kidnaps-spaniards-taking-advantage-of-sanchezs-weakness-and-complicity\/\">in September it was learned that the Maduro regime detained two Spaniards who were on vacation in Venezuela<\/a>. The detainees have not yet been released. Instead of showing firmness with this tyrant, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/09\/15\/maduro-kidnaps-spaniards-taking-advantage-of-sanchezs-weakness-and-complicity\/\">in December, Pedro S\u00e1nchez's party and its far-left partners voted against demanding that dictator Maduro end repression in Venezuela<\/a>, yet another example of <strong>the complicity of Spanish socialists and communists with this criminal regime<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><big>A kidnapping that must be responded to with the utmost firmness<\/big><\/p>\n<p>It is time to act. <strong>Democratic countries cannot allow a terrorist regime<\/strong> (let's start calling things by their name, because Maduro and his gang are committing kidnappings like a terrorist gang) <strong>to blackmail the West by taking innocent people hostage<\/strong>, both Venezuelans and foreigners. So far, gestures of weakness and initiatives of appeasement have only served to make this criminal gang feel emboldened. <strong>The time has come for firmness.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Maduro regime acts like a criminal organization and, consequently, <strong>all democratic countries should break off diplomatic relations with it<\/strong>, expelling the personnel of Venezuelan embassies and consulates who are sympathetic to this terrorist regime, <strong>imposing the harshest sanctions<\/strong> against the Maduro dictatorship, confiscating its assets abroad and <strong>proceeding to arrest all those who are part of its criminal structure<\/strong>, because being part of a terrorist organization that kidnaps innocent people is a very serious crime in any civilized country.<\/p>\n<p><big>The West must begin to consider military action against that regime.<\/big><\/p>\n<p>Moreover, <strong>Western countries should start considering military action against that terrorist regime<\/strong>, in the same way they have taken against other terrorist groups such as ISIS in Iraq and Syria or the Houthis in Yemen. <strong>The only language with which terrorists deserve to be treated is force<\/strong>, and even more so when criminals take hostages as Maduro and his henchmen have done. <\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Photo: AVN.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The dictatorship of Nicol\u00e1s Maduro, which illegitimately retains power in Venezuela, has turned to kidnapping foreign citizens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,11471],"tags":[6549,22374,15566,6548,159],"class_list":["post-58307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-hispanicity","tag-diosdado-cabello","tag-edmundo-gonzalez","tag-maria-corina-machado","tag-nicolas-maduro","tag-venezuela"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-11 22:21:54","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}