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Venezuelan authorities acknowledged this Sunday the death under state custody of the 56-year-old political prisoner Alfredo Díaz, regarded as “a new victim of Maduro's criminal regime.”
The Ministry of Penitentiary Services reported that Díaz passed away on Saturday, December 6, 2025, around 6:33 AM after showing symptoms consistent with a myocardial infarction.
Díaz had been imprisoned since November 2024 after being charged with "terrorism" and "incitement to hatred" in the context of the crisis following the elections, where the opposing candidate Edmundo González was alleged to have won.
"Our strength and prayers are with their family and friends. Venezuela stands with you in your deep sorrow," stated the opposition leader María Corina Machado on Saturday, after denouncing that Díaz's life was taken in prison as part of the pattern of repression and political persecution suffered by dissenters in the South American nation.
Alfredo Díaz, former governor of Nueva Esparta state (2017 and 2021) and a historical figure of the opposition, died while detained in the regime's penitentiary center, in what human rights organizations consider a new indication of the despotic treatment suffered by Venezuelan political prisoners under the government of Nicolás Maduro.
His passing adds to an increasing list of political detainees whose cases have raised international concern due to the prison conditions and the lack of medical attention, as well as the systematic denial of judicial guarantees by the regime.
On several occasions, Machado had denounced to the international community the "inhuman" conditions in Venezuelan prisons.
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