Guantánamo.- Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has sent his first public message from prison in the United States after being kidnapped along with his wife, Cilia Flores. Through his son, Nicolás Maduro Guerra, he assured that he is “well,” that he is “strong,” and that he asked his supporters not to be saddened by the legal proceedings against him.
The information was released in a video in which Maduro Guerra conveyed the message that he received from his father’s lawyers. In the recording, he stated that his father remains in good spirits despite being kidnapped and detained in a federal facility in Brooklyn, New York.
The Venezuelan president’s son recounted that lawyers reassured the family and that Maduro expressly asked his followers not to be saddened. “The lawyers have told us he is strong. He said not to be sad, that ‘we are fine, we are fighters,’” Maduro Guerra stated, quoting his father.
In that same message, he described him as a leader they could not break. “A man they could not defeat by any means and had to use disproportionate force, but they did not defeat him. He is strong, and we must be strong.”
Furthermore, he spoke about the current situation in the country and stated: “We are going to preserve life, we are going to preserve power, we are going to preserve the revolution. It is up to us to move forward on our path to keep democracy alive, to maintain the path of (Hugo) Chávez.”
