Carlos Albert, a Valencian who flew to Venezuela over the weekend, said he was expelled by Nicolás Maduro’s regime after being stopped at Caracas airport “for wearing the Venezuelan national team jersey with the name of María Corina Machado, the Venezuelan opposition leader,” claims Edmundo González’s victory in the July 28 election.
“I’m at the Madrid airport, I’ve been in Caracas for three hours and they’ve kicked me out. All because he was wearing María Corina Machado’s shirt, (with the name) on the back, and obviously that didn’t go down well,” he said in a video recorded by himself and to which OKDIARIO had access, just after landing.
“Venezuela is currently a dictatorship and I knew that (the T-shirt) probably wouldn’t be funny, but at the end of the day, in Venezuela, neither this peaceful protest nor putting whatever you want on your T-shirt is allowed. Unfortunately, this is the situation that Venezuelans live with on a daily basis,” Albert says in the video about his frustrated trip, during which he had planned to meet friends and do some sightseeing in the Latin American country.
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