Leopoldo López: “Do not let the Venezuelan dictatorship be an example.”

Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo López, Lilian Tintori’s husband, sent a message to Ecuadorians from the Ramo Verde military prison, where he has remained as a political prisoner of the regime of Nicolas Maduro for three years.

“With profound respect for the Ecuadorian people and their internal process I say: do not allow the Venezuelan dictatorship and its practices to be an example,” he wrote on his Twitter account.

Lopez, considered a radical opponent, referred to “the Venezuelan dictatorship and its abusive methods” as a danger to all Latin American peoples. And he affirmed that “the struggle for democracy and human rights transcends borders, all Latin American people want the same thing: freedom. We are millions of people in that fight for freedom, not only in Ecuador and Venezuela, but throughout the world, and we will not rest until we achieve it.”