Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro, his wife “First Combatant” Cilia Flores, and other senior members of his regime filled the San Francisco Church in Caracas on Thursday for a Holy Week Catholic Mass, a privilege denied to the Venezuelan people thanks to Maduro’s nationwide coronavirus quarantine.
Maduro, who has regularly persecuted Catholic laymen and clergy for demanding an end to state violence against dissidents, appeared in photographs observing a Holy Thursday Mass while wearing a cloth mask. The socialist VIPs also appeared to be standing at least six feet apart in the church’s pews, adhering to “social distancing” guidelines. Among the high-profile members of the Maduro regime attending was Vladimir Padrino López, the minister of defense, believed to be in charge of the repressive apparatus used to kill, torture, and otherwise silence dissidents.--
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