Yes. There are no protests because we are living the worst repression in the history of Venezuela from February 12 to all this month. We registered more than 3,343 arbitrary detentions. More than 50 cases of torture were registered in organizations like Provea and Foro Penal, but we have a lot of cases of torture. We had 43 murders in the street because of military repression, so people go home. We live in fear. We don't want more death. We don't want more blood in the streets—that's why.
Instead, we continue in the streets right now with a movement that is trying to capture signatures from all the people, to go through a constitutional, electoral, and peaceful exit for the Maduro government. The constitution gives us different ways to exit the government. One of the exits is la constituyente. You need to have six million signatures and right now in the streets of Venezuela people are signing with Voluntad Popular and different leadership in the opposition.
It's very hard because you can't speak in the media. We have oppression in all our media: television, radio, and the press. We don't have freedom of speech, because the media are controlled by the government. It is really hard and it's not just now. In 2007, they closed RCTV, one of the biggest TV stations in Venezuela. That continued, they put out caricaturists, writers, journalists, good workers because they wanted to silence them.
I represent the voice of Leopoldo López. I'm Leopoldo López' wife, but I represent the voice of the families who are in prison, all the political prisoners: Daniel Ceballos, Enzo Scarano, Salvatore Lucchese, Rosmit Mantilla, Christian Holdack, and all the other political prisoners. I represent their families, I also represent the families of those who have been murdered this month. We don't want death or violence. I also represent the ones in exile. The ones who are silenced because of fear. In all my words and all my meetings, I represent all those voices that are silenced today. It's difficult but we need to continue.
Right now, people are signing. Eight out of ten Venezuelans want change in Venezuela, so we are together in the majority for change; for a better country; a progressive, peaceful country of goodwill. That's very important to know. All together. Often we were divided—Chavistas and non-Chavistas. Right now, it's like this. The problems that were our own problems, the daily problems, connect us in the lineups for food and diapers. So Venezuela changed and we are connected right now and we want to change.