The opposition party Popular Will (VP) said that the investigation against the opposition leader Maria Corina Machado is a “new excuse” of “the dictatorship of Nicolás Maduro” to “stop her“, after the Prosecutor’s Office initiated this process by telling the former deputy to support a bill approved by the United States House of Representatives.
“We alert the international community that This is a new excuse for the dictatorship of Nicolás Maduro to persecute and detain the democratic leader of Venezuelans.”, stated VP through X.
He Public Ministry (MP, Prosecutor’s Office) maintained that initiated this investigation against Machado to be charged “for your promotion and support” al United States Senate bill that prohibits US Government institutions from hiring people or companies that have commercial ties with the Maduro regime.
Likewise, the MP affirmed that the statements that Machado has made in favor of this bill constitute the commission of the crimes of “betrayal of the country”, conspiracy with foreign countriesas well as criminal association.
VPwho described this investigation as a “farce,” He stated that the Prosecutor’s Office acts as “the judicial arm of the dictatorship”Therefore, he added, “any supposed investigation or decision has no credibility or legal basis.”
On Wednesday, Machado predicted consequences for the Maduro regime for this bill, although the rule must be approved by the Senate for it to become effective.
“The Bolívar law (officially the Law for the Prohibition of Operations and Leases with the Illegitimate Authoritarian Regime of Venezuela) sends a clear message to the regime: repression and criminal activities have consequences, and no one will be able to normalize them“Machado stated.
For its part, Maduro described the rule as “garbage” and warned that those opponents who support this bill will be committing crimes, so they must abide by judicial “consequences,” without specifying what they would be.
On Thursday, the Parliament -controlled by chavismo– approved the discussion of a organic law that seeks to politically disqualify those who request countries, “terrorist groups or associations,” to impose economic sanctions against the Caribbean nation.
The bill was approved unanimously in the plenary session, in which the president of the Chamber, Chavista Jorge Rodriguezinsisted that political disqualification must be perpetual.
The Bolívar bill was presented by the representatives of Florida Mike Waltzrepublican, and Debbie Wasserman SchultzDemocrat, who consider, in the words of the first, that USA must “maintain existing sanctions against the regime and seek to expand them to minimize Maduro’s resources to abuse the freedoms and prosperity of the Venezuelan people.”
(With information from EFE)
