faces of Nicolás Maduro a multinational pincer. On the one hand, in Caracas it is scheduled for this Monday a gigantic march of protest against low salaries and the Chavista dictatorship while in Buenos Aires they will protest their presence at the CELAC summit on Tuesday.
Although geographically distant, the two events coincide in their aims of protest and repudiate the Venezuelan presidentwhose head has a reward of 15 million dollars and several indictments to the UN and the International Criminal Court for violation of human rights and crimes against humanity.
Caracas, in fact, has filled up with bounty hunters on the lookout raise $90 million for the arrest of 11 wanted officials for the United States.
In an interview with clarion In March 2021, Venezuelan criminal lawyer Alejandro Rebolledo, based in Miami, clarified that Washington’s most wanted list is headed by Nicolás Maduro with a $15 million reward and followed by Diosdado Cabello with $10 million.
“They are accused of drug trafficking, money laundering and terrorism. And the rewards are for those who provide information or data leading to the arrest of those people,” he said.
These are the reasons why Maduro he prefers to isolate himself and don’t go to invitations. You win no shortage. Since then, Maduro travels abroad very little and only land in countries where your safety is guaranteed to escape bounty hunters and judges trying to hold him for trial.
March in Caracas: low wages and inflation
In Caracas the unions of professionals, civil servants, teachers and teachers demanded this Monday “January 23”, emblematic date against the dictatorship, a large march.
It’s to protest the low $7 a month minimum wage, the acute economic crisis, 300% inflation last year, the extreme poverty of 6.5 million Venezuelans suffering from hunger, according to United Nations data, the 270 political prisoners and the exodus of 7.5 million people who escaped poverty.
In Buenos Aires, the protest should take place in the Torre de los Ingleses, in front of the Sheraton hotel, site of the Celac summit, to which the government of Alberto Fernández has invited Maduro. In fact, there have already been protests this Sunday.
The Venezuelan community residing in the South American country and the Argentine opposition have united in repudiating their controversial presence at the event.
The Argentines wanted to go beyond the protest against the Venezuelan president for his participation in the CELAC (Community of Latin American and Caribbean States), a regional political body founded by Hugo Chávez and Fidel Castro in 2011 without any practical meaning.
Argentine justice is willing to open an investigation into Maduro for crimes against humanity for considering that these types of crimes have international jurisdiction as happened with Pinochet, who was arrested in London in 1998.
The Argentine judicial initiative is promoted by the president of the PRO, Patricia Bullrich, her counterpart from the Civic Coalition, Maximiliano Ferraro, the Buenos Aires official Waldo Wolff and other lawmakers such as the radical Karina Banfi, Ricardo López Murphy will participate in the proceedings.
The Venezuelan also joined the protest Elisa Trotta Gamusformer representative of the Venezuelan Juan Guaidó in Argentina and who now works together with his compatriots in Argentina.
Some of them participate in the Criminal complaint against Maduro, Daniel Ortega (Nicaragua) and Miguel Díaz-Canel (Cuba) the news that they were going to Buenos Aires had just spread.
Until this Monday, only Díaz Canel had landed in Buenos Aires. He did it on Sunday evening, a few minutes before Lula da Silva arrived.
“From the Forum for Democracy in the Region we present a criminal complaint against the three for having committed crimes against humanity, with 40 pages of arguments and recent cases”, assured Banfi clarion.
And he added: “It is important that the Argentine justice intervenes in this matter since any dictator must be prosecuted in the world under the universal jurisdiction of aberrant human rights crimes, such as those committed in those cities”.
The case is now being examined by the prosecutor Gerardo Pollicita and the judge Sebastián Casanello.
“I will march against dictatorships, authoritarianism and the violation of human rights. It is a burden for the national government to go to the United Nations, defend the CFK, attack our justice, while embracing Maduro, Díaz Canel and Ortega”, Wolff (PRO) had told Clarin.
“Mature it should be stopped immediately for committing crimes against humanity. Just like what happened with Pinochet in London in 1998,” he told her.
In March last year, an Argentine court issued a warrant for the arrest and arrest of Diosdado Cabello, Maduro’s second-in-command. for his ties to drug trafficking. Warned as he was, the former Venezuelan soldier preferred to stay in Caracas and not travel to Bolivia through Argentine territory.
Maduro has former Spanish president José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero to whiten his face in the face of so many accusations. On a lightning-fast trip to Caracas to free the The former Venezuelan interior minister, José Rodríguez Torres, Two days ago he spoke with the president of Caracas to include the issue of money laundering on his agenda that he will develop in Buenos Aires.
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Source: Clarin
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