The Venezuelan prosecutor’s office announced this Friday that it had opened an investigation against María Corina Machado, leader of the opposition against the Chavista dictatorship of Nicolas Maduro. The investigation was initiated due to Machado’s alleged support for a bill approved by the U.S. House of Representatives prohibiting U.S. government institutions from hiring people and companies with business ties to the Maduro government.
Maduro’s public prosecutor assured that the investigation against Machado aims to indict him for “his promotion and support of the said legal horror which sponsors terrible criminal acts against the Venezuelan people”, according to a statement from the Venezuelan prosecutor’s office published on Instagram . The institution, under Maduro’s orders, assures that Machado spoke out in favor of the bill announced by the United States, which constitutes the commission of the crimes of “betrayal to the homeland”, conspiracy with foreign countries and association to commit a crime. . Machado said Wednesday that this law would have consequences for the dictatorship of Nicolas Maduro.
“The Bolivar Law (officially the law prohibiting operations and rentals with Venezuela’s illegitimate authoritarian regime) sends a clear message to the regime: repression and criminal activity have consequences and no one will be able to normalize them,” Machado said. in a post on his social networks. The rule still needs approval from the U.S. Senate for it to take effect.
Dictator Nicolás Maduro called the standard awaiting approval in the Senate “waste.” The Chavista leader also warned opponents who intend to support this law that they would be committing a crime and that there would be legal “consequences”, he has not yet specified what they will be.
The National Assembly of Venezuela, with a Chavista majority, approved on Thursday an organic law which aims to politically disqualify those who ask countries, “terrorist groups or associations”, to impose economic sanctions on Venezuela. The bill was unanimously approved in the plenary session of the Assembly. Chavista Jorge Rodríguez, president of the Venezuelan Parliament, called for the political disqualification to be permanent.
The Bolivar bill was introduced by Florida Representatives Mike Waltz, Republican, and Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Democrat, who believe, in the former’s words, that the United States should “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.
Opposition María Corina Machado is once again at the center of Maduro’s Chavista dictatorship after she was unable to be a candidate in the July 28 presidential election due to her disqualification. Edmundo González was the opposition candidate and was ultimately elected president of Venezuela despite the frauds committed by the regime. However, persecution by Maduro’s forces forced him to flee to Spain to avoid arrest.
