The Venezuelan prosecutor’s office announced this Friday the opening of an investigation against the opposition leader. Maria Corina Machado for – he assured – having supported the bill approved in the United States House of Representatives, which prohibits American government institutions from hiring people or companies with commercial ties with the Chavista executive.
Through a statement published on Instagram, the Public Prosecutor’s Office (deputy of the prosecution) affirmed that it had decided to open this investigation against Machado for “being indicted for its promotion and support of said legal monstrosity which sponsors terrible criminal acts against the people Venezuelan”.
The institution maintains that the statements made by Machado in favor of this bill constitute the commission of crimes of “treason”conspiracy with foreign countries, as well as criminal conspiracy.
On Wednesday, Machado predicted the consequences of this bill for Nicolas Maduro’s government.
“The Bolívar Law (officially the law prohibiting dealings and leasing with Venezuela’s illegitimate authoritarian regime) sends a clear message to the regime: repression and criminal activities have consequences and no one will be able to standardize them,” Machado said through X, even though the standard must be approved by the Senate for it to come into force.
Meanwhile, the president Nicolás Maduro called the standard “waste”while warning that opponents who support this project will commit crimes and will therefore have to submit to legal “consequences”, without specifying what these would be.
On Thursday, Parliament – controlled by Chavismo – approved the discussion of an organic law aimed at politically disqualifying those who ask countries, “terrorist groups or associations”, to impose economic sanctions against the Caribbean nation.
The bill was unanimously approved in plenary session, during which the President of the House, the Chavista Jorge Rodríguez, insisted that the political forfeiture must be perpetual.
The project of Bolivarian law was presented by Florida Representatives Mike Waltz, Republican, and Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Democrat, who believe, in the words of the former, that the United States should “maintain existing sanctions against the regime and seek to extend them to minimize Maduro’s resources to abuse the freedoms and prosperity of the Venezuelan people.
