The Foreign Ministry says that “crimes against humanity” were committed in Venezuela, which warrants an arrest warrant for President Nicolás Maduro.
The Government announced this Friday that it will urge the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court the arrest of the president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, and other “leaders of the regime.” The president Javier Milei alleges that fraud occurred in the presidential elections in the South American country on July 28, which resulted in Maduro being declared the winner.
“Given the worsening of the situation in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela since July 28 and the commission of new facts that can be considered crimes crimes against humanitythe Argentine Republic urges “the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to request the Pre-Trial Chamber to issue arrest warrants against Nicolás Maduro and other leaders of the regime,” the Argentine Foreign Ministry reported.
The Chancellor Diana Maduro He spread the announcement with a post on X: “We formally ask the International Criminal Court to arrest the dictator Maduro.”
He last July 28th were carried out presidential elections in Venezuela where official data gave winner to the current president Nicolas Maduro with 51.4% against 44% of Edmundo González Urrutia of Con Venezuela. The opposition denounced fraud and declared herself the winner with more than 60% of the votes.
Since then, a dispute has continued with mobilizations inside and outside Venezuela for and against Maduro. The Bolivarian government denounces acts of terrorism supported by the United States. Opposition leaders González Urrutia and Corina Machado maintain that they are being persecuted and that political persecution is taking place.
The Government condemned the arrest warrant against Edmundo González Urrutia in Venezuela
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He Government Javier Milei condemned this Monday the arrest warrant against the former presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia issued by the Public Prosecutor’s Office of Venezuela for alleged conspiracy and usurpation of functions. He said that this is “infamous actions of the dictatorship.”
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed its “rejection of the request for arrest issued by the Public Prosecutor’s Office of the Maduro dictatorship” against the winner of the presidential elections on July 28, Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia”, and alerted the international community “about a wave of radicalization of the regime which seeks to criminalize Venezuelan democratic forces.”
They also denounced that Venezuela is experiencing “a context of massive human rights violations in the face of popular protests unleashed after a gross electoral fraud” and accused the Maduro government of trying to “curtail the fight for democracy and freedom, persecuting opposition leaders, who are victims of a ruthless political persecution, violating all their fundamental rights in a framework of state terrorism.”
Source: Ambito
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