Natasha Niebieskikwiat
05/26/2021 8:11 PM
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 05/26/2021 8:11 PM
Step by step, the Government finished dismantling the policy of pressure towards the Nicolás Maduro regime with a forceful step: Argentina withdrew its accusation before the International Criminal Court in The Hague for alleged
crimes against humanity
committed by the Chavista leaders.
Diplomatic sources confirmed the decision published on Wednesday on the site Russia Today.
And they specified that the Government made official the withdrawal of the folder and the accusation against Venezuela in the ICC on March 25,
the day after it formalized its departure from the Lima Group
.
At that time, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs considered that he was withdrawn from said group, considering that his actions had "led to nothing" -
The following day, the Argentine embassy to the Netherlands, led by diplomat Mario Oyarzabal, sent a letter to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Fatou Bensouda.
He asked him to
withdraw all the efforts initiated by Argentina against Venezuela
.
"The Government of the Argentine Republic withdraws from said referral as well as from any presentation made in that framework, including Note OI 48/2019 of September 30, 2019 linked to a report prepared by the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights of Argentina ", refers the letters According to Russia Today.
It was President
Mauricio Macri
who in August 2018 announced that together with other leaders he was going to present a request to the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate possible crimes committed in Venezuela.
He finally did so together with Canada, Chile, Colombia, Paraguay and Peru, and also with the international secretary of the OAS, Luis Almagro.
Argentina attached to The Hague a folder with complaints from numerous Venezuelan immigrants in this country who also made their complaints about the hardships experienced under the Chavista regime.
The High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michele Bachelet, has denounced
thousands of human rights abuses committed in Venezuela
, where she said there is a lack of judicial independence and freedom of expression.
Diplomatic sources at the OAS, where the government of Alberto Fernández refuses to criticize Maduro, linked the statements of the President's last days to precisely this decision.
Fernández unexpectedly said that the "human rights problem" in Venezuela is "disappearing", which generated the rejection of the representative of Juan Guaidó in Argentina, Elisa Trotta Gamus.
Those movements of the Government are also related to Foreign Minister Nicolás Maduro's request to Joe Biden's adviser in the National Security Council, Juan Gonzalez, for the United States to have a gesture of détente with Venezuela.
And with the Venezuelan regional elections in November, which for Argentina are as valid as the highly questioned legislative elections of December 6 of last year.
The current prosecutor of The Hague, Bensouda ends her management discredited before the human rights community of Venezuela. She is accused under her breath of having delayed the cases excessively, of being a "friend" of the former Venezuelan ambassador to the Netherlands, an extremely trusted official of Maduro. The open cause for causes in Palestine do not have the same slowness. Likewise, none of this is confirmed, but rather the transcendent diplomats in the Netherlands.