Nicolás Maduro faces
a multinational pincer
.
On the one hand, in Caracas this Monday
a gigantic
protest march against
low wages
and the Chavista dictatorship is planned, while in Buenos Aires his presence at the CELAC summit on Tuesday will be protested.
Although they are geographically distant, the two demonstrations coincide in their purposes of
protesting and repudiating the Venezuelan president
, whose head has a reward of 15 million dollars and several accusations in the UN and the International Criminal Court for violation of human rights and crimes against It hurts humanity.
In fact, Caracas has been filled with bounty hunters seeking to
collect US$90 million for the arrest of 11 officials wanted
by the United States.
In an interview with
Clarín
in March 2021, the Venezuelan criminal lawyer Alejandro Rebolledo, with offices in Miami, clarified that the list of the most wanted by Washington is headed by Nicolás Maduro with a reward of 15 million dollars and followed by Diosdado Cabello with 10 million.
Sought.
The United States offers 15 million dollars for Nicolás Maduro.
Photo: courtesy
"They are accused of drug trafficking, money laundering and terrorism. And the rewards are for those who provide information or data that leads to the arrest of those people," he said.
Those are the reasons why Maduro
prefers to isolate himself
and not attend the invitations.
You win they do not lack.
Since then, Maduro travels very little abroad and
only lands in countries where his safety is guaranteed
to escape bounty hunters and judges who seek to detain him for trial.
March in Caracas: low wages and inflation
In Caracas the unions of professionals, public employees, teachers and teachers have called for this Monday
"23 de Enero",
an emblematic date against the dictatorship, a massive march.
It is to protest the low minimum wage of 7 dollars per month, the acute economic crisis,
inflation of 300% last year,
the extreme poverty of 6.5 million Venezuelans suffering from hunger, according to UN figures, the 270 prisoners politicians and
the exodus of 7.5 million who have escaped poverty.
Venezuelans demonstrate on Sunday against the possible arrival in Argentina of Maduro.
Photo: EFE
In Buenos Aires, the protest is expected to take place at the Torre de los Ingleses, in front of the Sheraton Hotel, venue for the CELAC summit, to which the government of Alberto Fernández invited Maduro.
In fact, there were already protests this Sunday.
The Venezuelan community residing in the South American country and the Argentine opposition have joined in repudiating their controversial presence at the event.
Argentines have wanted to go beyond protesting the Venezuelan president for his participation in CELAC (Community of Latin American and Caribbean States),
a regional political body founded by Hugo Chávez and Fidel Castro in 2011
without any kind of practical significance.
The Argentine judiciary is willing to open an investigation into Maduro
for crimes against humanity,
considering that these types of crimes have international jurisdiction, as happened with Pinochet, 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 legislators such as the radical Karina Banfi, Ricardo López Murphy will participate in the acts.
The Venezuelan Elisa Trotta Gamus
, former representative of Venezuelan Juan Guaidó in Argentina and who now works together with compatriots in Argentina
, also joined the protest .
Some of them participate in the
criminal complaint against Maduro, Daniel Ortega (Nicaragua) and Miguel Díaz-Canel
(Cuba) as soon as the news was rumored that they would travel to Buenos Aires.
Until this Monday, only Díaz Canel had landed in Buenos Aires.
He did it on Sunday night a few minutes before Lula da Silva arrived.
Lula da Silva arrives at Aeroparque.
Photo: AFP
"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," Banfi assured
Clarín
.
And he added: "It is important that Argentine justice take action on the matter since any dictator must be persecuted in the world under the universal jurisdiction of aberrant human rights crimes, such as those committed in those towns."
The case is now being processed by the prosecutor Gerardo Pollicita and the judge Sebastián Casanello.
"I will be in the march against dictatorships, authoritarianism and the violation of human rights. It is a burden for the national government to go to the UN, defend CFK, attack our Justice, while embracing Maduro, Díaz Canel and Ortega", Wolff (PRO) had told Clarín.
"Maduro
must be arrested immediately
for having committed crimes against humanity. As happened with Pinochet in London in 1998," he had pointed out.
In March of last year, an Argentine court issued a warrant for the arrest and arrest of Diosdado Cabello, Maduro's second in command,
for his links 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 the former Spanish president José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero to whiten his face in the face of so many accusations.
On a lightning trip to Caracas to free
former Venezuelan Interior Minister José Rodríguez Torres,
two days ago he spoke with the Caracas president to include the issue of money laundering on his agenda that he will develop in Buenos Aires.
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