The Argentine Justice ordered an investigation into the possible responsibility of the Government of Nicolás Maduro for “alleged crimes” committed in Venezuela, within the framework of the “principle of universal justice,” official sources reported this Friday.
The decision was supported by judges Leopoldo Bruglia, Pablo Bertuzzi and Mariano Llorens, of Chamber I of the Federal Chamber of Buenos Aires, who, in their ruling, indicated that “it is appropriate to assume the universal jurisdiction and extraterritorial jurisdiction of the judicial bodies.” of the Argentine Republic for due judgment.
The investigation was promoted in 2023 by federal prosecutor Carlos Stornelli, after complaints filed by the Argentine Forum for the Defense of Democracy (FADD) and the Clooney Foundation for Justice (CFJ, for its acronym in English), which seek to determine ” “If human rights violations were committed in Venezuela with evidence of crimes against humanity by the Venezuelan security forces against the opposition,” the FADD reported.
According to the ruling, the proceedings must be carried out “with speed” because they are “essential to counterbalance the criminal actions carried out by the state authorities of the Venezuelan government.”
“If the legal requirements are met, the call for an investigation of those accused here will be moved forward,” Bruglia and Bertuzzi added.
To this, Llorens added that it is “cannot be postponed” for the judge to decide to “call for an investigative statement” against Maduro, the deputy Diosdado Cabello – considered number two of Chavismo – “and all those identified as responsible” and that those responsible for “the serious violations of human rights and crimes against humanity” denounced.
«It is a historical fact because he (Maduro) will be investigated for torture, forced disappearance of people and imprisonment. (…) It is a true act of justice to put on the bench those who have shed the blood of their people,” the president of the FADD, Waldo Wolff, published on the social network X.
The one who has been Minister of Security of the City of Buenos Aires since last December recalled that the members of the FADD were “firm” in “defense of democracy” at the beginning of 2023, when they protested against the participation of Maduro – who ultimately did not travel – at the Celac Summit in Argentina, the country that held the temporary presidency -under the Administration of the Peronist Alberto Fernández (2019-2023)-.
For her part, Elisa Trotta, general secretary of the FADD, expressed in a statement that “the world must be made smaller for those who seek to remain in power through barbarism” and that “torture, forced disappearance, imprisonment and Selective persecution are crimes against humanity”, which must be investigated, in addition to the International Criminal Court (ICC), “by the justice system of countries like Argentina.”
Recently, after the disappearance of activist Rocío San Miguel, arrested on February 9, after being accused of her alleged link to a conspiracy that included an assassination plan against Maduro, the FADD expanded its complaint “for crimes against humanity.”
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2024-09-30 11:20:40
