María Corina Machado, national coordinator of Vente Venezuela, called the exchange of prisoners between the governments of Nicolás Maduro and that of Joe Biden.
In a message posted on his account at Twitter He listed the consequences of the decision announced this Saturday.
In Machado’s opinion, with this measure “justice is sacrificed for the ‘pax criminal’.” But in addition, they generate “perverse incentives in favor of drug trafficking and international kidnapping.”
Message from Maria Corina Machado
In another of the points he wrote, he considered that with this political movement they despise human rights.
He added that these releases convey “weakness in the greatest Western democracy.”
Machado also considered that this exchange “degrades the struggle for freedom in Venezuela.”
Very serious mistake.
1. Sacrifice justice for the “criminal pax”
2. It generates perverse incentives in favor of drug trafficking and international kidnapping
3. Disregards human rights
4. It conveys weakness in the greatest Western democracy
5. It degrades the fight for freedom in Venezuela– Maria Corina Machado (@MariaCorinaYA) October 2, 2022
Release of the nephews of Cilia Flores and Americans in Venezuela
This Saturday the United States released two relatives of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, convicted of drug trafficking in New York. This in exchange for the release of seven imprisoned Americans in Venezuela, including five directors of the Citgo oil company.
The exchange is the result of talks that began on March 5, when Maduro met in Caracas with a high-level US delegation headed by Juan González, US President Joe Biden’s advisor for Latin America, the government detailed in a statement. Venezuelan.