2024-01-23 00:27:00
Maria Corina Machado (EFE/ Rayner Peña R.)
The presidential candidate of Venezuela’s main opposition coalition, María Corina Machado, described this Monday as “surreal and delirious plots” the conspiratorial plans denounced by the Prosecutor’s Office, which included the assassination of President Nicolás Maduro and assaults on military installations.
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In her account on as a political tool in the absence of support.
“Maduro is a repressive candidate and the country has portrayed him for what he is and that is called pure and simple cowardice, because he knows that he does not have people, so he appeals to rifles and sentences,” said the former liberal deputy in a video with which he accompanied his message.
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She added that Venezuelan society “has lost fear” and demonstrated it with her participation in the opposition primaries on October 22, in which she won with 93.13% of the 2.5 million registered votes.
The Attorney General of Venezuela, Tarek William Saab (Europa Press/Cristian Hernández)
Venezuela’s attorney general said Monday that some 14 arrest warrants were issued once morest civilians and former military personnel for allegedly participating in conspiracies once morest the government of Nicolás Maduro.
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On January 15, the Venezuelan president indicated in his annual message to Parliament that between May and December conspiracies once morest him and his officials were dismantled.
Attorney General Tarek William Saab said he asked a court on January 19 to issue arrest warrants once morest those involved in the conspiracies.
“The five conspiracies revealed, the five plots that I wanted to describe as a conspiracy continued from May to date, are all being, as I have explained, prosecuted, prosecuted, to finally have a definitive sentence with the maximum penalty,” Saab said.
He added that due to the conspiracies that have occurred since last year, some 32 people, including military and civilians, have already been detained, without giving more details.
Maduro recently denounced that the conspiracies had the objective of assassinating him and Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino.
For the last conspiracy at the end of 2023, the prosecution mentioned arrest warrants once morest the human rights activist, Tamara Sujú and the Infobae journalist Sebastiana Barráez.
Sujú and Barráez are residing abroad. On social networks, Sujú said that “the prosecutor continues to criminalize the work of lawyers and human rights defenders.”
The Ministry of Defense announced in a statement that these activities managed to attract professionals from the armed forces, but did not specify the number.
“We will have zero tolerance for unscrupulous traitors, which is why we have requested our Commander in Chief for his immediate demotion and expulsion from the FANB (Bolivarian National Armed Forces),” said Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino.
(With information from EFE and Archyde.com)
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