Chavismo demands the arrest of Juan Guaidó from Interpol

INTERNATIONAL / By Carmen Gomaro

The Chavista Attorney General's Office has launched itself again against Juan Guaidó, former president in charge of Venezuela and former president of the democratic National Assembly (AN), whom they accuse of causing losses to the State of 20,000 million dollars and of a battery of very serious crimes. revolutionaries: treason, usurpation of functions, profit from money and use of public property, money laundering and association to commit a crime.

“We have issued an arrest warrant against the satrap known as Guaidó and the respective request for a red alert to Interpol so that this subject pays for these crimes,” said the head of the Public Ministry, Tarek William Saab, who did not spare disqualifications against the opposition leader, “international criminal and criminal boss who leads a criminal group like the ones we know here, Koki or Niño Guerrero”. The latter is the head of the feared Tren de Aragua, a mafia group that has spread throughout the region to become the most powerful along with the Colombian guerrillas of the National Liberation Army (ELN)..

The excuse that Chavismo gives for the new attack against Guaidó, exiled in the United States since last April, is the decision of a Federal Court in Colorado on the Citgo case, a US subsidiary of Petróleos de Venezuela intervened by Washington after the support granted to the presidency in charge of Guaidó. The judicial ruling states that Guaidó's government used part of these resources to finance itself, as planned, but it says nothing about personal use..

“This is how the machine of promoting lies of the dictatorship works: the post-lie to wash its propaganda and physically and morally persecute the Venezuelan opposition. The illegal issuance of bonds, expropriations and mortgages to the country caused the lawsuits and losses to the nation, not to mention (the corruption cases) of Tarek El Aissami (oil czar purged this year), Chávez's nurse (extradited by Spain to USA and sentenced there to 15 years in prison for money laundering and bribery), Odebrecht (Brazilian construction company that flooded the Americas with bribes and obtained billions from Chavismo).

Chavismo's attack against the opposition has not been limited only to Guaidó. The Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ), Nicolás Maduro's main hammer against the democratic ranks, yesterday approved the extradition of Antonio Ledezma, former mayor of Caracas; Dinorah Figuera, president of the current non-Chavista National Assembly; and the legislative vice presidents Auristela Vásquez and Marianela Fernández.

Three of the extradition requests will be made to the government of Pedro Sánchez, since both Ledezma, Figuera and Vásquez are exiled in Spain.

Ledezma is also accused of treason, in addition to conspiracy and instigation to commit a crime, for statements in which the former mayor assured that they were holding conversations with the military. Against the three deputies, who are part of the new opposition board of directors that replaced Guaidó, the accusations of traitors to the country are repeated (the most used in Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba), in addition to usurpation of functions and legitimation of capital.

“We will continue to fight, nothing will break us. The principles are not agreed nor our iron will to serve the cause of freedom,” responded Ledezma, whose sentence against him was written by the former president of the Supreme Court, Maikel Moreno, sanctioned by the European Union.