The Venezuelan Prosecutor’s Office announced early this Friday the opening of an investigation against the leader of anti-Chavismo Maria Corina Machado for – he has assured – supporting the bill approved in the United States House of Representatives that prohibits US Government institutions from hiring people or companies that have commercial ties with the Chavista Executive.
Through a statement published on Instagram, the Public Ministry (MP, Prosecutor’s Office) stated that it has decided to start this investigation against Machado to “be charged for her promotion and support of said legal eyesore that sponsors terrible criminal acts against the Venezuelan people.”
The institution maintained that the statements that Machado has made in favor of this bill constitute the commission of crimes of “betrayal of the country” conspiracy with foreign countries, as well as criminal association.
On Wednesday, Machado predicted consequences for the Government of Nicolás Maduro for this bill. «The Bolívar law (officially the Law for the Prohibition of Operations and Leases with the Illegitimate Authoritarian Regime of Venezuela) sends a clear message to the regime: “Repression and criminal activities have consequences and no one will be able to normalize them,” stated Machado through X, although the norm must be approved by the Senate for it to become effective.
Meanwhile, President Nicolás Maduro described the rule as “garbage”, while warning that those opponents who support this bill will be committing crimes, so they must abide by “the judicial consequences”, without specifying what they would be.
On Thursday, Parliament – controlled by Chavismo – approved the discussion of an organic law that seeks to politically disqualify those who request countries, “terrorist groups or associations,” to impose economic sanctions against the Caribbean nation.
The bill was approved unanimously in the plenary session, in which the president of the Chamber, Chavista Jorge Rodríguez, insisted that the political disqualification must be perpetual.
The Bolívar bill was presented by Florida representatives Mike Waltz, Republican, and Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Democrat, who believe, in the former’s words, that the United States should “maintain existing sanctions against the regime and seek to expand them to minimize the Maduro’s resources to abuse the freedoms and prosperity of the Venezuelan people.
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