The Venezuelan Prosecutor’s Office announced this Friday the opening of an investigation against the leader of anti-Chavismo Maria Corina Machado for – he assured – supporting the bill approved in the United States House of Representatives that prohibits US Government institutions hire people or companies who have commercial ties with the Chavista Executive.
Through a statement published on Instagram, the Public Ministry (MP, Prosecutor’s Office) maintained that it decided to initiate this investigation against Machado to “be charged for her promotion and support to said legal eyesore that sponsors terrible criminal acts against the Venezuelan people.”
The institution has maintained that the statements that Machado has made in favor of this bill constitute the commission of the crimes of “betrayal of the country“, conspiracy with foreign countries, as well as association to commit a crime.
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,” Machado stated through X, although the rule must be approved by the Senate for it to become effective.
Meanwhile, the president Nicolas Maduro has described the rule as “garbage”, while warning that those opponents who support this bill will be committing crimes, so they will have to abide by the judicial “consequences”, without specifying what they would be.
On Thursday, the Parliament – controlled by Chavismo – approved the discussion of an organic law that seeks politically disqualify to those who ask 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 Rodriguezinsisted that political disqualification must be perpetual.
The Bolívar bill was presented by Florida representatives Mike WaltzRepublican, and Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Democrat, who consider, in the words of the first, that the United States should “maintain the existing sanctions against the regime and seek to expand them to minimize Maduro’s resources to abuse the freedoms and prosperity of the Venezuelan people.”
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