United States.- The US senator blond frame asked the State Attorney General, Merrick B. Garland, on Monday to request Interpol to issue a “Red alert” for the search and capture of the Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, who has been on an international tour for days.
“Maduro is a criminal accused of allying with terrorist organizations to use illegal drugs as weapons against the United States. In the interest of US national security and regional stability, Maduro must be prosecuted for his crimes against the Venezuelan people.”the Florida senator wrote in his letter.
In the letter, also sent to the US Secretary of Homeland Security, Alexander Mayorkasthe senator of Cuban origin stressed that Maduro is making a tour of countries that are members of Interpol.
“Maduro apparently feels safe enough to travel abroad to garner support for his regime from other autocrats,” the Floridian stated.
Coinciding with the Summit of the Americas held last week in Los Angeles, to which Venezuela was not invited by the US, considering that it is not a democracy, Maduro began an international tour that has taken him to Turkey, Algeria and Iran, where on Saturday he met with the country’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei.
Last Friday, Rubio had urged the international community to see Maduro as a “threat” and had branded him a “drug dictator.”
“While the democracies meet in Los Angeles, Maduro is in Tehran. That should tell you everything you need to know.” about the Chavista leader, considered the Republican.
In his letter to Garland, Rubio recalled that his predecessor, William Barr, filed charges in March 2020 against the Venezuelan president and 14 other Chavismo figures, as well as two dissidents from the former FARC guerrilla, for drug trafficking, money laundering, money and terrorism.
Barr then assured that since 1999 Maduro and other high officials such as Diosdado Cabello, number two of Chavismo, are part of the “Cartel of the Suns”, which, together with FARC dissidents, sent some 250 tons to the US. of cocaine per year.
“The United States should use all available options to ensure that international fugitives, such as former President Maduro, are brought to justice.”reiterated the legislator in his letter.
According to Interpol, “red notices” are issued to “fugitives wanted either for prosecution or to serve a sentence” and are used by law enforcement agencies around the world to locate and provisionally arrest a person “pending extradition, surrender, or similar legal action.”
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In addition to Maduro and Cabello, among those accused by the Justice of this country is the former Chavista intelligence chief, former General Hugo Carvajal, detained in Spain and pending possible extradition to the United States, and former military chief Cliver Alcalá, who has already faces the charges brought against him in a New York court.
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