After testing positive for Covid, the delivery has been cancelled. His ordeal began when the Madrid Municipal Police arrested him in 2019 for having a red notice from Interpol
The extradition of Ernesto Quintero, the Venezuelan who applied for asylum in Spain and who was to be handed over to Caracas tomorrow, has been suspended. The lawyers of Quintero They were trying to save the persecuted Venezuelan from the extradition ordered by the National High Court, scheduled for this Saturday. Quintero, who has been in the Soto del Real prison for a year, has tested positive for Covid in the last test that has been carried out, as reported to EL MUNDO by defender Ismael Oliver.
“I take it for granted that the deportation will be suspended, but I don’t rule out that they put him on the plane either”, protested before knowing the suspension the lawyer, who last week presented the third request for asylum for his client, denied again by the National High Court. In principle, the former employee of a brokerage house was going to fly from Madrid to Turkey and from there to Caracas.
Quintero’s family reported from Maracaibo, Venezuela’s second largest city, that agents from the Bolivarian Intelligence Service (Sebin) came to their home to threaten them. “We will be delighted to receive Ernesto”they told their parents, according to their lawyer.
Quintero, 42 years old, lives in Spain a bizarre process that could end with his delivery to the Venezuelan justice, one of the tentacles of Chavismo at the service of his hierarchs. “All can be tortured and killed”insists his wife, Cismary Marcano, who today has chained herself in front of the Congress of Deputies.
The National High Court and the Council of Ministers have remained firm in their decision to extradite Quintero despite the position against the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR). Neither the Spanish judges nor the Government have considered that the Public Prosecutor’s Office International Criminal Court investigates the Bolivarian revolution for committing crimes against humanity. United Nations reports accredit torture and sexual violations against detainees. Judicial independence is today an impossible utopia in Chavista Venezuela.
Quintero worked as an administrator at ABA Mercado de Capitales, one of the brokerage houses intervened by Hugo Chvez in 2010. Its owners were accused of fraud of 50 million dollars, but Quintero worked with the state auditors for three years, side by side, and was even recognized for it. Later, when he was already working in another company, he was chosen as a scapegoat, the victim of a corruption scheme.
Already a refugee in Spain with his wife and eight-year-old daughter, the Madrid Municipal Police arrested him in 2019 for having a red notice from Interpol. Thus began his ordeal.
“Ernesto’s surrender makes no sense. The National Court has declared on other occasions that the delivery to Venezuela should not be accepted because there are no guarantees of compliance with human rights and the lack of partiality and justice in its courts is unquestionable,” Quintero’s defense denounced.
Quintero lived these hours of anguish in the income module of Soto del Real, where he was transferred to carry out tomorrow’s extradition.
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