The Venezuelan opposition led by Juan Guaidó rejected this Thursday the “new attack” of the Government against the former deputy and the group that accompanies him, whom the comptroller general of the Caribbean country, Elvis Amoroso, announced that he would denounce for the alleged theft of Parliament’s resources in the period that the anti-Chavista bloc was at the forefront (2016-2021).
“The declaration of Mr. Elvis Amoroso, sanctioned by the United States Department of the Treasury for lend themselves to the fraud of the illegitimate National Constituent Assemblyis part of the systematic pattern of political persecution against the leadership of the opposition in Venezuela“, said the opposition sector in a statement.
In the presentation of its annual management report before the Legislative this Wednesday, Amoroso pointed out that the “previous board of directors” who was in the National Assembly (AN, Parliament) headed by Guaidó “they stole even the cables, they dismantled this entire National Assembly.”
“We will go in the coming weeks to the Attorney General’s Office to do everything possible so that these gentlemen once and for all are behind bars,” he assured.
This statement, continues the anti-Chavista group, “demonstrates the lack of rule of law, judicial independence and guarantees in the exercise of civil and political rights in Venezuela”.
He indicated that thisnew attack of the dictatorship” takes place in the context of the recent visit of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (CPI), Karim Khan, to Venezuela, where he announced the installation of an office to continue the investigation of alleged crimes against humanity in the country.
“This is how the dictatorship acts in Venezuela: on the one hand, simulates a renewal within the Supreme Court of Justice that seeks to evade justice and prevent the chain of command from being investigated for crimes against humanity and, on the other hand, this same chain of command persecutes, harasses and intimidates deputies of the democratic opposition from the State channel,” he assured.
The opponents alerted the organizations and the international community that, if in the next few days “something happens” Guaidó or any of the opposition leaders“it would be under the responsibility of the dictator Nicolás Maduro”.
Last January 7, the Parliament, with a Chavista majority, created a special commission to investigate, within a month, the “crimes” allegedly committed by the opponents who led the Legislature in the last five years.
On March 4, the AN reiterated its demand to the Justice to exercise “forceful actions” against Guaidó, who was accused ofand “crimes against the Republic”, between 2016 and 2021, when he was a deputy.
