Fernando Martínez Mottola was inside the Argentine Embassy in Caracas for a period of nine months
Fernando Martínez Mottola, former minister of the government of Carlos Andrés Pérez, left the Argentine Embassy in Caracas on the night of Thursday, December 19, and surrendered to the authorities who are maintaining the siege of the diplomatic legation.
According to the media, Martínez Mottola is at home after agreeing to surrender and obtaining precautionary measures. They indicate that he went “voluntarily” to the Prosecutor’s Office.
A source revealed to AFP that the former minister had suffered “pressure situations” in the Argentine Embassy by the group that had been asylum with him for nine months. So far there is no statement from Vente Venezuela in this regard.
Martínez Mottola was part of the delegation sent in 2019 by Juan Guaidó, then recognized as interim president by fifty countries, including the United States, to negotiate in Norway with a delegation from the government of Nicolás Maduro. In addition, he served as an advisor to Vente Venezuela.
The departure of the former minister is recorded in a complicated context. On the one hand, the arrest of an Argentine gendarme identified as Nahuel Gallo who, according to the Minister of the Interior and Justice, Diosdado Cabello, would have come to the country to carry out an operation to extract the six people in the legation, which for weeks has been finds herself besieged by security officials; according to opposition complaints.
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In addition, it is recorded that, for months, safe conduct has been requested for these six people at the Argentine Embassy so that they can leave for Buenos Aires; documents that until now have been denied.
A previous event that marked the situation were the revelations made by the chancellor of colombiaLuis Gilberto Murillo, who said that the government of Nicolás Maduro conditioned the delivery of safe conduct for the six Venezuelan opponents sheltered in the Argentine embassy in Caracas.
As he explained, the Venezuelan State demanded that a close ally of Chavismo detained in Argentina be released and that Jorge Glass be granted safe passage in Ecuador.
The information was confirmed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ecuador, Gabriela Sommerfeld, stating that these proposals were made in August 2024 and that the message had been transmitted by foreign ministers Luis Gilberto Murillo and Mauro Vieira, who at that time were trying to mediate with Venezuela to publish the disaggregated data of the elections; as well as with the current former chancellor Diana Mondino.
With information from EFE / AFP / The Nation / NTN24
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