The president of the National Assembly (AN), deputy Jorge Rodríguez, reported this Saturday that 1,557 amnesty requests have been received after the legal instrument was approved and sanctioned. “That they are being attended to immediately and at this moment there are hundreds of releases of people deprived of liberty who benefit from the Amnesty Law.”
«Until yesterday we had 405 requests from people deprived of liberty. To date, 1,152 new attitudes have been received, a total of 1,557, which are being attended to immediately and at this moment there are already hundreds of releases of people deprived of liberty who benefit from the law of justice,” he reported.
The announcement was made by the highest representative of the Legislative Branch during his participation in the consultation process for the Red Cross Law that took place on Andrés Bello Avenue in Caracas.
Likewise, Rodríguez reported that the Amnesty Law Monitoring Commission is attending to the request of 11,000 people who were under an alternative regime of deprivation of liberty.
«We have and are contemplated in the law 11,000 people who received substitute measures for the deprivation of liberty by the Venezuelan justice system, that is, they were deprived of liberty, but now they are in a regime of presentation or are in a regime of house in prison, and the law contemplates that these substitute measures are debated so that people can enjoy freedom (…) In that sense, we are attending to the request of more than 11,000 people who were under a substitute regime of their issue of deprivation of liberty, their issue of justice and those 11,000 people are going to be attended to by the Law Monitoring Committee,” he explained.
He reiterated the need for dialogue to build peace. «It is the contribution to a peace that hopefully will last. A peace where we all respect each other. A peace where we can discuss differences in all areas without resorting to hatred, polarization, or any verbal abuse.”
In this sense, he warned that from the position of extremism they are beginning to pervert the scope of the law, “to lie, to insult, to use money to hire influencers; That’s not going to bother us. “We already know it, we already know what its practices are and this law is precisely to leave those practices behind, leave behind those malicious intentions of those who led the country to one of the greatest tragedies it has suffered.”
In this regard, he called not to fall into provocations and insisted that the best path to peace is dialogue. “That the best path to peace is agreement and this amnesty law is a great first step towards achieving that peace.”
On the other hand, the president of parliament highlighted article 12 of the law that contemplates the recognition and care of victims. «I believe that this law not only recognizes the victims of its articles, but also establishes a step so that we do not repeat the errors of the past (…) The facts were identified there. And the facts are a journey through the recent history of the last 20 years of Venezuela. And I think it is one that produces a powerful message for everyone, that we can live, we can work, we can develop politically within the framework established by the Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.
“There is no political process and government in the history of this country that has cared for the victims of political violence more than the Bolivarian government of Commander Hugo Chávez, President Nicolás Maduro and the acting president Delcy Rodríguez,” he added.
In this order of ideas, Rodríguez recalled how during the governments of the Sixth Republic, people were murdered and disappeared. «Who treated the victims? Who cared for the husbands and wives of the disappeared? Who cared for the children of those murdered in the basements of the military intelligence directorate? Who cared for the victims of the massacres of February 27, 28, first and March 2, 1989? Precisely, we had to wait for the Bolivarian revolution and the government of Commander Chávez to attend to the victims of the caracazo of February 27, where more than 4,000 people were murdered and thrown into common graves.
Deputy Rodríguez reiterated his call to extremist sectors in their desire to request sanctions and attacks against the country. “On the contrary, the message that the amnesty law sends is a message of reconciliation.”
«Enough of asking for sanctions, attacks against the country, enough that if you lost an election, then you go out into the streets to burn, to murder, to destroy. Enough of the insult, enough of the bullying, enough of financing campaigns to morally murder people and also later to physically attack them (…)».
