Vice President Delcy Rodríguez indicated that, at the meeting with the deputy prosecutor of the CPI, it was delivered as evidence to be included in the preliminary examination Venezuela II a study “published in The Lancet magazine that demonstrates the impact on the health and life of the peoples of unilateral coercive measures”
Vice President Delcy Rodríguez claimed on Friday, August 8, the “slowness” of the preliminary examination advanced by the Prosecutor’s Office of the International Criminal Court (CPI), at the request of the Venezuelan State, on the alleged crimes against humanity committed by the United States through the economic sanctions imposed on the country.
“That file has not moved, that file is detained but the impact that illicit sanctions have had, in this case Venezuela, has had an impact where economic suffocation derived from the loss of 99% of our foreign exchange income has caused social wounds in health, education, food, in social programs,” assured Rodríguez from Hague (Netherlands), after a meeting with the deputy prosecutor of the ICC, Mame Mandiaye Niang.
The vice president indicated that, at the meeting with the deputy prosecutor, it was delivered as evidence to be included in the Preliminary Exam Venezuela II a study “published in The Lancet magazine that demonstrates the impact on the health and life of the peoples of unilateral coercive measures.”
As he said, this study covered 152 countries and determined that more than 564 thousand people, “disproportionately under five years and older adults, die every year product of the sanctions adopted by the United States government and other Western countries that promote the policy of the so -called regime change.”
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“We have delivered more evidence of what Venezuela has been holding: that crimes provided for in the Statute of Rome have been committed as murder, as persecution against the Venezuelan people, as extermination and aggravation of humanitarian situations,” said Rodríguez.
He insisted that “these types of cases are unfortunately fooled, they are not given priority,” while recalled that the complaint made to the CPI against the United States for the “blockade” against Venezuela has been five years.
«I hope that these types of international organizations do not feet in the attempt to apply justice, and that it is a decolonized justice, that it is a depoliticized justice. I think the most pathetic example we can see today is what is happening in Gaza, ”he said.
Recently, the CPI Appeals Chamber asked the prosecutor Karim Khan to depart for three weeks from the Venezuelan investigation on alleged crimes against humanity committed in the country, considering that there are reasonable reasons to doubt his impartiality.
The opening of the investigation was announced by Khan in November 2021 during a visit to Venezuela, considering that crimes of persecution and torture have been committed, including sexual abuse, committed at least since 2017. The main ones indicated by the victims are officials of the executive of Nicolás Maduro.
*Journalism in Venezuela is exercised in a hostile environment for the press with dozens of legal instruments arranged for the punishment of the word, especially the laws “against hatred”, “against fascism” and “against blockade.” This content was written taking into consideration the threats and limits that, consequently, have been imposed on the dissemination of information from within the country.
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