CARACAS.- He Argentine presidential spokesperson, Manuel Adornistated this morning that talks are being held with the Nicolás Maduro regime to obtain safe passage for the six opponents who are at the headquarters of the Embassy of Argentina in Caracas since last March 26 and to whom the government of Javier Milei He granted them asylum.
“Conversations with the Venezuelan government continue to ensure that asylum seekers can effectively seek asylum and that safe passage is assured,” Adorni said at a press conference this Thursday morning.
These statements come after on Wednesday night the Chavista leader, Diosdado Cabello, assured in his television program “Con el mallet giving” that the Maduro regime denied safe passage to the opponents.
“They are not going to pressure us. Today I think the government’s response came out. Venezuela: denied. There are no safe passages for those who do not love this country,” said Cabello, who is the first vice president of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV).
The six opponents are close collaborators of the opposition leader María Corina Machado and three of them worked on the opposition’s campaign. This is: Pedro Urruchurtu, International Coordinator of Sell Venezuela; Magalli Meda, who served as Machado’s Campaign Manager; Claudia Macero, Communications Coordinator of the Machado campaign; Omar González, deputy to the National Assembly; Humberto Villalobos, Electoral Coordinator of the Machado Campaign Command and Fernando Martínez Motolla, advisor to the Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD).
The Argentine embassy in Caracas welcomed these Venezuelan opponents, after the Maduro regime arbitrarily detained several members of Machado’s party, Vente Venezuela, as well as other people working on his campaign.
The Office of Argentine President Javier Milei said, in a statement released on social networks, that he received these people based on the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations and due to the “concern” that Milei’s Executive has, so described as “the deterioration of the institutional situation and the acts of harassment and persecution directed against political figures in Venezuela.”
Later, in April, the Government of Argentina reported that it granted asylum to the six Venezuelan opponents, according to Foreign Minister Diana Mondino. At that time, Mondino stated that safe passages were being managed.
These events occur while Venezuela prepares for the next presidential elections on July 28, and while the opposition continues to denounce the Maduro regime for persecuting its leaders.
“The Maduro regime continues to systematically violate Human Rights in Venezuela by illegally maintaining the arrest warrant for more than 50 days on these six members of the opposition,” said David Smolansky, deputy director of María Corina Machado’s Campaign Office in Washington, reported Infobae.
The Argentine media added that Buenos Aires would be planning to present the case to international organizations such as the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) and the Organization of American States (OAS).
Source: EDITORIAL / With information from Infobae
