CARACAS.- The former heads of State and Government members of the Democratic Initiative of Spain and the Americas (IDEA Group), they rejected the new dictatorial attack of the regime of Venezuela following the arrest order of 13 other leaders of the Venezuelan opposition, linked to Vente Venezuela, the political party of the presidential candidate María Corina Machado.
In the statement issued by IDEA, the former heads of state compared the persecution of the Maduro regime with what is happening in Nicaragua with dissidence against the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega.
Also, IDEA has stated that these types of actions threaten the democratic realization of a free electoral process in 2024. Which is why they ask the International Community to be on alert as well as take “urgent measures that allow the dictatorial overflow to be contained.” in that nation and its threats to international peace and security”.
DECLARATION ON THE PERSECUTION AND CRIMINALIZATION OF DEMOCRATIC LEADERSHIP IN VENEZUELA
The former heads of State and Government participating in the Democratic Initiative of Spain and the Americas (IDEA), aware that the Public Ministry of Venezuela has ordered the arrest of several actors of the democratic opposition, particularly the work team of the leader and presidential candidate María Corina Machado, accusing them of treason for having considered unnecessary the holding of the non-binding consultative referendum called by the government of Nicolás Maduro Moros regarding the dispute over the Essequibo territory, which is currently being heard by the International Court of Justice; warning about the seriousness of this precedent, which repeats the experience of the dictatorship in Nicaragua and conspires against the holding of free, fair, equitable and observable presidential elections in 2024; call to alert the international community and the democratic governments of the world, the Secretary General of the United Nations, the Permanent Council and the General Secretariat of the Organization of American States (OAS) and the guarantors of the Barbados Agreements (USA , European Union, Canada, United Kingdom), about the criminalization of democratic dissidence in Venezuela. To this end, we ask that emergency measures be adopted to contain the dictatorial overflow in said nation and its threats to international peace and security.
Mario Abdo, Paraguay
Oscar Arias, Costa Rica
José María Aznar, Spain
Nicolás Ardito Barletta, Panama
Felipe Calderon, Mexico
Rafael Ángel Calderón, Costa Rica
Laura Chinchilla, Costa Rica
Alfredo Cristiani, El Salvador
Ivan Duque, Colombia
Carlos Mesa, G., Bolivia
Ernesto Pérez Balladares, Panama
José María Figueres, Costa Rica
Vicente Fox, Mexico
Federico Franco, Paraguay
Eduardo Frei, Chile
Lucio Gutierrez, Ecuador
Osvaldo Hurtado, Ecuador
Luis Alberto Lacalle H., Uruguay
Mauricio Macri, Argentina
Jamil Mahuad, Ecuador
Lenin Moreno, Ecuador
Mireya Moscoso, Panama
Andrés Pastrana, Colombia
Sebastian Piñera, Chile
Jorge Tuto Quiroga, Bolivia
Mariano Rajoy, Spain
Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, Costa Rica
Julio María Sanguinetti, Uruguay
Luis Guillermo Solis, Costa Rica
Alvaro Uribe V., Colombia
John Carlos Wasmosy, Paraguay
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Source: IDEA GROUP
