The Venezuelan democratic opposition begins today the election campaign that will take her, if Nicolás Maduro does not prevent it, to the primaries of the October 22. And she does it in full attack of the Bolivarian revolution against the favorite candidate, the conservative Maria Corina Machadoindirect victim of the arrest warrant requested by the Chavista prosecutor, Tarek William Saab, against Antonio Ledezmawho serves as the international coordinator of his party, Vente Venezuela.
The prosecutor has even advanced that he will ask the government of Pedro Sánchez for the extradition of the former mayor of Caracas, exiled in Madrid for six years after fleeing the clutches of the dictatorship. The excuse used on this occasion by Saab are statements by Ledezma to a Venezuelan journalist in Miami in which she stated, according to the Prosecutor’s Office, that a civil rebellion with the support of a military uprising, which they qualify as treason.
“We hope that the Spanish authorities act and that international laws are respected and that not only this person, but also those who accompany them inside and outside Venezuela in this case, can be prosecuted. macabre planSaab added.
The most picturesque aspect of the matter is that during the controversial interview, Ledezma assured that they were having “conversations” with the military, but that it was not a conspiracy. What Machado’s candidacy does insist on is the need to implement “civil disobedience” to put pressure on Maduro and that he be forced to allow Machado to participate in next year’s presidential elections if he finally wins the democratic nomination.
“This is one more script, a continued harassment of this whole plot that has to do with the pattern of conduct of a regime that develops a whole policy of harassment and persecution against those of us who are dissidents,” Ledezma replied.