Venezuela’s prosecutor’s office links opponent María Corina Machado to “destabilizing actions”

Venezuela’s attorney general, Tarek William Saab, joined the opposition this Wednesday Maria Corina Machado with “destabilizing actions” in protests against his disqualification ahead of the July 28 presidential elections and reported the arrest of two close associates.

Saab He did not specify, however, whether there are legal measures against the opposition leader, favorite in the polls.

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The arrest of Henry Alviárez and Dignora Hernándeznational leaders of the political organization of Ax (Sell ​​Venezuela), responded, according to Saab, to plans for “destabilizing actions” that “had to be initiated to force” its authorization.

Seven Machado collaborators were arrested in recent days and the Public Ministry issued seven more arrest warrants, said the person responsible.

“The mission of the plan” was “to generate destabilization in the country, to gather the masses using unions and student unions to encourage a military wing” in favor of a revolt, he said Saab in a press release, in which he recalled other alleged conspiracies against the president Nicolás Madurowho will seek a third six-year term.

Saab presented a video of a “confession” from one of the detained employees, Emil Brandt Ulloa, in which he guarantees that this plan was financed by USAID (United States Government Office for International Development). Brandt was arrested on March 9.

Despite an agreement announced by the government of Mature and the opposition to review the disqualification of opposition leaders in a negotiation mediated by Norway and in which it was fundamental U.Sthe disqualification Ax It was ratified in January.

Maduro called Machado a “doña violence”.

The United States and the European Union called for the disqualification against her to be lifted, as she won the primaries of the main opposition alliance, the Unitary Platform, last year.

Source: Elcomercio

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