Venezuela: Maduro creates commission to draft law against fascism and persecute opponents

Venezuela created a commission to prepare a bill against “fascism and any neo-fascist expression in the exercise of politics and national life”, announced this Sunday the executive vice-president, Delcy Rodríguez, who said that the document will be presented “soon” . before the National Assembly (AN, Parliament), controlled by Chavismo.

In X, he said that the ‘High State Commission against Fascism and Neo-Fascism‘was created by order of the president Nicolás Madurodue to “the acts of violence that the country experienced in 2014, 2015, 2017”, when there were multiple anti-government protests.

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Likewise, he continued, due to “the serious consequences for the economy, sovereignty and territorial integrity of the country compromised by the extremist factors that took over Parliament” in 2015 -in reference to the majority opposition- “to expropriate Venezuela of its resources and create internal destabilization.”

“And finally, taking into account the international situation, whose peace and stability are threatened by neofascist expressions rotting in centers of power serving the global north. In Venezuela, neither fascism nor neo-Nazism will pass“added the person in charge.

This announcement comes one day before the end of the registration period for candidates for the presidential elections on July 28, in which the majority opposition, grouped in Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD), reported impediments to the registration of your applicant, Corina Yorisproposal in response to the disqualification that prevents María Corina Machado, winner of the primaries, from competing.

In recent weeks, the PUD has also warned of a “wave of repression” and “political persecution” in the country.

This week, the head of the opposition party Vente Venezuela (VV), Henry Alviarez, and the national political secretary, former deputy Dignora Hernández, were arrested, according to the Public Ministry, for its alleged connection with violent plans related to the upcoming elections, with which seven members of this formation, led by Machado, are detained.

In turn, the Government indicated on Saturday that, since 2023, the authorities have deactivated “no less than seven conspiracies” that aimed to attack “the high leadership” of Chavismo and generate an “environment of political violence” in the face of the presidential elections.

Source: Elcomercio

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