Caracas. Nicolás Maduro renewed his cabinet with the appointment of Diosdado Cabelloof the hardest wing of the chavismoas Minister of the Interior, on the eve of a new opposition protest one month after the controversial re-election of the president Venezuelan.
The changes, which include the return to the cabinet of the deputy and leader of the ruling party, Diosdado Cabelloand a change of duties for the vice president Delcy Rodriguez, which will add the Ministry of Petroleum to your wallet, they occur while Maduro modifies his rhetoric on the electoral dispute to the promised changes.
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The president announced the renewal of his cabinet on the same day that his rival in the elections of July 28, Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutiaignored a second summons from the prosecutor’s office to testify in a criminal investigation against him after reporting fraud in the elections.
The deputy Chavist He takes over the portfolio responsible for public order 22 years after serving in the government of the late socialist leader Hugo Chavezof whom he was a comrade in arms in the failed coup d’état of 1992.
Ripe ratified his Vice President, Delcy Rodriguezwho leaves the ministry of Finance and assumes the strategic oil portfolio. Vladimir Padrino will continue to lead the Defensewho has been in office since 2014.
The re-election of the ruler of left is unknown by USAthe European Union and several countries of Latin America. The opposition led by Maria Corina Machado complaint fraud and claims González Urrutia’s victory: It is a claim that nevertheless collides with the institutional wall, accused of serving Maduro.
He National Electoral Council proclaimed him the victor with 52 percent of the votesalthough without publishing the details of the result, and this in turn was validated by the Supreme Court of Justice.
Political accuser
The former presidential candidate Gonzalez Urrutiaa diplomat of 74 years oldmissed a summons for the second consecutive day at the Public Prosecutor’s Officeas part of an investigation against him. Maduro has asked for jail time for himself and Machadoaccusing them of the acts of violence in the post-election protests that left 27 dead (two of them soldiers), almost 200 wounded and more than 2,400 detained. Yesterday, the arrest of the spokesman for the campaign command of opposition leaders and lawyer of Machado, Perkins Rocha.
Urrutia last appeared in public two days after the elections, at an opposition demonstration in Caracas. Since then, he has limited himself to making statements via the Internet.
“This person who leads the coup d’état from a cave, hidden, Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutiavery cowardly. He ignores electoral power, the judiciary is unaware, ignores the Attorney General’s Office and the moral powerHe believes he is above the laws and the Constitution“What do you call that? Fascism,” Maduro lashed out.
The Prosecutor’s Office is investigating him for the alleged commission of “usurpation of functions and forging of public document”, crimes that can lead to the maximum penalty of 30 years in prison.
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The coalition that supported his candidacy, the Democratic Unitary Platform, denounced “judicial harassment” against Gonzalez Urrutiawho on Sunday dismissed the Attorney General, Tarek William Saab, of “political accuser” for promoting a subpoena without guarantees of independence and due process.
The organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) addressed the presidents of Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva; Colombia, Gustavo Petro; and Mexico, Andres Manuel Lopez Obradorto point out that repeating the presidential elections in Venezuela It would be a mockery and granting a general amnesty would violate international law and affect the rights of victims of atrocities.