Venezuela, OAS Secretary to Call for Maduro's Arrest | EUROtoday

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An escalation. The energy of the federal government, the resistance of the opposition. “A vote with a tilted playing field”, the election performed on a tilted subject. This is the metaphor used to contest the outcome that may have reconfirmed Nicolas Maduro as president of Venezuela.

The conflict is head-on: the opposition doesn’t give in, the federal government doesn’t retreat. Maduro, president elected by the National Electoral Council (CNE), stays in workplace at Palacio Miraflores, formalizing the beginning of his third time period. The opposition Edmundo Gonzalez receives the popularity of the United States, as “presidente electo”. Luis Almagro, secretary basic of the OAS – Organization of American States, primarily based in Washington, which incorporates 36 unbiased states of the Americas, created in 1948 to strengthen peace and safety – will ask the International Criminal Court to indict Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and problem an arrest warrant for him for the bloody repression of the protests.

Blinken's strain

The U.S. authorities has introduced that it’ll acknowledge opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez because the winner of the Venezuelan presidential election:

“Given the overwhelming evidence, it is clear to the United States and, most importantly, to the Venezuelan people that Gonzalez received the most votes in the July 28 presidential election,” U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken stated.

At the identical time, Maduro introduced in a reside broadcast on Venezuelan tv that he’s making ready two most safety prisons the place he intends to incarcerate the protesters arrested through the protests towards the election outcomes. “There will be no forgiveness. We have captured more than 1,200 and we are looking for another thousand,” the Venezuelan president stated, including that his objective can be to rework them into “re-education centers.” “I have decided to create these two maximum security prisons for all the new generation gangs that are involved in the 'guarimba' (barricades and checkpoints, ed.) and criminal attacks, and there will be no pardon,” Maduro stated. It is the dialectical technique geared toward criminalizing the opposition. The opposition chief, Maria Corina Machado, has known as for a number of demonstrations for in the present day, in lots of cities throughout the nation.