• Persecution: Chavismo withdraws immunity from four opposition deputies and accuses them of treason

The hunt and capture against the deputies of the democratic Parliament continues when only two weeks remain for the momentous vote of January 5. A command of the Special Forces of the Police (FAES), considered by the United Nations the "battalions of extermination" of the revolution, arrested last night (early morning in Spain) the deputy Gilber Caro , a militant of the opposition Popular Will (VP).

With the capture of Caro there are two incarcerated deputies , about thirty those who remain in exile and a dozen who are wanted in Venezuela to suffer the same fate. Juan Guaidó, president of the National Assembly (AN), needs 84 5-E votes to stay in front of Parliament during 2020, but the 93 he obtained this week in a vote are in danger of diminishing in the face of Chavez attacks. Even the AN reformed its regulation to allow the vote of the exiles via Skype, but the government intends to prevent it anyway. The Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) declared the reform "void of any nullity" and, in the absence of Parliament, prepare new measures to prevent that vote.

"Knowing that we have an absolute majority in the AN, they also intend to use the kidnapping of Gilber Caro to cover the nine dead of the wrecked plane that came from Bolívar and that they have treated with so much opacity in their official means," Guaidó announced after knowing the detention of your classmate.

This is Caro's third political imprisonment, one of the favorite victims of the revolution. Despite having parliamentary immunity , never respected, the VP leader became the first victim of the National Anti-coup Command in early 2018.

If on that occasion the parliamentarian was arrested with his girlfriend, punished with several months in jail, now he has touched the journalist Víctor Ugas , personal assistant of the deputy and also a political prisoner for four years. Caro regained his freedom as a measure of grace before Maduro's presidential elections, but he was imprisoned again this year for almost two months. He was released thanks to the efforts undertaken by Michelle Bachelet, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, just before his trip to Caracas.

"Mature, you are a coward! As you do not have the support of the people and you do not have the votes in the AN, you send your minions to put prisoners to the deputies that you could not buy," complained Leopoldo López, VP leader, from your refuge at the Spanish Embassy in Caracas. The former political prisoner also recruited Caro for his Popular Will project.

"The FAES group must be strengthened to defend and protect the people, to build the security of the country with the people and always with the people, with the communal councils and the popular integral defense units," Maduro hailed hours before the arrest during an act in Caracas. The "son of Chávez" said that against the FAES, created by the revolutionary chief himself in 2017, an international campaign has been orchestrated with the US and Luis Almagro, OAS Secretary General, at the head. "What we are going to do is strengthen, expand, expand and professionalize them more and more," he said.

Precisely this week Bachelet has warned, in its extension of the report on the violation of human rights in Venezuela, that the FAES continue to commit "extrajudicial executions mainly against young men in slums . "

Parallel to the persecution and harassment of deputies, Chavista millionaires launched the so - called Operation Alacrán months ago, consisting of buying wills through bribes. So far there are five deputies and two substitutes who have "betrayed the cause of freedom", according to the complaint made public yesterday from Parliament.

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