Venezuela.Capriles breaks with the opposition and repudiates Guaidó's "Internet Government"
Pardons: Capriles deepens the schism of the Venezuelan opposition
Elections: Maduro's pardons seek to legitimize his electoral fraud
The United States has not waited for the closing of the nominations for the parliamentary elections of Nicolás Maduro, scheduled for midnight in Venezuela, and
has sanctioned two of the subordinates of the "people president" in the National Electoral Council
(CNE).
The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has included in its black list the new president of the CNE,
Indira Alfonzo
, responsible for organizing the 6-D, elections not recognized by the majority of the opposition and the international community.
OFAC has also sanctioned
José Luis Gutiérrez
, one of the new rectors of the electoral body, and brother of the political leader Bernabé Gutiérrez, to whom the Maduro Supreme Court handed over control of the opposition Democratic Action (AD) party.
The fake version of AD, a historical ally of the PSOE, has already taken over several of the headquarters of the Social Democratic Party.
"Their actions are part of a broader electoral interference scheme to
prevent free and fair parliamentary elections from being held
in December 2020 by restructuring the CNE and controlling the wealth and assets of the state for the purposes of the regime," he added OFAC.
The sanctions were known as
uncertainty
grew
about the fate of the former
opposition
presidential candidate
in 2012 and 2013, Henrique Capriles, whose Primero Justicia (PJ) party was discussing what to do after his break with the political strategy led by Juan Guaidó.
The president in charge has the
support of PJ, AD and 25 other parties
, who signed a pact in which they bet on abstention.
Capriles has tried until the last moment to get
Maduro to give in and delay the elections until March
, thereby negotiating the presence of the European Union and the UN as international observers.
Until the press time, La Fuerza del Cambio, the party created around Capriles, had not submitted its lists to the CNE.
The former governor of Miranda got Maduro to pardon 110 political prisoners and opposition leaders.
A second round of releases is expected next
week
.
But in addition, Capriles demands that the kidnapping of democratic parties, intervened by Maduro's Supreme Court, cease.
NEW OPPOSITOR POLITICAL LANDSCAPE
The demarcation of Capriles, which has caused a true schism in the opposition, rethinks a new political landscape in the opposition.
"We can feel frustrated today by Henrique's decision not to join the process, but the response must be joint, from the parties and from Parliament," claimed Guaidó, who has had the immediate support of Washington.
"It is absurd to take the debate to a simplistic plane of good and bad in the opposition. There are simply divergent positions in a country that fails to produce the desired change for 80% of its population. Their sin is not having common rules to decide together . But it is a shared sin ", clarified the political scientist
Luis Vicente León
, president of Datanálisis.
The US sanctions also reached two significant chavistas: the prosecutor
Reinaldo Muñoz
and the leader
David de Lima
, a political operator of the regime, who has moved in recent months through political darkness to add new defections from the opposition ranks.
All of these people, according to OFAC, "facilitated the efforts of the illegitimate Maduro regime to undermine the independence and democratic order of Venezuela."
The Secretary of the Treasury of the United States,
Steven T. Mnuchin
, rejected in a press release that the Maduro regime tries to take control of the Parliament, chaired by the opposition leader Juan Guaidó, through a
"fraudulent election
.
"
A name that Chavismo does not share, determined to qualify the elections as the "most democratic elections in history."
In a ceremony marked by unity,
the revolution nominated the candidates who will compete on 6-D
, among them Cilia Flores, the first revolutionary combatant;
Diosdado Cabello, number two of the regime and who has overcome his contagion by coronavirus, and Vice President
Jorge Rodríguez
, Maduro's right hand in negotiations with the opposition.
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