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Josep Borrell continues with his Venezuelan plan, after yesterday receiving "strong support" from the International Contact Group (GIC).

The high representative of the European Union (EU) has transferred this Thursday to the foreign ministers that he

will continue working "for a negotiated solution for Venezuela"

, just a few hours after the devastating report of the United Nations Mission, which points directly to Nicolás Maduro as responsible for crimes against humanity.

"Only important changes in the conditions and the calendar could allow the deployment of an electoral observation mission of the European Union (EU)," concluded Borrell, a way to pressure Caracas to delay the elections scheduled for 6-D .

The former Spanish Foreign Minister supported the opposition leader Henrique Capriles during the secret negotiations with the "son of Chávez", which led to the release of 50 political prisoners and the pardon of 60 leaders and politically persecuted.

Capriles also demands that Maduro delay the elections to March

to continue his support for the La Fuerza del Cambio list, presented on the sidelines of the opposition majority created around Juan Guaidó.

The interim president, with the support of 37 opposition parties and the democratic Parliament who are committed to abstention, has launched several messages to Borrell in the last hours.

Among them a phrase that fluttered during Borrell's telematic appearance: "If we reduce our demands, we benefit the repressor."

The Contact Group is made up of the Europeans Spain, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Portugal, Sweden and the Netherlands and the Americans Bolivia, Costa Rica, Ecuador and Panama, these four members in turn of

the Lima Group

, an anti-Chavista alliance that has fought hard against the Bolivarian regime.

Previously, the Foreign Minister,

Arancha González Laya

, has valued this Thursday the devastating United Nations report as "worrying", because "it shows a series of human rights violations after the democratic order in Venezuela was broken."

However, she has advanced that Borrell had achieved "a series of advances", but that "the end has not been reached".

For the European People's Party "free elections are impossible under a regime that violates human rights."

The report of the United Nations Mission has exposed the revolutionary policy to violate human rights and pointed to its main instigators: Nicolás Maduro and his two favorite generals, Vladimir Padrino López and Néstor Reverol.

Extrajudicial executions, torture, rape, arbitrary detentions, disappearances and violent repression against protests make up the catalog of Chavista horror.

Chain reactions

A "milestone", as Amnesty International summed up, which sparked chain reactions from various political actors.

Germany, for example, was much more conclusive than the Spanish minister: "Maduro must hand over power to the legitimate interim president," according to Jürgen Hardt, parliamentary foreign policy spokesman:

"A criminal against humanity," Iván Duque directly accused his arch-enemy Maduro.

"The UN report is lapidary, Venezuela is an outright dictatorship," accused the Chilean Foreign Minister, Andrés Allamand.

For Brazil, the Bolivarian regime has neither the conditions nor the legitimacy to conduct clean elections.

The Government of Brasilia made an international call to work together for the

"extinction" of the Maduro regime

.

After the first stammering responses from Caracas, they opted for the same script as in previous complaints: attacking those who wrote it and disqualifying it based on their "lack of methodological rigor."

Once the Foreign Minister, Jorge Arreaza, responded, the different speakers of Chavismo in Spain and in the world began a damage control campaign.

In parallel, the Chavista prosecutor, Tarek William Saab, announced the launch of

an investigation against Juan Guaidó

, for the theft of financial assets of the Venezuelan state.

About the atrocious torture, the hundreds and hundreds of executions and other atrocities, nothing at all.

The democratic Parliament yesterday exhorted the International Criminal Court (ICC) to act against those responsible for crimes against humanity "systematically committed by the dictatorship to destroy the democratic alternative."

The UN Mission recommends in its conclusions that its member states act against those who directed the violations, pointing to Maduro and his two favorite generals.

Luisa Ortega, the legitimate prosecutor in exile today in Bogotá, points out that

the shadow of the Pinochet case now looms over the "son of Chávez

.

"

In 1998, Baltasar Garzón, then a judge of the National High Court, ordered the arrest of the Chilean dictator, who had traveled to London to undergo an operation.

USA: "Venezuelans have the same right as Europeans"

The United States did not hesitate to

put pressure on European countries

hours before the Contact Group meeting.

"Sometimes I hear from Europe the phrase asking for minimum conditions, but of course Europe wants all the conditions for its own elections. Venezuelans have the same right," shot Elliot Abrams, Washington's special envoy for Venezuela.

The Donald Trump Administration welcomed on Wednesday with enthusiasm and even surprise the forcefulness of the United Nations report, traditionally very diplomatic with the revolutionary horrors.

The US government in turn reiterated its support for Guaidó and Parliament.

Yesterday he went one step further, urging the world and the United Nations to "come together to end these atrocities," according to Michael G. Kozak, undersecretary of state for Western Hemisphere Affairs.

"The report is horrifying, citing the crimes against humanity of an illegitimate government. The US stands with those who fight for democracy," the official said.

The opposition leader also had the

support of the Democratic Party

weeks before the momentous elections in the US.

"The bipartisan support for the Venezuelan cause is firm, the rejection of fraud and the support for the transition and free elections," summed up the legitimate president of the National Assembly (AN).

The candidate Joe Biden, the favorite according to the polls, wanted to clear up any doubts about his position and repeated that "I am committed to the restoration of democracy in Venezuela. I will lead international efforts to press for free and fair elections."

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D. LOZANO

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