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The film escape starring Leopoldo López, despite the narrow marking of the Chavista political police, has claimed its

first victim within the

revolutionary

government

.

Nicolás Maduro announced on Sunday the replacement of General

Néstor Reverol

as head of the Ministry of Internal Relations, Justice and Peace, only 32 hours after the escape of the opposition leader since his confinement in the Embassy of Spain.

Reverol is one of the heavyweights of the revolution, he is even singled out along with the "son of Chávez" by the United Nations Mission for crimes against humanity.

The general of the Bolivarian National Guard (GNB)

takes over as head of the Ministry of Electricity, in the midst of a terrifying crisis in public services

, which has thrown thousands of Venezuelans onto the highways to flee on foot to Colombia.

According to Maduro, Reverol is an expert on electrical issues, a virtue hitherto unknown.

At the head of the Interior portfolio is Admiral

Carmen Meléndez

, who already held the position in 2014 and who until now served as governor of the state of Lara.

He is

a person of the highest confidence in the presidential marriage

, both in political and financial terms.

Chavismo received as if it were a painful torpedo the

escape of its most emblematic political prisoner

, a rival whom it has always feared.

A getaway that has also further strained the always volcanic relations between the governments of Caracas and Madrid, with the crossing of accusations and statements.

While the Maduro government directly accused of complicity in the flight to Madrid and especially Ambassador Jesús Silva,

Foreign Affairs openly criticized the arrests and persecution of Embassy personnel

.

At the moment the six guards of the diplomatic legation arrested on Saturday were released in the last hours, while López's cook, Nubia Campos, and the two bodyguards close to the family remained under arrest, according to Deputy

Delsa Solórzano

, vice president of the Commission of Justice and Peace.

"A criminal investigation must be opened and some people who worked at the Spanish Embassy were interviewed. They said interesting things about the intimate relationship of the ambassador with Leopoldo López and those things will come out,"

Jorge Rodríguez

, former minister and hand Maduro's left on the arrests made.

"Innocent, hard-working and honest Venezuelans. You have to be very miserable to keep them kidnapped and their families in distress. No one is exempt from the persecution of the dictatorship, that is why we must face it together and united," reacted Juan Guaidó, president in charge recognized by Spain and the rest of western democracies.

The Bolivarian Intelligence Service (SEBIN) was not satisfied with the arrests and also

harassed four Spanish national police officers who work at the Embassy

and live in a nearby building.

Chavista agents took the parking lot and the entire property, entering each of the apartments during an operation that took place on Sunday.

The statements of different leaders of the revolution ("López is a coward and a liar, his wife said that he would not leave Venezuela," added the brother of Vice President Delcy Rodríguez) reflect to what extent

the escape of the coordinator of Popular Will has annoyed Chavismo

.

Not only because of who he is, the "monster of Green Branch", as they came to call him in another propaganda exercise.

Also because

the odyssey to escape from the Bolivarian clutches broke the media story of the weekend

, which promised them happy: victory of the yes in the Chilean plebiscite, the holding of a simulation for the 6-D elections and the presentation of the "miraculous" remedy found by Venezuelan scientists to fight covid-19.

"The debate abroad is oxygenated with the arrival of López in Spain, but it must be a seasoning for the main dish: the internal political struggle, which today looks weak in the face of the lack of hope for change in three-quarters of the Venezuelan population ", summarized the political analyst

Luis Vicente León

.

Freddy Guevara, a very close collaborator of López,

has denied that his political boss is going to head a kind of government in exile

, an idea cherished in the opposition as a response to the persecution of Chavismo.

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