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• Venezuela The prosecutor of the TPI opens a historic investigation against Chavismo

The launch of the formal investigation for crimes against humanity before the International Criminal Court (ICC), once the preliminary examination has been completed, represents one of the

for Chavismo in its almost 23 years of hegemony in Venezuela. The big question now is whether at the end of the investigations, which will continue for years, Nicolás Maduro will be imputed before the Court of The Hague, as were the Serbian

the Libyan Muammar Gaddafi and other African dictators and murderers.

The Office of the Prosecutor will now begin to independently gather the evidence that civil organizations, human rights activists, relatives of the victims, journalists and even anonymous police and military have contributed during these years with the "son of Chávez" at the head of the country, especially since the social and political outbreak of 2017.

of the crimes. "The authorities have the obligation to cooperate after Maduro signs a cooperation agreement, but it remains to be seen if that will is really fulfilled," weighs the internationalist Mariano de Alba.

In fact, the prosecutor Karim Khan has been forced to intervene due to the systematic violation of human rights and considering that the authorities "have not been willing or are incapable of investigating alleged perpetrators.

The investigation phase does not have a defined term and will probably be extensive, "adds De Alba, who also considers that the Maduro government can delay six more months if so requested and the court agrees.

Meanwhile, the mountain of evidence to show that in Venezuela there have been systematic violations of human rights continues to grow, as collected and updated by both the United Nations Mission of Facts, Michelle Bachelet's office and even the predecessor of Khan, who for years did not dare to advance as the British prosecutor has done.

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who knew or should have known what was happening and did not intervene," said José Miguel Vivanco, director for the Americas of Human Rights Watch (HRW).

Another big question is how far Maduro is willing to go to cover his back.

The political scientist Georg Eickhoff is clear:

mean turning over the military who committed the crimes ordered by him. Before, these military will turn over him."

The "people president" has managed to stay at the top of the revolutionary power thanks to the support of the generalate, one of the most benefited by the system of economic corruption set up by the Bolivarians.

"There must be a lot of fear in some," predicts the former prosecutor Zair Mundaray, dismissed by Maduro and today in exile.

Marino Alvarado, an activist with the NGO Provea, has expanded the questions that Maduro must face if he wants to evade the world bench of the accused to the heads of the political police, the military counterintelligence, Defense and the magistrates of the Supreme Court.

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