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Nicolás Maduro

has provided himself with an iron shield in just 48 hours.

First, with his

re-election as head of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela

(PSUV), by acclamation, without debate and as a preliminary step to becoming an official candidate for the 2024 elections. And second, by forcing this Tuesday the appointment of a new Tribunal Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) to your measure,

granting at least 12 years of impunity

at the head of the Bolivarian regime.

"It is a new stage of renewal and promotion of the justice system for the well-being and peace of the people"

, the revolutionary leader has sentenced.

The Chavista generalate and international allies, with Russia and Cuba in the lead, further strengthen Hugo Chavez's successor.

The new TSJ, which goes from 32 to 20 magistrates, is not only as Bolivarian as the previous one, but also

violates constitutional regulations

.

Half of the 20 main judges repeat their terms, despite their strict prohibition, and, in addition, they add unconditional supporters such as Tania D'Amelio, a member of the National Electoral Council (CNE) for 14 years, always at the service of the revolution.

The current president,

Maykel Moreno

, remains, despite his dark past,

tainted with a murder conviction

during his time as a police officer.

And Gladys Gutiérrez

, president of the TSJ until 2017 and former ambassador to Spain, also repeats

a stage in which

she was linked to Podemos

, especially with its founder, Juan Carlos Monedero.

"The appointment of the new magistrates is devastating. The Prosecutor's Office before the International Criminal Court can already see that it will be the regime that will continue to make the decisions," criticized former magistrate Blanca Rosa Mármol, who was forced to retire from the high court in 2015 as a step prior to transforming the TSJ into the main hammer against the opposition and into

key factor for the

electoral fraud of Maduro's mandate

.

The penultimate example dates from last December, when his judges ordered the repetition of the regional elections in Barinas, cradle of the revolution, after learning of the victory of the opposition.

The appointment of the new TSJ by the National Assembly has had the support of collaborationist parties and the abstention of the Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV), the only real opposition in this Chavista body.

The regime has compensated the false opposition with two magistrates: José Luis Gutiérrez, brother of Bernabé Gutiérrez, to whom the TSJ himself gave the electoral card of the historic Democratic Action, and Luis Emilio Rondón, who had already served as a special guest in the NEC.

At the head of the Judicial Nominations Committee, on the "opposition" side, was Deputy

Timoteo Zambrano

, leader of Cambiemos and the

"man" of former head of the Spanish Government José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero

in Caracas.

Previous United Nations reports had insisted on the renewal of the judiciary as the main condition to advance in the investigation of crimes against humanity, and it has even been discussed at the negotiating table in Mexico, sponsored by Norway.

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