Military Counterintelligence assaults the homes of the president and vice president of the National Assembly, exiled in Spain

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Agents of the General Directorate of Military Counterintelligence (Dgcim) have today assaulted the homes of the top staff of the legitimate National Assembly (AN).

The Chavista operation was carried out against the Caracas house, in the Los Rosales neighborhood, of

, the new president of the AN, who has been in exile in Valencia for years.

The repressive forces of

also raided the home of another exile,

, second vice president of the AN, who moved days ago from Madrid to a town in Toledo.

"It is a strategy of State terrorism. From the first moment we were threatened by Nicolás Maduro and by the illegitimate attorney general, who activated an international red alert while they confiscated our assets. Today the search of our homes in Venezuela has been made effective. From systematically, the dictatorship intimidates us. They are not going to take us away from our path to recover democracy, we remain firm. We are proven, stoic and indeclinable and we continue to accompany the people," Figuera told EL MUNDO.

The harassment against the two exiled deputies in Spain also occurs a few hours after Maduro received the credentials of the Spanish ambassador,

, after an "impasse" of two years.

Chavismo wants Spain to extradite Figuera and Vásquez, something it has also tried, without success, against the former political prisoner

.

The revolutionary onslaught also coincides with the imminent visit to Caracas of

's replacement at the head of the United Nations Human Rights office.

has spent two days in Colombia before embarking on the most uncomfortable visit of his tour: 273 political prisoners remain in Maduro's dungeons while the International Criminal Court has accused the "people's president" and the most powerful Chavista generals of crimes against humanity, ranging from torture to extrajudicial executions, as well as rape, arbitrary arrests and forced disappearances.

"The High Commissioner will arrive in Venezuela in the midst of repressed protests, threats to outlaw NGOs, and detained journalists," said political scientist

.

The journalists harassed in the last few hours belong to the staff of 'El Nacional', whose editor-president,

, is also in exile in Spain.

Revolutionary police arrested today the newspaper's editor-in-chief,

, and are looking for four other journalists.

All of them have participated in various investigations published in 'El Nacional', which resists online despite the fact that a judge handed over its facilities last year to

, number two of the revolution.

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