• Venezuela Imminent arrival in Caracas of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, whose arrest Putin has ordered

Karim Kham, prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), began yesterday in Venezuela one of his most picturesque and at the same time demanding visits. The Bolivarian revolution maintained an almost sepulchral silence throughout the day, knowing that it had to turn a deaf ear to the arrest warrant issued from Russia last month against the prosecutor Khan. The Kremlin is today the main international ally of Nicolás Maduro, a key factor not only in propping up the "son of Chávez" in Caracas, but also in circumventing US sanctions.

Relations with Maduro are also going through their worst moment, since Chavismo launched in April a campaign to discredit the prosecutor Khan after he assured that the revolution undertook a "systematic attack against the civilian population".

The investigation into crimes against humanity (extra-summary executions, torture, arbitrary detentions, enforced disappearances and sexual violence against detainees) at the Hague Tribunal is at a turning point, as once all the briefs have been received, the next step will be to decide on the prosecutor's requestto close the investigation. If this happens, the process will be on the threshold of the trial phase.

Khan's serious gesture during his first meeting with the Chavista attorney general, Tarek William Saab, summed up the first surprise of the day: hours before Chavismo had presented, with revolutionary fanfare, what will be the Police Detention Center of Caracas, baptized with the name of Nelson Mandela.

A surprising denomination for a prison in a country where the Venezuelan Observatory of Prisons recorded 184 deaths in 2021 with malnutrition and tuberculosis as the main triggers for a total of 628 in five years. The situation is so critical in the prisons of the revolution that for five months the prisoners of the police cells in Puerto La Cruz defecate in plastic bags.

"We exchanged opinions in relation to the achievements in the protection of human rights in Venezuela and the implementation of the memorandum of understanding between the Venezuelan State and the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court," Saab summarized in his social networks. Hours later the meeting was, under the same parameters, with Vice President Delcy Rodriguez.

"Many regime supporters applauded the Russian court's arrest warrant against Khan. The prosecutor even went to the headquarters of the repression, the Venezuelan Public Ministry, and? Nothing!" said former prosecutor Zair Mundaray, now in exile.

Official meetings and minimal comments so far for a Khan received through the back door, which did not even attract the interest of the huge Bolivarian propaganda apparatus. Who did give him a very special "welcome" was Diosdado Cabello. The number two of the revolution surrounded himself with the Chavista generalate to accuse Khan of being "paid" by the United States.


  • Venezuela
  • Russia
  • Nicolas Maduro
  • Vladimir Putin

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