Highlights: Venezuela: the opposition contests the judicial decision making their representative ineligible. The election, scheduled for 2024 by the Barbados agreement signed by the Maduro regime and the opposition, is now compromised. The opposition platform will contact the sponsors of the agreement signed on October 17. Worried, the United States says it is considering reinstating sanctions against the Maduro government. The United States, which eased the embargo on Venezuela's raw materials in exchange for credible elections in 2024, is considering new sanctions.

Venezuela: the opposition contests the judicial decision making their representative ineligible

In Venezuela, the opposition united within the “Unity Platform” is contesting the decision of the Supreme Court to exclude their representative from the presidential election, Maria Corina Machado. The election, scheduled for 2024 by the Barbados agreement signed by the Maduro regime and the opposition, is now compromised. The opposition platform will contact the sponsors of the agreement signed on October 17. Worried, the United States says it is considering reinstating sanctions against the Maduro government.

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Gerardo Blyde of the Unitary Negotiation Platform delegation speaks at a press conference the day after the Supreme Court ratified the disqualification of opposition presidential candidate María Corina Machado, in Caracas, Venezuela, on Saturday January 27, 2024. AP - Jesus Vargas

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The Barbados agreement provides that all candidates must be allowed to participate provided they comply with the law. For the government negotiator, this disqualifies opponents like Maria Corina Machado declared ineligible by the courts for administrative irregularities and treason, after having supported American sanctions against Nicolas Maduro.

For Hector Rodríguez, member of the government delegation, “

everyone must assume their responsibilities. Calling for a coup, calling for a military uprising, calling for a blockade, calling for sanctions, calling for assassination is a crime in Venezuela and all over the world. And whoever promotes it must necessarily assume the consequences.

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Gathered on Saturday January 27, the day after the Supreme Court's decision, the "Unity Platform" denounces a unilateral decision, rendered by a justice considered to be on the orders of the regime, which violates the Barbados agreement, according to Gerardo Blyde, the leader of the opposition delegation.

“

We are preparing and finalizing the written denunciation that will be submitted to the Norwegian facilitator of all these violations, and we will also submit it to the countries that are supporting the process. We denounce the partial violation of the Barbados Agreement. I think it is obvious that the conditions we found ourselves in at the time of the agreement have disintegrated

,” says Gerardo Blyde.

The United States, which eased the embargo on Venezuela's raw materials in exchange for credible elections in 2024, is considering new sanctions after the political disqualification of Maria Corina Machado.

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Venezuela: the opposition contests the judicial decision making their representative ineligible

Venezuela: the opposition contests the judicial decision making their representative ineligible

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