The president Delcy Rodríguez announced on Friday ageneral mnesty in Venezuelaa few days before the completion and mes since he assumed power after the overthrow of Nicholas Maduro in a military raid States Joined.
Rodríguez was vice president of Maduro and inherited power after his capture in the early hours of January 3.
This Friday, the president participated in the opening of the judicial year at the headquarters of the supreme courtan event traditionally attended by president.
“We have decided to promote a general amnesty law covering the entire period of political violence from 1999 to the present“Rodríguez reported in his speech.
The law will be discussed Parliament Venezuelanwith an official majority.
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To whom will the new amnesty law apply in Venezuela?
Without detailing to whom the amnestythe chairwoman stated that “those prosecuted or convicted of homicide, drug trafficking, corruption and serious human rights violations” will be excluded..
Rodríguez He also announced the closure of the feared prison of Helicoidheadquarters of the intelligence service in Caracas. The opposition and human rights activists denounce it as a torture center.
He ordered it to be converted “into a social, sports, cultural and commercial center for the police family and the surrounding communities,” he indicated.
Venezuela adds little more than 700 political prisonersaccording to the ONG specialized Forum Penalmany detained in the own Helicoid.
And since January 8, some 300 prisoners as part of a process announced by Rodríguez which advanced slowly.
He also requested a “new justice system” in Venezuelawhere the current system, pointed out by NGOs and opponents, as being corrupt and servile to the chavismo.
Amnesty ‘responds to pressure’ from the US, according to María Corina Machado
The opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize, Maria Corina Machadosaid that the general amnesty process announced on Friday by the president of Venezuela “is not voluntary” and “responds to pressure” from States Joined.
“When repression disappears and fear is lost, it is the end of tyranny,” Machado said during a virtual participation at the Hay Festival in Cartagena, Colombia.
“It is not something voluntary that the regime has done, but rather it responds to pressure from the United States government, and I hope that the prisoners can soon be with their families,” he exclaimed.
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