Maduro prepares to violate – once again – the Constitution: he will try to stop Guaidó on his return to Venezuela

Police and military force still reluctantly respond to the dictator. The Legal authority, henchman Nicolás Maduro, remains also genuflexa network of impunity that governs the dramatic destinies of Venezuela. The interim president will have to deal with these mechanisms Juan Guaidó when your plane lands on Caracas in the coming hours, after visiting countries that recognize their investiture.

Guaidó he knows it: he could be arrested once Venezuela. "If I go back to Venezuela and I'm imprisoned, there will be a popular uprising", Predicts this Saturday in an exclusive interview with Infobae. "Democracy will come to Venezuela, even though I am not in the street. It's already a political process that neither Maduro nor anyone else can stop", the first president in charge is optimistic.

The dictatorship has already moved the first pieces of his painting. 20 days ago he opened an investigation against Guaidó hand in hand with one of its key resources to persecute political leaders of the opposition. The Controller of Venezuela opened a criminal investigation against the chief of police National Assembly for alleged inadequate financing of their movements.

"Presumably, he has received money from national and international bodies without any justification"said the head of this organization, the chavista Elvis Amoroso, who is in charge of arming the case against the opponent.

The Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela is clear on the conditions that must be given to arrest a member of the L & # 39; badembly National. Guaidó it's in his character "President administrator"And if the dictatorship of Maduro I would like to follow all the procedures according to the rules, it would be impossible for me to stop president of the parliamentary body.

But nothing escapes the dictator's long and brutal arm. That is why, despite the immunity granted by the Venezuelan Constitution, Guaidó is under the certainty of being arrested.

Guaidó is a deputy mandated by the Assembly and the Magna Carta gives its legislators the power not to be imprisoned. In the L & # 39; Article 200 expressly states that "enjoy immunity in the exercise of their functions from proclamation to the end of their term of office"and establishes that you can only stop them on Supreme Court of Justice with the approval of Parliament, which politically could not happen in this case since the Leader of the Opposition has the support of the majority of the body.

Article 200 provides: "Members of Parliament or deputies to the National Assembly shall enjoy immunity in the exercise of their functions from proclamation to the end of their term of office or until their resignation. Among the crimes allegedly committed by the members of the National Assembly, the Supreme Court of Justice will know, in private, the only authority entitled to order, with the authorization of the National Assembly, their detention and to continue their prosecution."

However, in the second part of this constitutional point, the possibility is decided that a legislator be arrested, but for "offense blatant", a figure that leaves enough freedom of judgment for Maduro to fix that Guaidó go behind bars on arrival at Venezuela.

"In the case of flagrant offenses committed by one or more members of parliament, the competent authority shall detain him in his home and immediately inform the Supreme Court of Justice. Civil servants or public officials who violate the immunity of members of the National Assembly will incur their responsibility and will be punished or punished in accordance with the law.", says the same article.

Will you use Maduro early denunciation of "international financing" as an ideal pretext for stopping Guaidó? This is likely. Otherwise, you will find another maneuver that justifies it. The disciple of Hugo Chávez He knows that he enjoys the invaluable help of 32 judges. They are the ones who make up the Court Supreme of Justice and that they respond unconditionally to the dictator.

It is expected that in the next hours the senior commanders do the same thing, put aside the fears of persecution and participate in the democratic transition. Some will do it for Republican principles, others for shame, most for fear of a future behind bars.

The same thing could happen in the Court Supreme of Justice. Judges who have always declared themselves Bolivarian are seriously considering leaving the ranks and not allowing other violations. Constitution of Venezuela. The stumbling block, however, is not minor: 32 magistrates are part of the TSJ, shield of protection before the law of Maduro.

The fear surrounding the heads of generals and colonels, as well as the judges and secretaries of justice – and their families – is the same: what will be their fate once the tyrant collapses? The story is relentless in the face of this answer: the prison. Like the one waiting Maduro, who no longer has the opportunity to maneuver to aspire to a Parisian exile or paradise. A cell in Caracas is what is looming on the horizon of the dictator.