Chavismo takes Parliament by force and blocks more opposition

CARACAS.- The police and the armed forces took the Federal Legislative Building, seat of the Parliament, at dawn to prevent the access of deputies, who were to sit under the presidency of

Juan Guaidó

. "The National Guard (GNB) is preventing us from entering in order to get together properly, excuse? You are looking for a supposed bomb," objected Juan Pablo Guanipa protested.

Agents from the Bolivian Intelligence Service (Sebin) entered the palace on the pretext of searching for and deactivating a bomb inside, the same trick used in January. In the Federal Palace, the Democratic Parliament is not the only one to sit, so does the National Constituent Assembly (NCA), a revolutionary body that has forcibly taken part of the building. A GNB unit provides 24-hour surveillance in the building. Already last week, prevented access to journalists by order of the palace of Miraflores.

At this point, MEPs appreciate the opportunity to conclude the Parliament session in the adjacent administrative offices. "We will complete the session today, the Venezuelan people must know that here we are his deputies," said MP Elimar Diaz.

"We denounce to the world that the dictatorship has removed the legislative palace," said José Guerra, MP and Minister of the Parallel Economy.

"The abuses and outrages committed by a regime that violated human rights have deeply affected us today, despite the siege and the inability to enter the Legislative Building, we let's continue to conform and resist, "said MP María Beatriz Martínez.

"They are trying to kidnap the legislature while the dictator is locked up alone in a palace where he should not be, suspecting everyone around him," responded Guaidó via his social networks. The Speaker of the Democratic Parliament added that the AN, "who was elected by the people and will defend its legitimacy".

On the agenda, the debate on
the "disappearance" of Edgar Zambrano, first vice president of the National Assembly, as well as the flow of arrests, persecutions and searches carried out in recent days. Zambrano, leader of Accion Democratica (AD), has been detained for a week without his family (who demands a life test in the face of rumors of complications of his health) or his lawyers do not know where he is.

During his appearance before the judge, without the presence of his defenders, he was accused of treason, civil rebellion, conspiracy, instigation to the insurrection, persistent hatred and others. crimes.

Hunting and capture against 112 opposition MPs has increased over the past week, including a campaign of persecution and harbadment that has affected some 20 parliamentarians.

To date, three deputies are imprisoned, eleven are still in exile, five are in hiding, four are refugees in embbadies, two with precautionary measures and three who have been deprived of their seat by the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ). . In addition, they all experienced revolutionary apartheid: threats, no pay, part with canceled pbadports and with obstacles to access state services, even to buy plane tickets in companies intervened by the state.