Antonio Ledezma asked Juan Guaidó to promote "humanitarian intervention" of foreign troops in Venezuela

Part of the Venezuelan opposition joined on Monday to ask the acting president appointed by the National Assembly, Juan Guaidó, to invoke Article 187 of the National Constitution when his meeting with members of the Lima group to request a humanitarian intervention.

The former mayor of Caracas and opposition leader Antonio Ledezma asked Guaidó to invoke a humanitarian intervention in Venezuela based on the doctrine of the responsibility to protect (R2P).

"President Guaidó, you must mention today at Grupo de Lima and the international community, Venezuela must be saved from the clutches of the mafias who carry out the extermination ", Ledezma noted on his Twitter account.

"It is time to invoke humanitarian intervention and G2P approval at the UN.It is time to activate the art 187CNBV"added the opposition leader who was arrested by the Bolivarian police and then managed to escape into exile.

On Saturday, the Venezuelan opposition tried to bring humanitarian aid to the country affected by a drop in GDP of nearly 40%, poverty of 80%, inflation of nearly 2,000 000%, uncontrolled violence and a shortage of food and medicine.

But the security forces of the Chavez regime repressed demonstrators, set fire to trucks and prevented the entry of humanitarian aid into clashes They left at least five dead and nearly 300 wounded.

"How many pemons have yet to be killed?How many students still have to shed their blood in Venezuela? How many children must die from malnutrition? How many men and women from all sectors should sacrifice their lives? President Guaidó, act. He has our support, "Ledezma concluded.

On the other hand, from the Twitter account of the the political movement Sale Venezuela, led by the deputy Maria Corina Machado, that Chavismo prevents to leave the country, the National Assembly has also been called to claim the principle of the responsibility to protect, with the hashtag # Articulo187Ya.

"The regime of Nicolás Maduro seeks to destroy Venezuelan citizens to defend their mafias. The National Assembly must exercise its responsibility to demand the principle of the responsibility to protect", says the tweet of the group's main account.

"The Maduro Criminal State not only poses a threat to Venezuela, but what happened on February 23 a clear sign that it is also a threat to the continent and the world, it does not bother them to attack anyone or forge a silent genocide", says the US Sales account.

"We will be traveling next Monday with President Juan Guaidó to the Lima group meeting to present firm positions that imply an escalation of diplomatic, political, and use of force against the regime to block humanitarian aid and generate violence without gifts at the border "Borges said in a statement.

This Monday, meanwhile, Borges said to the BluRadio Colombia What "There is a lot of talk about Venezuela's military intervention, but it must be understood that Venezuela is already an intervened country, it is the Cubans who make the decisions", referring to the thousands of soldiers from Havana, one of the main allies of Chavismo, deployed on Venezuelan territory.

The legal basis of the humanitarian intervention

They thus referred to Article 187 of the Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, whose paragraph 11 states that it corresponds to the National Assembly. "authorize the use of Venezuelan military missions abroad or abroad in the country".

It is precisely the Venezuelan parliament, controlled by the opposition since the 2015 elections, it was he who proclaimed acting president to Juan Guaidó in order to organize the transition of power and to request free elections and it is, according to its defenders, the last source of political legitimacy in Venezuela.

That's because President Chavez Nicolás Maduro He was reelected last year at the end of elections that were strongly questioned by the community because of the repression and persecution of opponents, the scarcity of guarantees and the low turnout. . Previously, he had virtually disabled the legitimate parliament by declaring it contemptuously and forming a constituent badembly in parallel.

Opponents also invoke the the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) doctrine, a commitment adopted by the UN in 2005 (Articles 138 and 139 of the World Summit Outcome) in response to the systematic violation of human rights.

Specifically establishesthe responsibility of States to protect their populations against genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanityand also underlines the collective responsibility to "take decisive and timely action" through the Security Council. in case of failure of the national authorities of a country on this point.

This commitment is limited to the collective use of "diplomatic, humanitarian and other appropriate peaceful means", being the use of Security Council force and as a last resort.

These are the "humanitarian interventions", based on an interpretation of Article VII of the United Nations Magna Carta, which establishes exceptions to the principle of non-intervention and sovereignty of States in cases of "threat to peace, violation of the peace or act of aggression", before the intervention of the Security Council, which can constitute a multinational force of peacekeepers or delegate the action in a state agency or security.

Some of the latest interventions in history and under the protection of the UN have occurred at Somalia (1991), the former Yugoslavia (1992) and Rwanda (1994).

The actions of the Security Council, however, are limited by the need to be approved by the vote of its 15 members, five of whom have the right of veto (the United States, China, France, the United Kingdom and Russia , winners of the Second World War). Precisely, disagreements between Washington and Moscow on the need for different humanitarian interventions They have blocked many processes in the past.