Maduro threatened to imprison the deputies "ask" for help | Chronic

The President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, affirmed that the return of the country to the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance (TIAR), approved by the parliament of the majority of the opposition, is "unconstitutional and illegal", and threatened to imprison the deputies who punished him.

"There is the crane of (the director of the Bolivian National Intelligence Service, Sebin, Gustavo) González López, the crane goes in search of criminals who claim that Venezuela invades "Maduro said.

The president spoke of how the first vice-president of the National Assembly (AN, Parliament) was captured last May. Edgar Zambrano, when a Sebin crane raised the car in which the legislature had taken refuge and took her to the headquarters of the intelligence agency.

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Zambrano disappeared a few weeks and then appeared at Fort Tiuna, the largest army headquarters in Caracas. Last week, after more than two months in jail and 12 days before starting a hunger strike, he was cleared. Visit of your closest relatives.

Last night, in an act with soldiers at Fort Tiuna, Maduro said that Venezuela's return to the TIAR provided by the AN was "an absolutely unconstitutional and illegal act", The Caracas El Universal newspaper and the ANSA and EFE news agencies reported.

"Any intention to apply the TIAR to Venezuela must be considered, in accordance with the Constitution, as an act hostile to national sovereignty and aggression against the territory, the people, peace and international law", the chavist president warned.

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"So all those who intend to invoke the TIAR in Venezuela will be considered a hostile act, and that's how it will be treated"Maduro insisted.

The return of Venezuela to TIAR – which was withdrawn in 2012 by decision of President Hugo Chávez – was approved by the AN on Tuesday and declared null by the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ, controlled by Chavismo) on Friday.

The TIAR, created in 1947 and signed by only 24 of the 35 member countries of the Organization of American States (OAS) – of which Venezuela and five others later retired – forces their signatories to respond to the case where one of them they suffer from aggression.

The president of the AN and acting president of the republic appointed by the parliament, Juan Guaidó, denounced Tuesday that at least 57 deputies are "victims of prosecution "Among them are prisoners, exiles, refugees in foreign embbadies, and others with withdrawn privileges.

The normalization of the AN, which involves the cessation of the persecution of opposition lawmakers and the return of the chavist minority, is one of six points on the agenda of the dialogue between the two sectors in Barbados under the auspices of the Norwegian Government. , in order to find a way out of the Venezuelan institutional crisis.