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Spanish lawyer Baltasar Garzón supported Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, whom he called the government "totally legitimate," and questioned countries that recognized the self-proclaimed President of the National Assembly, Juan Guaidó, as well as his colleagues. "diplomatic representatives". "Juan Guaidó's embbadies are out of place, it is not helpful for different countries to deepen this divide and not build bridges," said the former magistrate, who said that "the situation in Venezuela must be resolved between internal factors ", has the position of the United States and" American hawks like Macri ".

"Venezuela is one of today's major international conflicts, and mediation has attracted particular interest," Garzon said of the political crisis in the Caribbean country, which has been unleashed since Guaidó proclaimed himself " interim president "two weeks ago. . Shortly after, the parliamentarian was recognized by the United States and ten other Latin American countries, in which Guaidó was later named "diplomatic representatives" who act as parallel ambbadadors. However, for Garzón, these appointments are not legal. "International recognition does not give legal coverage to the election of state officials, because the institutionality of the government is absolutely legitimate," he said at a news conference. conversation with FM La Patriada.

The former magistrate also explained the situation in which Venezuela finds itself in the actions of certain countries "such as the United States", which "make statements that border on internal interference". "This case is absolutely new because it violates constitutional rules," said Garzon, who explained that "it is not enough to create dual institutions," but only "because opposition does not presume the result ".

The former judge accepted the position that the European Union, Mexico, Uruguay, Bolivia, Costa Rica and Ecuador explicitly stated that "the situation in Venezuela must to be resolved between internal factors ". "There is no need to generate tensions such as those generated by Donald Trump in his statements, as well as by other American hawks like Macri," Garzón questioned when referring to the Argentine president, who received the representative appointed by Guaidó a few minutes later. and was one of the first countries to align after Washington's recognition. For Garzón "in Venezuela, beyond the names, it was possible to break the internal rules of constitutionality".

Moreover, with regard to the role of the United States in the region, the judge who was able to deal with crimes against humanity in the context of universal justice said that "he there is a judicial strategy emanating from the United States and developing Latin America ". According to Garzón, "the judiciary should be a beacon at equal distances, but in recent years, some justice officials have turned to one side and covered their eyes so as not to see each other". "Those who have the judiciary have only to manage it, they are officials, not protagonists," said the former judge.

"This is not a good example of using judicial bodies to search for political references," Garzón explained, referring to cases such as Cristina Fernández or Lula Da Silva. In this type of case, for the Spaniards, "the image that is given to the outside is a sectarian persecution". "There is an excessively corporate sector of justice," he said, stressing that "a strong democracy must have irreproachable justice and not be allowed to be exploited." To be able to destroy this behavior, the judicial referent maintains that he must "denounce and make sure that these dynamics are generated not involving arbitrariness".

Finally, in a brief comment, he mentioned the cause of the fraudsters and compared it to the one involving Mariano Rajoy in Spain, which is why he had to resign. Garzón explained that "with regard to the" difficult contributors ", it took a long time to punish the financing of political parties".