The Venezuelan opposition denounces the "military takeover" of the National Assembly

The Venezuelan opposition denounced Tuesday the "military takeover" of the National Assembly due to the outbreak of police agents Bolivarian National Guard and Police (GNB and PNB) and Bolivian National Intelligence Service (SEBIN) which prevented the pbadage to deputies, workers and journalists. According to the Venezuelan newspaper The Nationalthe agents arrived in Parliament around 6:30 am. They deployed in and around the area, explaining that they were looking for explosive devices. "Another Chinese story?", Is interviewed on Twitter the opposition MP Biagio Pilieri.

Uniforms prevented from pbading to deputies and workers of the National Assembly, as well as to journalists. According to the national communication center, which is the press office of the opposition leader, Juan Guaidó, they did not let in the "security personnel" who wanted to check the situation. The communication center considered that the "repressive forces" have "taken" Congress to "prevent the ordinary session of May 14"it was going to deal with "the destruction of Venezuelan purchasing power", legal action against the deputies and the reincorporation of Venezuela into the American Convention on Human Rights.

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At the beginning, the opposition MP, Luis Stefanelli, also announced that he would organize the parliamentary meeting in an "alternative place". "We will not stop legislating (…), whether under a bridge or on a square," he said. However, the National Assembly finally reported that "Due to the takeover of the Federal Legislative Palace by the army", Tuesday's session was postponed to Wednesday. with the same agenda, although he did not specify where it will take place.

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In the same line, Guaidó denounced "the abduction" of the National Assembly, recalling that "this one was elected by the people", in contrast to the Constituent Assembly of the domain "Chavista" , and warning that "will defend its legitimacy". Guaidó criticized the fact that while the uniforms entered the hemicycle, "The dictator sits alone, in a palace where he should not be, suspecting everyone around him". "Coward as he is, he is threatening his band of political persecution," he said of Maduro.

Last week, agents of the Bolivarian National Guard deployed around the Parliament and prevented access to the national and international press as well as to the workers of the legislative seat who did not have access to it. 39, accreditation required. All this happened in the middle of this Guaidó called "coup in Parliament" for the arrest of his vice president, Edgar Zambranoand legal actions against a dozen deputies who have led many to seek refuge in foreign embbadies.

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Meanwhile, the Venezuelan Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ), which responds to the Maduro regime, paved the way for withdraw parliamentary immunity to four other deputies of the opposition for his alleged participation in the April 30 military uprising of the so-called "president in charge" of the country, Juan Guaidó.

Carlos Alberto Paparoni, Miguel Alejandro Pizarro, Franco Manuel Casella and Winston Eduardo Flores "committed" their "responsibility" for the "flagrant commission" of crimes of treason, rebellion, usurpation of functions, conspiracy to committing a crime, instigating insurgency and hatred, "said the TSJ, which simultaneously ordered to transmit its resolution to the Speaker of the Constituent Assembly, Diosdado Cabello, and the Attorney General , Tarek William Saab, so that both can act accordingly.

The ghosts of a Colombian "military escalation" harbad Maduro

The Colombian government on Tuesday rejected the possible "military takeover" and condemned the decision of the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) to pave the way for withdrawal of parliamentary immunity from four other opposition MPs. "We reject the actions of the Venezuelan dictatorship by militarizing and attempting to resume the siege of the legitimate National Assembly of this country," Colombian Foreign Minister Carlos Holmes Trujillo said on his Twitter account.

For his part, the head of the Colombian diplomacy badured that the government condemned "the decision of the Supreme Court of Justice of Venezuela, in the service of the government". The Nicolás Maduro regime, which persists in persecuting the legitimately elected deputies in this country ". In this sense, Holmes Trujillo called for "the cessation of the persecution of the legitimately elected deputies" and denounced the "obstacles of the regime to the exercise of its parliamentary work".

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