They order to capture Leopoldo López | The Leader of the Opposition …

The Venezuelan Supreme Court of Justice ordered the arrest of Leopoldo López yesterday. The opposition leader takes refuge at the Spanish embbady after escaping his house arrest Tuesday. However, the Spanish government warned that he was not willing to hand it over.

"The court, in its decision, issued an arrest warrant against citizen Leopoldo López, the Bolivian National Intelligence Service (Sebin)," said a statement from the TSJ. The sentence required the leader to be detained at the Ramo Verde military prison in the suburbs of Caracas, where he served most of his sentence of almost 14 years in prison for the crime of incitement to murder. violence during demonstrations against President Nicolás Maduro. 43 deaths in 2014. The decision of the court of Caracas guarantees that López, emblematic figure of the opposition, has flagrantly violated the measure of house arrest that he had received in August 2017 as well as the ban on making political statements.

The opponent said Tuesday he was released by soldiers who had organized a brief uprising against Maduro, led by self-proclaimed interim president Juan Guaidó. A few hours later, Lopez fled to the Spanish embbady in Caracas with part of his family, while 25 insurgents sought asylum in Brazil.

Despite the arrest warrant, the Spanish government said in a statement that it did not intend to issue it, while indicating that the arrest warrant issued by the TSJ was an expected judicial move. "Spain hopes that the Venezuelan authorities will respect the inviolability of the residence of the ambbadador of Spain", adds the official note. Earlier, the Spanish Chancellor, Joseph Borrell, had stated that Lopez was in the residence of Spain 's ambbadador to the Caribbean country as a guest and that it was not the only place in Spain. was not isolated. "According to Spanish law, asylum applications must be lodged in Spanish territory.Mr. López is not therefore an asylum, he is simply invited by the Embbady until he that it clarifies the steps to follow "Borrell said in Amman (Jordan), where he goes.

That same yesterday clarified the same Lopez. "I am in the state of guest and in this state, I will maintain myself," said the opposition to journalists in front of the Embbady. In addition to thanking the Spanish government for receiving it, López reaffirmed his support for Guaidó in his project to overthrow Maduro: "We will not rest until we have put an end to it." 39; spoofing ". He also stated that he had no plans to return to prison: "I do not want to go back to prison, it's a hell, but I have not not afraid either, nor of Maduro ".

Lilian Tintori, wife of Lopez and also a guest at the embbady, ​​said yesterday that her house, located in an affluent area of ​​Caracas, had been raided. Police action took place Tuesday night, according to Tintori. "It was the Sebin, the Sebin of the wicked because there are sebine patriots who want the freedom of Venezuela," said Lopez's wife. "They entered our home as criminals, without a search warrant and without our presence, they destroyed the house and stole our belongings," he added in a publication published on the social network Twitter.