Venezuela’s Attorney General told Agence France-Presse (AFP) on Thursday (20 November) that Nobel Peace Prize winner and opposition leader Maria Corina Machado would be considered. “fugitive” if he leaves the country to receive his reward. mI Machado, who says he is hiding in Venezuela, has declared his intention to travel to Oslo, Norway, to receive the Nobel Prize on December 10.
“By being outside Venezuela and being the target of multiple criminal investigations, he would be considered a fugitive”said Attorney General Tarek William Saab, while stating that MI Machado was accused by the country’s courts“acts of conspiracy, incitement to hatred and terrorism”. He also clarified this “more than 100 mercenaries”from “more than 30 nationalities” different and “CIA related”prosecuted by Venezuela’s public prosecutor.
Rising tensions around the recognition of the 2024 election
Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yvan Gil announced in late October that Caracas had dismantled a “criminal cell” associated with the CIA, which allegedly attempted to attack American ships USS Very anchored in Trinidad and Tobago with the aim of incriminating Venezuela.
Washington has mobilized a fleet including the world’s largest aircraft carrier in the Caribbean and Pacific, officially to combat drug trafficking, a deployment that Nicolas Maduro sees as an operation aimed at combating drug trafficking. “imposing regime change” in Caracas.
Donald Trump said on Monday that he would speak “at some point” to his Venezuelan counterpart, who said he was ready to make the exchange “face to face” with the American president.
Maria Corina Machado, 58, Venezuela’s opposition leader, claims that Nicolas Maduro stole the July 2024 elections that gave him a third six-year term. The United States and much of the international community also failed to recognize these results.
During a video conference interview with AFP in mid-October, MI Machado said he had confidence in President Maduro “will go(he) power with or without negotiation ».
