Buenos Aires, June 13 (EFE).- The Legislature of the City of Buenos Aires, the legislative body of the Argentine capital, approved this Thursday a resolution that declares the president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, “persona non grata,” “for the serious violations of human rights against Venezuelan citizens in their country.”
The resolution, promoted by legislators Claudio Romero and Emmanuel Ferrario, from the conservative Republican Proposal (Pro), was processed “at the request of the Venezuelan diaspora in Argentina” and had the vote in favor of the majority of the members of the chamber. , according to a statement from the institution, made up of sixty deputies.
However, the Left Front legislators abstained and the Union por la Patria (Kirchnerist) legislators voted against.
“In the City of Buenos Aires we are not going to tolerate dictators, people who come to violate human rights, people who carry out atrocities in their country in the name of a revolution that does not exist, people who use torture as a method of government,” expressed legislator Romero.
Elisa Trotta, general secretary of the Argentine Forum for the Defense of Democracy (FADD, an organization created in 2020), celebrated the decision adopted by the Buenos Aires Legislature, considering that it represents a strong message of support to the more than 220,000 Venezuelans “who “They have had to escape their country and settle in Argentina.”
“Autocrats, like Maduro, must know that their crimes will not go unpunished and that the world is not their backyard to walk around with their hands stained with blood,” added Trotta, a Venezuelan-Argentine diplomat.
The resolution was approved 45 days before the presidential elections that will take place in the Caribbean country.
“Venezuelans are in the streets, accompanying the national liberation movement led by María Corina Machado and Edmundo González (anti-Chavista opponents),” added Trotta, who declared that “the world is watching and will not allow the will of the citizens to be stolen.” to be expressed at the polls on July 28″.
Six citizens opposed to the Government of Venezuela remain asylum since last March 26 in the residence of the Argentine Embassy in Caracas.
On May 30, the Argentine Minister of Foreign Affairs, Diana Mondino, demanded that Venezuela “immediately issue safe passages,” in compliance with the 1954 Caracas Convention on Diplomatic Asylum, so that this group can leave the country. EFE
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