The Venezuelan government denounced a destabilization plan organized by the Argentine Embassy

One month before the presidential elections in Venezuela, the national coordinator of the command official campaign, Jorge Rodriguez, denounced that there is a destabilization plan organized from the Argentine Embassy in Caracas. The entire campaign team of the main opposition leader, Corina Machado, is staying there.

“We warn the Argentine Embassy in Venezuela about whether it will respect the principles established for the right of asylum and non-interference in the political affairs of the country where they are represented”Jorge Rodríguez, who is also president of the National Assembly, stated during a press conference.

According to the complaint Rodriguezin the Argentine embassy the opponents Magalli Meda and Humberto Villalobos,cMachado’s collaboratorsare planning “criminal acts” ahead of the presidential elections on July 28. “They are going to create disorder and vandalism with motorcyclistswhom they call legionaries,” he said.

During the press conference, Rodríguez showed some evidence which will be presented to international observers who will monitor the presidential elections where the current president and official candidate, Nicolás Maduro, and the leader of the opposition Vente Venezuela, Corina Machado, are the main candidates.

“We will present it to international election observers when they come. We are going to show you the evidence of what they are doing from the Embassy of the Argentine Republic in Venezuela,” Rodríguez assured.

Diana Mondino admitted that Argentina hosts opponents

The chancellor Diana Mondino On Thursday, the Argentine Embassy in Caracas admitted that it houses the campaign headquarters of opposition candidate Corina Machado. He did so during his participation in the 55th General Assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS).

“Our country opened the doors of its official residence in Caracas to house the entire campaign team of the main opposition leader, María Corina Machado, persecuted by the regime on the eve of the elections,” Mondino admitted in the OAS Assembly. He justified this based on the complaints of persecution against opponents. “There should be no half measures. It must be reported and acted upon”he claimed.

“Our country has repeatedly requested the Venezuelan government to grant the corresponding safe-conduct passes. “as established by the 1954 Caracas Convention on political asylum to allow all asylum seekers to leave the country safely,” said Mondino. “We have not yet had a favorable response,” he said.

What does the Caracas Convention on Diplomatic Asylum say?

The Asylum Convention that Mondino mentioned agrees with the position of Buenos Aires, but also with that of Caracas. Venezuela is obliged to grant safe-conduct passes to those allegedly persecuted, but they should not participate in internal politics.

The Convention grants any State the right to grant political asylum to anyone it considers to be politically persecuted and, in turn, it is the asylum State, in this case Argentina, that must determine whether there are sufficient reasons to grant said asylum. .

Likewise, Article 8 states that “Once asylum has been granted, The asylum-granting State may request the departure of the asylum-seeker to foreign territory, and the territorial State is obliged to immediately give“In this case, Venezuela should accede to the requests of the Argentine government.

However, Argentina is also clearly violating the Convention. Article 18 states that “The asylum official will not allow the asylum seekers to practice acts contrary to public tranquility, nor to intervene in internal politics. of the territorial State”. It is difficult to justify that the operation of an electoral campaign command is not an intervention in internal politics.