Delcy Rodríguez denounces plan by people in the U.S. to “disrupt” amnesty in Venezuela

Caracas.- The acting president of Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, said on Monday that some sectors are making an “incorrect” reading of what is happening in the country with the amnesty law and denounced alleged plans by people in the United States and Europe to “disturb” the process.

“Some sectors are misinterpreting the amnesty law and the coexistence program. They already have plans and in due course I will show them to the country so that it is known who, from a luxurious hotel in the United States or Europe, intend to derail this process,” he said in a meeting with “victims of political violence” at the Miraflores Presidential Palace in Caracas.

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The president did not directly point to anyone, but opposition leaders María Corina Machado and Edmundo González are in the United States and Europe, respectively. He insisted that the supposed sectors seek to “disturb” the “tranquility” in Venezuela and are measuring the process from a “partisan political defeat”. “And there I say: no repetition. And there I call for a genuine and true justice because enough is enough, enough is enough. This process (…) must be taken care of,” he continued. He also indicated that all those who want to return to the country in the midst of this “healing process of hatred” are welcome. Delcy Rodríguez was sworn in as acting president on January 5 before Parliament, which is led by her brother Jorge Rodríguez, two days after the United States captured President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, in an operation in Caracas. The president has spoken of a “new political moment” after Maduro’s capture, ordering the review of cases of detainees for political reasons and promoting an amnesty law that was approved last Thursday. According to the president of the parliamentary commission for the fulfillment of the Amnesty, the Chavista Jorge Arreaza, a total of 2,021 people with precautionary measures and 177 prisoners have benefited from the law. Between January 8 and February 22, the NGO Foro Penal had verified 464 releases in the South American country; and at least 65 releases since the amnesty was approved last Thursday. This NGO differentiates full releases from parole, since in the latter the beneficiaries are released from prison, but with parole and precautionary measures, such as the prohibition of leaving the country or a regime of periodic presentation before courts. According to Foro Penal records, at least 400 political prisoners could be excluded from the amnesty, while the NGO counts more than 600 detainees for these reasons who remain incarcerated, while the Government denies that there are people detained in Venezuela for political reasons and assures that they committed crimes.