{"id":481989,"date":"2025-09-08T21:43:48","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T01:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/hipolito-mejia-and-several-former-presidents-denounce-threats-against-maria-corina-machado\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T21:43:48","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T01:43:48","slug":"hipolito-mejia-and-several-former-presidents-denounce-threats-against-maria-corina-machado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/international\/hipolito-mejia-and-several-former-presidents-denounce-threats-against-maria-corina-machado\/","title":{"rendered":"Hip\u00f3lito Mej\u00eda and several former presidents denounce threats against Mar\u00eda Corina Machado"},"content":{"rendered":"<strong>Miami (USA).- The Democratic Initiative of Spain and the Americas (IDEA Group)<\/strong>, made up of 30 former heads of State and Government, including the Dominican <strong>Hip\u00f3lito Mej\u00eda,<\/strong> denounced this Monday threats against the life and personal integrity of the Venezuelan opposition leader Mar\u00eda Corina Machado, made by the Government of Nicol\u00e1s Maduro.\n\nIn a statement, the former presidents warned that the official expressions constitute an apology for the crime and recalled that this type of threats have already led to violent acts against political leaders in the region.\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>You might be interested in:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/Maduro vuelve a decretar el inicio de la Navidad en Venezuela desde el 1 octubre\">http:\/\/Maduro vuelve a decretar el inicio de la Navidad en Venezuela desde el 1 octubre<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nThe signatories warned that the warnings against Machado are part of a pattern documented by the United Nations and the International Criminal Court regarding human rights violations in Venezuela.\n\nThe group asked the international community, in particular the Organization of American States (OAS) and the Governments of Colombia and Brazil, to guarantee the protection of the opposition leader.\n\n<strong>&#8220;This threat gains gravity, as it is also true that the appeal to the assassination of the most important political leaders is repetitive in the region, whose messages speak of the rescue of freedoms and the punishment of those who use politics to collude with forms of organized crime, particularly drug trafficking,&#8221;<\/strong> the statement indicates.\n\nIn that regard, he mentioned the assassinations of Colombian presidential candidate Miguel Uribe Turbay, Ecuadorian journalist and politician Fernando Villavicencio, and Venezuelan officer Ronald Ojeda, a political dissident who had taken refuge in Chile.\n\nThe statement was signed by former presidents <strong>Mauricio Macri of Argentina; Carlos Mesa and Jorge Tuto Quiroga of Bolivia; Eduardo Frei of Chile; Iv\u00e1n Duque, Andr\u00e9s Pastrana and \u00c1lvaro Uribe of Colombia; Carlos Alvarado, \u00d3scar Arias, Rafael \u00c1ngel Calder\u00f3n, Laura Chinchilla, Luis Guillermo Sol\u00eds and Miguel \u00c1ngel Rodr\u00edguez of Costa Rica; Osvaldo Hurtado, Jamil Mahuad, Len\u00edn Moreno and Guillermo Lasso of Ecuador, and Alfredo Cristiani of El Salvador.<\/strong>\n\nThey were also supported by Mariano Rajoy of Spain; Felipe Calder\u00f3n and Vicente Fox of Mexico; Nicol\u00e1s Ardito Barletta, Mireya Moscoso and Ernesto P\u00e9rez Balladares of Panama; Mario Abdo, Federico Franco and Juan Carlos Wasmosy of Paraguay; Hip\u00f3lito Mej\u00eda of the Dominican Republic, and Luis Alberto Lacalle and Julio Mar\u00eda Sanguinetti of Uruguay.&nbsp;","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miami (USA).- The Democratic Initiative of Spain and the Americas (IDEA Group), made up of 30 former heads of State and Government, including the Dominican Hip\u00f3lito Mej\u00eda, denounced this Monday threats against the life and personal integrity of the Venezuelan opposition leader Mar\u00eda Corina Machado, made by the Government of Nicol\u00e1s Maduro. 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