Washington warns Nicolas Maduro against arresting opposition leaders

Arrest opposition leader Maria Corina Machado or opposition presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia “would be a step that could mobilize the international community even more, including countries that do not want to make too many waves” against Venezuela, said Francisco Mora, the United States ambassador to the Organization of American States, on Thursday, August 8.

“If Nicolas Maduro does this, it will unite the international community in a way he has no idea of ​​and his efforts to divide and fracture it will have completely failed.”he added before the Atlantic Council, a Washington-based think tank. The two leaders risk arrest, especially since the prosecutor opened an investigation against them for, among other things, “incitement to insurrection.” The United States believes that the opposition has won, but has not yet taken measures against the government of Nicolas Maduro and is leaving, according to Francisco Mora, Brazil, Colombia and Mexico to lead diplomatic efforts “to find a way forward”.