Since the presidential election of July 28, the opposition leader, reduced to hiding, has been the target of an investigation, while a new proposed law raises fears of a future hardening of repression.
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Venezuelan power remains at an impasse. The presidential candidate called on the country’s president, Nicolas Maduro, to “to put oneself aside”in a message posted Tuesday August 20 on social networks while saying “ready for dialogue“. “Clinging to power only exacerbates the suffering of our people. Our time has come.” implored Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia, whose supporters have been demanding victory since the presidential election of July 28.
The latter lives in hiding, targeted by an investigation opened in particular for “incitement to disobedience of the law, incitement to insurrection, criminal association”. A few hours before the video of Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia, the attorney general Tarek William Saab had again threatened to indict him.
On the same day, the Venezuelan Parliament is considering a bill called “against fascism” but considered liberticidal by human rights defenders. Nicolas Maduro assures that he must defend himself against an attempt “coup d’état”. Since theSince the announcement of Nicolas Maduro’s re-election for a third term, at least 25 people have died, 192 have been injured and 2,400 arrested. This law includes, according to the president in power since 2013, “the best of European laws relating to the phenomenon of Nazism and fascism” to adapt it “to Venezuela”. “We are in a phase of offensive and expansion of our forces”he said again. After adopting a law on NGOs, he promised another one soon, this time to attack social networks.
