The American who created the private military firm Blackwater is the face of this campaign that invites Vote with dollars against the president
▲ Tarek William Saab, Venezuela’s attorney general, spoke yesterday at a press conference about the request to Interpol to arrest Argentine President Javier Milei.Photo Xinhua
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The newspaper La Jornada
Wednesday, September 25, 2024, p. 26
Caracas. Venezuela has opened a criminal investigation into an online fundraising campaign to boost the fall of the government of President Nicolás Maduro, announced yesterday the attorney general, Tarek William Saab.
The campaign began with a countdown on the Ya Casi Venezuela platform, which appeared a few weeks ago amid allegations of fraud in Maduro’s re-election on July 28. When the countdown reached zero, a fundraiser was launched with a visible face: Erik Prince.
This is a former Navy SEAL American who founded the private military firm Blackwater, renamed Academi after being involved in the massacre of 17 civilians in Baghdad in 2007 and being absorbed by the current Constellis.
Prince said that in the first 72 hours of fundraising, the figure of one million dollars was surpassed, with 10 million as the goal: Venezuela, you voted for freedom on July 28. Now it’s time to vote with dollars.
No political leader assumed the creation of the site webwhich offers Venezuelans to be witnesses and protagonists of the fall Maduro, without specifying what initiatives he plans.
In front of the countdown clocks, we have to polish the rifles, and we have polished themwas Maduro’s response.
We are not unarmedreacted the Minister of Defense, General Vladimir Padrino. They will receive a forceful response, on the front line, from the Armed Forces.
Meanwhile, in Spain, former socialist president José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero (2004-2011), who was an electoral observer in the Venezuelan elections, acknowledged that he participated in the departure from the country of opposition candidate Edmundo González, who has been in asylum in Spain for two weeks.
Upon arrival at the Ateneo de Madrid, for the presentation of his book Democracy and its rightsthe politician was heckled by Venezuelans who shouted at him: traitor and son of a bitchbecause they accuse him of defend to the Maduro government.
Rodríguez Zapatero said that he intervened in those negotiations with the approval of the siblings Jorge and Delcy Rodríguez, president of the National Assembly of Venezuela and vice president of the government, respectively.
When someone mediates, they must be extremely respectful. My way of helping is to give hope to Venezuelans through consensus and dialogue. I will not give up that position and I will do so discreetly.declared the former president, reported Armando G. Tejeda, correspondent of The Day in Madrid.
On the other hand, the Venezuelan government yesterday condemned the decision of an Argentine court ordering the international arrest of President Nicolás Maduro, and the Minister of the Interior, Justice and Peace, Diosdado Cabello, and described the measure as crude retaliatory reaction.
The ruling issued Monday night by Argentina’s Federal Criminal and Correctional Court ordered the arrest of Maduro and Cabello, holding them responsible for a plan to kidnap and torture citizens in Venezuela.
