Argentina's Security Minister Patricia Bulllich on Thursday accused a leftist former diplomat with ties to Venezuela's socialist Maduro regime of holding talks with Venezuelan socialists over Argentine military police arrested in Caracas. A formal complaint has been filed against Oscar Laborde.
Bullrich criticized Laborde, who served as ambassador to Caracas under the former socialist president's government. wife beating Alberto Fernández weakens the Argentine state by negotiating with the Maduro regime for the release of Nahuel Gallo, an Argentine military police officer who was arrested by the Maduro regime on charges of “espionage” and without proper authorization from the national government. He was arrested on suspicion of treason. He was then charged with “terrorism.''
Garo, who? reportedly traveled He traveled to Venezuela to visit his wife and young child, but was arrested and formally detained by Venezuelan security authorities in early December. Paid and “terrorism” the Maduro government announced on Friday. According to Venezuelan Attorney General Tarek William Saab, Gallo was arrested on suspicion of “attempting to illegally enter the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, concealing a true criminal plan under the guise of a sentimental visit.”
serve further claimed Gallo allegedly attempted to carry out “acts of destabilization and terrorism” with the help of what he described as “international far-right groups.”
The Argentine government has denied Gallo's suspicions of involvement in a “terrorist” plot and accused the Maduro government of abducting military police by presenting copies of stamped invitations and other documents. certified document The Argentine government claims it can prove that Gallo traveled to Venezuela for the express purpose of visiting family.
Several stores in Argentina reported A formal complaint filed by Argentina's Ministry of Security on Thursday said Laborde “arrogantly asserted his only available diplomatic authority against the country's interests in order to maintain the legitimacy of the enforced disappearances of Argentine citizens.” ' has been criticized. By a representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Argentina. ”
complaint reportedly read:
Rather than contributing to resolving the situation, Mr. Laborde's actions justified baseless accusations against the Venezuelan regime and undermined national interests. These actions not only demonstrate disloyalty to the Argentine state, but also attempt to justify acts of enforced disappearance, contradicting the principles of justice and human rights that our government upholds.
Complaints too reportedly detail Laborde said he contacted the family of an Argentine military police officer to “deliver a letter” to Gallo about the Maduro government's alleged “cooperation.”
Former Ambassador Óscar Alberto Laborde acted with the clear intention of exposing political arguments that undermined the role of the Argentine state in an incident of unusual institutional significance in the international cooperation of countries, and was accused of betraying the interests of The Argentine government protects a military police officer who is accused of enforced disappearance.
Bullrich addressed the charges against the left-wing former ambassador in a post on social media, stressing that Laborde is accused of “betrayal of the motherland.”
“We accuse former Argentine Ambassador to Venezuela Oscar Laborde of treason. Corporal Nahuel Gallo is still missing in Venezuela, but this man knelt before Maduro, lied and sided with the dictatorship. “There you are,” the message says.
“Under the government of President Javier Millay, traitors will not pass. Truth and justice will confront them! And history will judge those who were on the darkest side of history,” the message continues.
Prior to Thursday's formal filing of charges, Mr. Bullrich criticized Mr. Laborde's actions in an interview Monday night, saying: accused A leftist diplomat with ties to the Maduro regime. Bullrich said it was “shameful” that Laborde had previously represented Argentina as an ambassador.
Mr. Bullrich and Gerardo Vertein, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Argentina, reportedly meet Friday with Nahuel Gallo's family.
Argentina and Venezuela have not had diplomatic relations since late July, following the inauguration of socialist dictator Nicolas Maduro. suddenly cut Relations with Argentina and several other countries questioning the dictator's fraudulent July 28 presidential election, which Maduro claims he “won.”
Since then marchthe Argentine embassy in Caracas sheltered a group of six Venezuelan dissidents wanted by the ruling socialists. At the time of writing, five of the six dissidents remain inside the Argentine embassy. The dissidents are condemned Venezuelan law enforcement authorities are “surrounding” the embassy, which has no electricity or running water and whose security is under constant surveillance.
The building is now under Brazilian diplomatic control, and Brazil took charge of the embassy, which was closed in accordance with its terms. Establishment by 1954 Caracas Convention on Diplomatic Asylum.
