Legislative Assembly of the City of Buenos Aires, the legislative body of the capital. Argentinaapproved this Thursday a resolution declaring the President of Venezuela “persona non grata.” Nicolas Maduro“for serious human rights violations against Venezuelan citizens in their country.”

The resolution proposed by lawmakers Claudio Romero and Emmanuel Ferrario of the conservative Republican Proposition was processed “at the request of the Venezuelan diaspora in Argentina” and The majority of the chamber members voted for him.According to the statement of the institution, it included sixty deputies.

However, Left Front legislators they abstained and the legislators of the Union for the Motherland (Kirchnerists) voted against it.

“In the city of Buenos Aires we will not tolerate dictatorspeople who come to violate human rights, people who commit atrocities in their country in the name of a revolution that does not exist, people who use torture as a method of government,” said legislator Romero.

Elisa Trotta, Secretary General of the Argentine Forum for the Defense of Democracy (FADD, an organization created in 2020), welcomed the decision taken by the Legislative Assembly of Buenos Aires, considering that represents a strong message of support more than 220 thousand Venezuelans “who had to leave their country and settle in Argentina.”

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“Autocrats like Maduro need to know that their crimes will not go unpunished and that the world is not your backyard where you can walk around with bloody hands,” added Trotta, the Venezuelan-Argentine diplomat.

The resolution was approved 45 days before the presidential elections that will be held in the Caribbean country.

“Venezuelans took to the streets, support of the national liberation movement led by Maria Corina Machado and Edmundo Gonzalez (anti-Chavista opponents),” added Trotta, who said that “the world is watching and will not allow the will of the citizens, expressed in the elections of July 28, to be stolen.”

Six citizens opposed to the Venezuelan government have maintained asylum since March 26 last year in residence of the Argentine Embassy in Caracas.

On May 30, Argentine Foreign Minister Diana Mondino demanded that Venezuela “immediate issuance of a safe conduct letter”, in accordance with the 1954 Caracas Convention on Diplomatic Asylum, so that the group could leave the country. (EFE)