The approved document, which is based on the persecution and crimes against humanity attributed to the Venezuelan ruler.
Chile’s Senate on Tuesday passed a resolution, pushed by conservative parties, calling on the country’s president, Gabriel Boric, to bring an arrest warrant to the International Criminal Court (ICC) against his Venezuelan counterpart, Nicolas Maduro, alleging “serious crimes that pose a threat to the peace, security and well-being of humanity.”
“It is not possible to ignore the suffering of thousands of victims due to persecutions of different kinds in Venezuela for years and especially because of the persecution suffered by thousands of victims after the presidential election event held on July 28 of this year, including particularly vulnerable groups such as girls and boys,” they consider.
The document adopted, which is based on the persecution and crimes against humanity attributed to the Venezuelan ruler, underlines the need for Chile, as a member state of the Rome Statute to fulfil its international obligations to prosecute crimes against humanity.
The initiative has been presented by Senators Felipe Kast, founder of Political Evolution (Evópoli), and Francisco Chahuán of the National Renovación party, and has been unanimously approved in the presence of legislators from the Christian Social Party, the Regionalist Green Social Federation and the Christian Democratic Party.
This article has been translated after first appearing in Diario El Mundo