Venezuela. A narco-state, a mafia or criminal regime, which has also plundered the country. There are too many denunciations hanging over the leadership that since 1998 governs the country. And Maduro, who took office in 2013, is at the center of many plots.
Several cases that tarnish him more. That they guarantee a visit to the prison. And, fortunately, they are already discussed. And they are there, in view of everyone; so that no one has the shame of denying them.
These are the cases that, once democracy is restored, will achieve the condemnation of the Venezuelan dictator. Of those who can not flee.
Odebrecht:
Nicolás Maduro received bribes from the controversial Brazilian construction company, Odebrecht. The one who has focused the most on getting this act of corruption to become the sword that ends Maduro, is the legitimate Venezuelan prosecutor, Luisa Ortega Díaz.
According to Ortega Díaz, Maduro received USD $ 35 million in exchange for contracts in the country. In February of this year, the prosecutor introduced a request for preliminary examination of merit before the Supreme Court of Justice in exile, against the dictator. At that time, Ortega Díaz assured that Nicolás Maduro had committed the crimes of "corruption and delegitimization of capital."
"From the investigation it was found that in 2012 the campaign of President Hugo Chávez was paid by Odebrecht and that the person who received the money was Nicolás Maduro, at that time the chancellor of Venezuela," he told a news conference from Colombia.
Likewise, in February of this year the newspaper El Nuevo Herald revealed that, although Nicolás Maduro received USD $ 35 million during 2013, the then presidential candidate had requested USD $ 50 million for his campaign, in exchange for favors.
"Ortega, who left the country with many of the documents supporting corruption cases against Chavismo, said that the information provided by the investigations in Brazil shows that Odebrecht paid tens of millions of dollars in bribes to continue being in charge of the monumental works that he obtained under the governments of the late President Hugo Chávez and Maduro, "reads El Nuevo Herald.
Due to its relationship with the Brazilian construction controversy, which has contaminated several governments in the region, the prosecutor and the magistrates in exile are pushing a lawsuit against Nicolás Maduro. Already, as a result of this process, they have requested that Maduro be separated from the position and, consequently, arrested.
On the other hand, in March of this year El Nuevo Herald also published a note in which it reveals that "Nicolás Maduro would have ordered extraordinary payments of up to USD $ 4,000 million for Odebrecht in 2013 in response to contributions from the Brazilian construction company to its electoral campaign" .
Money laundering of PDVSA:
It was the last plot that was uncovered. Last week, a US federal prosecutor's office in Miami accused a group of Venezuelans and foreigners of allegedly laundering illicit money from PDVSA in South Florida.
It would be a corruption and money laundering network, which was linked to PDVSA and favored the exchange rate regime that prevails in Venezuela. On the day that the information was disseminated, the most relevant name was that of Francisco Convit Guruceaga, a Venezuelan businessman, a shareholder in the controversial construction company Derwick Associates.
However, two days later, sources close to the case revealed to the Miami Herald that, in fact, Nicolás Maduro was at the center of the investigation.
The dictator's stepsons "received USD $ 200 million in dirty money and the Venezuelan tycoon, Raúl Gorrín received another USD $ 78 million," according to the sources.
"Maduro is the individual identified as 'Venezuelan Official 2' in the indictment filed Wednesday in the Federal Court of Miami, which outlines a conspiracy to launder USD $ 1.2 billion embezzled to the coffers of the state oil company Petróleos de Venezuela," reads El New Herald
It is a case that directly involves the Venezuelan dictator with a punishable act in the United States. It would be the embezzlement of the state oil company PDVSA, the Venezuelan company that represents the main income to the country.
«Narcosobrinos» and presidential hangar:
In November 2015 the nephews of Cilia Flores, wife of Nicolás Maduro, were arrested in Haiti. Efraín Campo Flores and Francisco Flores de Freitas transported 800 kilos of cocaine and intended to enter the cargo to the United States.
The process lasted several months. In the end, the sentence was given in December of 2017 in New York. Both were found guilty and sentenced to 18 months in prison and a fine of USD $ 50 thousand.
However, the relevant thing is that the entire presidential family is muddy. Even, the hierarch, Nicolás Maduro. According to the newspaper El Comercio, quoting El Nacional, in November 2016, "the 'narco-brigands' of the first lady of Venezuela used the presidential hangar at the Maiquetía international airport in Caracas to take drug shipments to the United States. United, with a stopover in Central American countries. "
Violations of Human Rights:
Perhaps the most sensitive cases are those related to human rights violations. And these are countless. Of all, Nicolás Maduro is the main responsible.
During 2014, the repression of demonstrations in Venezuela led to the death of 43 individuals. Then, in 2017, another enthusiastic wave of protests left 157 dead. In both, the violence, on the part of the State, was excessive. When adding the cost of both processes, the figures are disturbing: more than fifteen thousand injured, more than six thousand detainees and incalculable cases of torture, harassment and abuse of authority.
(An important report presented by experts at the Organization of American States, which brings Nicolás Maduro closer to the International Criminal Court, serves as an extensive test of the violations, beatings and electric shocks suffered by political dissidents in Venezuela)
Cases such as the execution of Óscar Pérez and his group of rebels, or the existence of a torture center at the seat of the SEBIN political police, serve as an example of the criminal and barbarous nature of the Nicolás Maduro regime.
They are testimonies, evidence and accusations that come together to never leave the dictator in peace. To become eternal persecutors of him, to ensure that his nights are spent behind bars.
The images of the murdered and the tortured, plus the gross acts of corruption, are some of the realities that will ensure that the future of Nicolás Maduro is in the dungeons.