Nicolás Maduro: Difference between revisions

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Maduro's thugs have committed extrajudicial killings and torture, have taken political prisoners and severely restricted freedom of expression, all in a brutal effort to retain power.

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In 2015, opposition parties in favor of democracy flatly defeated the Maduro regime in the legislative elections. Shortly after, Maduro began dismantling several branches of government. The outgoing President of the National Assembly, Diosdado Cabello, hastened to fill the country's courts with unskilled fans of the party to serve as guarantors of Maduro's power.

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===Constitutional crisis===

On January 11, 2016, when the National Assembly proceeded to place three legitimately elected deputies, the Supreme Court declared the National Assembly in contempt, voiding all subsequent legislation passed by this democratically elected body. Since then, Maduro has deliberately marginalized this constitutionally legitimate Assembly.

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On January 10, 2019, Maduro illegally assumed the presidency in an illegitimate ceremony by many Venezuelans and more than 50 countries, including most of Venezuela's neighbors and the majority of the European Union.

In this context, Juan Guaidó, elected on January 5, 2019, as President of the National Assembly, the only legitimate and democratically elected institution remaining in the country, invoked relevant articles of the Venezuelan constitution and will be seen as Interim President of Venezuela .

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===Corruption===

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Maduro's most serious corruption plan consisted of the embezzlement of the state oil company Petróleos de Venezuela (PdVSA). In 2015, the Financial Crime Control Network (FinCEN) of the US Department of the Treasury issued a ruling under Section 311 of the US PATRIOT Act. (USA PATRIOT Act). A European bank accepted exorbitant commissions to process approximately US $ 2 billion in transactions related to third-party money launderers, fictitious companies and complex financial products to divert funds from PDVSA.

In 2018, a US $ 1.2 billion money laundering plan that involved Matthias Krull, a German citizen and a Panamanian resident, and Gustavo Adolfo Hernández, a Colombian citizen and a naturalized US citizen, exploited PdVSA and took advantage of corruption in the systems of Foreign currency exchange of Venezuela by exchanging US dollars for Venezuelan bolivars at market prices and then investing the exchange.

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 Maduro's thugs have committed extrajudicial killings and torture, have taken political prisoners and severely restricted freedom of expression, all in a brutal effort to retain power.
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 In 2015, opposition parties in favor of democracy flatly defeated the Maduro regime in the legislative elections. Shortly after, Maduro began dismantling several branches of government. The outgoing President of the National Assembly, Diosdado Cabello, hastened to fill the country's courts with unskilled fans of the party to serve as guarantors of Maduro's power.
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 ===Constitutional crisis===
 On January 11, 2016, when the National Assembly proceeded to place three legitimately elected deputies, the Supreme Court declared the National Assembly in contempt, voiding all subsequent legislation passed by this democratically elected body. Since then, Maduro has deliberately marginalized this constitutionally legitimate Assembly.
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 On January 10, 2019, Maduro illegally assumed the presidency in an illegitimate ceremony by many Venezuelans and more than 50 countries, including most of Venezuela's neighbors and the majority of the European Union.
 In this context, Juan Guaidó, elected on January 5, 2019, as President of the National Assembly, the only legitimate and democratically elected institution remaining in the country, invoked relevant articles of the Venezuelan constitution and will be seen as Interim President of Venezuela .
+[[File:Protester with riot shield Venezuela 2014.jpg|thumb|347x347px]]
 ===Corruption===
-[[File:A.jpg|thumb|347x347px]]
 Maduro's most serious corruption plan consisted of the embezzlement of the state oil company Petróleos de Venezuela (PdVSA). In 2015, the Financial Crime Control Network (FinCEN) of the US Department of the Treasury issued a ruling under Section 311 of the US PATRIOT Act. (USA PATRIOT Act). A European bank accepted exorbitant commissions to process approximately US $ 2 billion in transactions related to third-party money launderers, fictitious companies and complex financial products to divert funds from PDVSA.
 In 2018, a US $ 1.2 billion money laundering plan that involved Matthias Krull, a German citizen and a Panamanian resident, and Gustavo Adolfo Hernández, a Colombian citizen and a naturalized US citizen, exploited PdVSA and took advantage of corruption in the systems of Foreign currency exchange of Venezuela by exchanging US dollars for Venezuelan bolivars at market prices and then investing the exchange.