“Let them pay for the electricity, we are not going to give them anything”: Cabello denies siege against the Argentine Embassy
The Minister of the Interior of Venezuela, Diosdado Cabello, denied this Monday that authorities besieged the Argentine Embassy in Caracas, after the government by Javier Milei denounce “harassment” against the diplomatic headquarters.
Six collaborators of the opposition leader María Corina Machado have been taking refuge in the embassy since March, including her campaign manager, Magalli Meda.
«Javier Milei is the fascist who governs Argentina. “I don’t know what he calls someone being harassed in his embassy, I don’t know, I really don’t know what he accuses us of now,” Cabello said at the weekly press conference of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV).
Siege against the embassy
On Saturday, the Argentine Foreign Ministry denounced “acts of harassment and intimidation” against its embassy and demanded that Venezuela issue “the necessary safe conduct” so that the opposition taking refuge in the diplomatic headquarters can leave the country.
“The deployment of armed troops, the closure of streets around our embassy and other maneuvers constitute a disturbance of security,” the Argentine Foreign Ministry said in a statement, which has also reported power cuts.
“Let them pay for the electricity, let them pay for the services, we are not going to give them anything,” Minister Cabello ironically said.
The official stated that “impunity is over in Venezuela” in reference to Machado, whom he described as a “terrorist” and who is in hiding after denouncing fraud in the re-election of Nicolás Maduro on July 28.
The opposition maintains that Edmundo González Urrutia, exiled in Spain after an arrest warrant against him, won the elections.
“Impunity is over for the terrorist María Corina, for the terrorists who accompany her, for those who are generating violence, for those who ask for sanctions (from the United States against Venezuela),” Cabello said.
Brazil announced in August that it was assuming custody of Argentina’s diplomatic delegation with permission from Caracas, which revoked its decision a month later.
The government of Luiz Inácio Lula de Silva, which has refused to recognize Maduro as the winner of the presidential election, later said it would continue to defend Argentina’s interests.
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