After the Venezuelan Public Ministry announced that it will request an arrest warrant against the President of Argentina, Javier Milei, the Minister of the Interior of Venezuela, Diosdado Cabello, made a threat to the Argentine head of state during a live broadcast of the television program he has had for about a decade.
“Come here to Venezuela, Milei, for a walk. To see if it’s true that you’re crazy,” Cabello teased, last Wednesday (18), when reading news about Argentina’s repudiation of the announcement of the arrest warrant for the delivery to the United States of an aircraft from Emtrasur, a Venezuelan cargo airline.
Cabello also dedicated minutes of his program to criticizing Milei’s fiscal adjustment policy and police repression during protests for an increase in pensions in Argentina. Despite several reports of repression and deaths during the post-election protests in Venezuela, the minister stated that such episodes do not happen in his country.
Asked about the threat to the Argentine president, the spokesman for the Casa Rosada said he did not care. “It is part of the shoddy show of a decaying dictatorship that has greatly harmed the Venezuelan people,” said Manuel Adorni on Friday (20), also disdaining the Maduro government’s intention to arrest Argentine officials.
Last Wednesday, the Venezuelan Public Prosecutor’s Office announced that it will request the arrest of Milei, the Argentine president’s sister and secretary general, Karina Milei, and the Argentine Minister of Security, Patricia Bullrich, for the confiscation and delivery of the Venezuelan plane.
The state-owned Boeing 747 had been held at Ezeiza Airport in greater Buenos Aires for about two years at the request of the United States. Following a decision by the Argentine Federal Court, the aircraft was sent to Florida in February of this year and was eventually destroyed.
The Americans claimed that the 747 previously belonged to Mahan Air, an airline targeted by sanctions for its alleged links to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard’s Quds Force, which the US Department of Justice describes as a “terrorist organization.”
At the time, Venezuela accused Argentina and the United States of promoting a “blatant theft” of the aircraft. In response, it banned Argentine aircraft from flying over its airspace.
In a statement, the Argentine Foreign Ministry said it repudiated the arrest warrants and that the plane was handed over following a court ruling. “The Argentine government reminds the Venezuelan regime that in Argentina the separation of powers and the independence of judges prevail, something that unfortunately does not happen in Venezuela under the regime of Nicolás Maduro,” the statement said.
Argentina’s Foreign Minister Diana Mondino called the arrest warrant “cowardly” and expressed “absolute support” for Milei, the president’s sister and his security minister. “Maduro has once again demonstrated that he is a tyrant and that we are on the right side of history. We are not afraid,” she wrote.
The announcement by the Venezuelan Public Prosecutor’s Office comes a week after Argentina requested Maduro’s arrest at the International Criminal Court (ICC) “due to the commission of new acts that may be considered crimes against humanity.”
This content was originally published in Maduro’s Minister Threatens Milei: “Come to Venezuela, to see if you are really crazy” on the CNN Brasil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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