Former attorney general Luisa Ortega fled with her husband, congressman Germán Ferrer, to neighboring Colombia via Aruba on Friday:
Venezuela’s Former Attorney General Flees to Colombia.
Her flight comes after the constituent assembly, an entity created by Nicolás Maduro, seized legislative powers from Congress
Ms. Ortega was fired earlier this month by the constituent assembly, an all-powerful government entity created by President Maduro’s supporters through a vote widely condemned as fraudulent. The same 545-member assembly on Friday voted unanimously to take over legislative powers from the opposition-controlled congress in the latest sign of what critics say is the country’s fall into totalitarian rule.
Circling the drain some more,
#Maduro’s constitutional assembly takes over congress’ powers. A sad reality as #Venezuela becomes a dictatorship.https://t.co/ixMv29bjx4
— Prof. Steve Hanke (@steve_hanke) August 21, 2017
Meanwhile, Carlos Ponce, Freedom House‘s director for Latin America and the Caribbean, asserts that Venezuelan Bankers, Opposition Figures Have Stalled Sanctions against Maduro Regime.
Cross-posted at WoW! Magazine.
As Freedom House wrote the ones who have enriched themselves at the expense of the poor people should be sought out and be made accountable. I read Chavez’s daughter has a net worth of $4 billion..half in Andorra and halt of it in the US. She was still living in the Presidential house the last I read. These people are known as the Boliburguesia. Here is the Wikipedia about them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boliburgues%C3%ADa
Thank you OT