The Supreme Court of Venezuela orders to capture Leopoldo López
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05/02/2019
Leopoldo López affirms that what happened on April 30 was not a coup d'état and assures that there will be more military uprisings. The Spanish Government, for its part, announces that it will not deliver Lopez.
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The opposition leader Leopoldo López before the house of the Spanish ambassador in Caracas.
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The Supreme Court of Justice of Venezuela has issued a search and seizure order against the opposition leader Leopoldo López, who was released on April 30 by rebel soldiers and who is now with his family as a "guest" in the Embassy of Spain in Caracas.
"The Fifth Court of Execution of First Instance of the Criminal Judicial District of the Metropolitan Area of Caracas revoked the measure of home detention of citizen Leopoldo López for flagrantly violating it, in addition to violating the measure referring to the condition relative to political pronouncements by conventional means and unconventional, national and international, demonstrating with it the non-subjection to the measures ", explains the TSJ in a statement.
The court thus issues an "arrest warrant directed to the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service (SEBIN) against citizen Leopoldo López" so that "he continues to serve his sentence of 13 years in prison." The note recalls that Lopez has already served five years, two months and twelve days of punishment.
The communiqué highlights that it is "a public, notorious and communicative violation by Leopoldo López of the measure of house arrest, appearing and declaring in mass media" after his release.
Lopez is the leader of the Po[CENSORED]r Will opposition party and was on Tuesday with the "president in charge" of Venezuela, Juan Guaidó, and several soldiers revolted in what the government of President Nicolás Maduro denounces as an attempted coup.
After finding after several hours that the coup was not going to result in a change of government, Lopez took refuge in the Embassy of Chile and later moved to Spain.
Spain has granted the nationality to Lopez's parents and other relatives and welcomes other opposition leaders, such as former Caracas mayor Antonio Ledezma, who fled Venezuela, and activist Lorent Saleh, who was released.
Leopoldo López assures that there will be more military uprisings
For his part, Leopoldo Lopez has appeared this afternoon in front of the residence of the Spanish ambassador in Venezuela and has warned that there will be new military uprisings against the Government of Nicolás Maduro, which he does not recognize, and that he tried to overthrow with an ephemeral rebellion led by Juan Guaidó , along with a score of uniformed last Tuesday.
"Of course, more military movements are coming," López told reporters outside the residence of the Spanish ambassador in Caracas, Jesús Silva Fernández, in which he remains a guest.
Lopez has claimed what happened on April 30 not as a coup but as part of a process for the establishment of a transitional government for Venezuela.
"What happened on Tuesday is part of a process that was always raised as a first step, not as a definitive process," he said in response to a question from the press about the "precipitation" of the events of April 30.
In any case, it has denied that it was an attempted coup d'état and has supported this maneuver in Article 333 of the Constitution. "Any Venezuelan, whether they have a uniform or not, has a duty to contribute to restoring constitutional order." "The break that opened on April 30 will become a crack and crack in a fissure," he said.
López stressed that the Armed Forces "are a fundamental component of our struggle." The opposition leader explained that during his period of house arrest he met with "commanders, generals and officers of the different police agencies" who declared their adherence to the Constitution and the self-proclaimed president Juan Guaidó.
After the rebellion of members of the Army last Tuesday, Lopez entered the Chilean Embassy, but finally moved to the residence of the Spanish ambassador, Jesus Silva.
"To thank the president of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sánchez, the Spaniards, the Spanish people, who have been very supportive of Venezuela," he said.
Spain affirms that it will not deliver to Leopoldo López
Meanwhile, the Spanish government has stated tonight in a statement that it has no intention of handing over the opposition leader