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January 14, 2019 01:07 PM
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Updated 14 January 2019 13:23
"We do not recognize the legitimacy of the Maduro government and we are willing to support the decisions taken by the National Assembly, in accordance with the powers it has, as prescribed by the Venezuelan Constitution, one of which is enshrined in Article 233."
Those were the statements released Monday by Foreign Minister Carlos Holmes Trujillo on the complex situation that exists in Venezuela after the second possession of Nicolás Maduro and the decision of the National Assembly of that country to ignore his mandate.
On Friday, referring to article 233 of that political letter, the president of the National Assembly, Juan Guaidó, invited the Venezuelans, including the army, to push Maduro out of power and said he was willing to "assume the powers of the office of a Presidency of the Republic". After the statements of Guaidó, both the OAS and the United States encouraged the Venezuelan deputy to "seek an orderly transition".
Although Colombia did not explicitly rule on this possibility, Trujillo talked about the recognition of the Assembly decisions, also with regard to article 233, which states that the President of the National Assembly must assume executive power if the elected executive has an absolute lack, to call after the presidential election.
This article states that the President of the Republic will be absent, among others, "his death, his resignation, or his dismissal decreed by the Supreme Court of Justice", as well as "the popular revocation of his mandate". The Chancellor also announced in dialogue with The W, that several countries on the continent will have a meeting to be held this week in the United States to address this situation.
"We do not recognize the legitimacy of the Maduro government and we are willing to support the decisions taken by the National Assembly"
"The Lima Group is in constant communication, at this moment we are defining a meeting to be held this week in Washington, where we would be in the framework of the OSA to analyze the latest developments very carefully". he assured Holmes Trujillo.
On 4 January, the Lima group agreed on measures to prevent senior regime officials from entering the territories of the 13 countries that signed the declaration, preparing lists of natural and legal persons with whom financial and banking institutions should not operate or they must have special due diligence and, if necessary, freeze their funds and other assets or economic resources, evaluate the loans of international financial organizations to the government of Maduro and suspend military cooperation.
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