The bill was presented, discussed and approved by the majority of the Assembly on April 2nd.

Deputy for the Homeland Bloc Diosdado Cabello made the proposal on Monday in light of the acts of vandalism and violence that occurred on July 29th and 30th, in which 25 people lost their lives and another 129 were injured.

The Law consists of four chapters, 30 articles as a whole, and aims to establish the means and mechanisms to preserve peaceful coexistence, public tranquility, the democratic exercise of popular will and the recognition of diversity and tolerance. It also has a special chapter dedicated to social networks, which are described as “new machinery” designed to promote hatred and violence over “tolerance, love and coexistence.”

The second chapter prohibits the dissemination of messages that advocate violence, promote violence as a method of political action or denigrate democracy, its institutions and republican values.

Cabello invited all the deputies and the people to actively participate in the referendum for “the application of this very important regulation to remove from Venezuela that terrible scourge of fascism or any form of neo-fascism,” he said.

The official stressed that those who “should be worried are the fascists, the neo-fascists and the usual haters.”

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