In an open letter to the international community and multilateral organizations, Nobel Peace Prize winner Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, renowned journalist Stella Calloni, political scientist Atilio Borón and leaders of political and social organizations condemned the attacks against President Nicolás Maduro and his officials.

The letter denounces actions such as the issuance of an arrest warrant against Maduro and the first vice-president of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela, Diosdado Cabello, for extradition to Argentina, with the support of the International Criminal Police Organization.

In addition, they described as unlawful and contradictory the attempt to investigate in Argentina the false claims against the legitimate president of Venezuela, which violates international norms.

This disproportionate decision is a new chapter of lawfare (legal warfare) that takes the dimension of international persecution and adds to the interventionist and destabilizing policies led by the United States, warns the letter.

The choice of Argentina as a platform for attack is related to the unconditional alignment of President Javier Milei to the most abhorrent powers of humanity, those that perpetrate or support the genocide in Gaza and the impoverishment and subjugation of the grass root majorities, which are suffering the insatiable appetite of big capital, it adds.

The Argentine Chapter warns that this decision intends to neutralize processes, leaderships and governments representing the big masses, but this time it is aggravated by the fact that this is an extraterritorial operation that infringes upon the sovereignty of a sisterly nation and violates fundamental principles of international law.

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