Venezuela: The Venezuelan Supreme Court puppet of Nicolás Maduro will ask Spain to hand over the exiled opponent Leopoldo López

The Supreme Court of Justice of Venezuela, a puppet body of the drug dictatorship of Nicolás Maduro, has approved this Tuesday to request Spain to extradite the opposition Leopoldo López, so that he can serve the rest of his sentence, of more than eight years, in Venezuelan territory. for various crimes, including the instigation of violence, after having gone into exile in Spain after fleeing Venezuela across the border with Colombia in October of last year.Through a brief statement, this Supreme puppet -there is another organ similar in exile that investigates Venezuelan corruption and its connections with Podemos – has declared it “appropriate” to request the Spanish authorities to extradite López, who was sentenced to fourteen years in prison in 2015 for inciting violence in the riots of the opposition from a year earlier against the government of President Nicolás Maduro. After passing through the Ramo Verde military prison in Caracas, he was placed under house arrest.The Venezuelan Supreme Court has specified that López, according to them, still has to serve a sentence of “eight years, six months, 25 days and 12 hours, for having been convicted of committing the crimes of determining the crime of arson, determining the crime of damage, perpetrating the crime of public instigation and association. ”At the end of October 2020, López, leader of the party opposition Popular Will, left the Spanish Embassy in Caracas, where he had been since April 30, 2019, to clandestinely cross the border with Colombia, from where he flew to Spain, where he has resided since then as a political exile.A weeks ago, López himself pointed out that he lacked “precise” information on the possible movements of the Venezuelan Prosecutor’s Office to request his extradition, although, despite everything, he affirmed that he has “a clear conscience.” At this time, the Venezuelan court should not be taken into consideration by any country in which the rule of law prevails, “he warned Spain.” The mere acceptance of a process like this would be a validation of an unlawful justice system, illegal and complicit in the criminal dictatorship “, to the extent that, according to López, the entire Venezuelan judicial system is” deeply corrupt and dependent on the dictatorship’s designs. “