November 5th would be the deadline for Nicolás Maduro to decide whether he prefers to abandon the power he now usurps in Venezuela and seek exile, or else the United States would arrest him and he would serve time in one of the country’s prisons.
The ultimatum given to Maduro, which was reportedly delivered by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, is a decision taken by President Joe Biden, according to a video circulating on social media by journalist Jaime Bayly, who claims to have obtained this information from reliable sources in London.
“You have to leave power before November 5th, and you only have two options, either you go into exile or you go to jail,” is the decision taken by the US regarding Maduro, Bayly said in his recorded message on Saturday, August 10th.
“If you do not leave power before November 5, we will arrest you and put you in a cell in the United States,” Blinken reportedly told Maduro on behalf of President Biden.
“If instead you peacefully leave power before November 5, recognizing your defeat in the last elections,” then Biden and Blinken have told Maduro, Bayly says, “we will give you everything you want, we will fulfill your requests and requirements.”
According to this message shared on YouTube, if Maduro surrenders, then the Biden administration would facilitate Maduro, his family, his associates and his subordinates, going into exile to enjoy the immense ill-gotten fortune they have.
That exile, based on what the US government offers Maduro, could be Panama, which has already offered it; the Dominican Republic, which has privately said it is willing, and of course, Cuba, says Bayly. If one wanted to go further, Turkey could also be the destination.
Maduro still seems reluctant to accept the offer, for now.
Biden told Maduro that he will leave the presidency on January 20, 2025, after the new president-elect in the US takes office in November 2024, leaving in Venezuela a democratic government elected by the majority and that government was already overwhelmingly elected on July 28, “we are not going to repeat elections under any circumstances,” Biden has specified.
Bayly offers a detailed explanation that the strategy plotted by Maduro with the complicity of the Supreme Court of Justice, so that this institution that operates at his service validates the fraud decreed by the National Electoral Council (CNE), will not have an effect because precisely in order to be able to carry out the fraud and so that there would be no evidence that the announced figures in which they granted a false victory to Maduro, the CNE itself destroyed them because the original minutes disappeared.
Bayly also explains that the only evidence of the true minutes and the real vote that granted Edmundo González Urrutia victory as president-elect of Venezuela was obtained by the opposition, thanks to the meticulous and risky work of the table witnesses and military personnel guarding the voting centers who managed to obtain that information.
The ultimatum that the United States has given Maduro is a real turning point and a decisive action that joins the strategy of resistance and unity supported by the Venezuelan democratic forces and the people, who demand that the sovereign right of voters expressed at the ballot box be respected. This is also the position taken by international organizations and agencies and countries that demand that Maduro respect and show with transparency the electoral results of July 28.
The United States could carry out Maduro’s arrest based on several arguments, including: he is a fugitive from U.S. justice with drug trafficking charges against him and a $15 million reward offered for his capture, as well as the crimes committed under his orders against the civilian population that peacefully protests in the streets demanding respect for his decision issued at the polls.
Iliana Lavastida
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