Venezuelan Attorney General Tarek William Saab gives statements to the press on January 22, 2024, about terrorist plots unveiled last year. Photo: X/@TarekWilliamSaab.
On Sunday, the attorney general of Venezuela, Tarek William Saab, addressed the foreign minister of Argentina, Gerardo Werthein. This discussion took place within the framework of the investigation that Venezuelan authorities are carrying out into the Argentinian citizen Nahuel Gallo, detained in Venezuela for being involved in a conspiracy plot.
Saab’s statement, published on his Instagram account, is in response to the Argentinian foreign minister, who, after it was reported by Venezuela’s Judiciary that he is considered a “person of interest,” along with Argentinian Minister of Security Patricia Bullrich, in the investigation against the Argentinian gendarme, accused Saab of “trying to divert attention,” of committing “abuses” during his administration of the Public Ministry (MP), and invited him to face him in an impartial court.
In this regard, Saab says, “Mr. Werthein will surely not face the law soon, because the Argentinian justice system is co-opted by Macri’s government, which is currently on his side, but that will not be forever. When the time comes, the Argentinian people will seek justice for all the abuses and excesses of a criminal gang, of which you are the international spokesperson.”
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The Venezuelan attorney general also said that he has “nothing to discuss” with him “in any scenario.”
“In Venezuela, we are fighting at the risk of our lives, to defend our sovereignty, and against the cruelest imperial enemy in history that seeks to bathe our land of grace in blood,” Saab added.
It is worth noting that on December 19, Argentinian Vice President Victoria Villarruel questioned the decision to authorize Argentinian police officer Nahuel Gallo’s trip to Venezuela.
Villarruel blames Argentina’s security agencies, under the tutelage of Security Minister Patricia Bullrich, for authorizing the gendarme’s trip under the pretext of visiting his family, while Venezuelan authorities did not find the motive of the visit to be accurate.
Full unofficial translation of the statement:
Response to Mr. Gerardo Werthein, person for the Argentinian underworld
That someone born with a silver spoon in their mouth, and a foreign affairs representative of a government that is the laughing stock of the world for its submission to the US and “Israel,” for its diplomatic incoherence, its cheap bragging, its psychotic pretensions devoid of any notion of reality, should try to give me lessons on justice and human rights, makes me feel compassion and pity for him.
For approximately 48 years, I have worked to defend the human rights of the persecuted and vulnerable sectors of my country. As a result, I was arrested by governments that practiced state terrorism on several occasions, without a trial, and without my rights being respected. I have been a revolutionary activist since I was 14 years old on the front lines of student struggles, and I have been elected and re-elected as congressman, constituent assemblyman, governor, ombudsman, and attorney general.
The reason I have held all these high responsibilities of state during all these decades is because of my unwavering consistency, my ethics, my constant study, and my prolific writing, with 13 published books, as well as my tireless capacity for work: not like you, who became Chancellor by chance, through laziness and your surname.
And if the defense of the peace of our country leads me to receive the attacks of a vulgar upstart in politics, elected by a madman who campaigned with a chainsaw and boasts that he is going to destroy the Argentinian state, then I take his bilious pamphlet of yesterday as a great recognition.
Your arrival at the Foreign Ministry could not have had a worse message, since your predecessor was fired for voting, alongside 186 countries in the world, including all of Latin America, to oppose the criminal blockade against Cuba. Your president was furious because he did not vote alongside his bosses from “Israel” and the US.
At the height of ignominy, which goes down in the dustbin of infamy: you swore your oath of office on the Torah, breaking with the historic republican tradition of Argentina and making it clear that before answering to the Constitution, your commitment is to the powers that practice ethnic cleansing against Palestinians.
You, Mr. Werthein, will surely not face the law soon, because the Argentinian justice system has been co-opted by the Macri government, which is currently on your side, but that will not be forever. When the time comes, the Argentinian people will seek justice for all the abuses and excesses of a criminal gang of which you are the international spokesperson.
I have nothing to discuss with a famously corrupt person like you (with a miserable criminal record) in any scenario, since you are just completing the kindergarten education of politics in lowercase. I, on the other hand, owe myself to the glorious Venezuelan people and to the Constitution on which I swore my oath of office.
In Venezuela, we are fighting at risk of our lives, for the defense of our sovereignty, and against the cruelest imperial enemy in history that seeks to bathe our land of grace in blood.
History will put everyone in their place, but you and your henchmen have already entered, through the back door, into the garbage dump of the underworld.
Translation: Orinoco Tribune
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