The similarities between Venezuela’s murderous dictatorship and Cuba’s murderous dictatorship are undeniable. But then again, why would anyone expect anything different from a puppet dictatorship in Venezuela controlled and manipulated from Havana?
Venezuela’s Maduro Orders Prosecution of Catholic Bishops for Speaking Out Against Crisis
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has ordered an investigation into two Venezuelan bishops, calling them a “plague” during a speech.
Maduro said Monseñor Víctor Hugo Basabe and Antonio López Castillo might be guilty of “hate crimes” for calling for the liberation of Venezuela in their sermons.
Maduro went before the Constituent Assembly he illegally implemented and said the Catholic Church of Venezuela is full of “evil,” “poison,” “hatred,” “perversion” and “slander.” He urged the Prosecutor’s Office, Ombudsman’s Office, the Comptroller’s Office and the Supreme Court of Justice to deal with the issue.
“We should see … if the words issued by some of these people correspond to real hate crimes that seek to generate confrontation among Venezuelans: including such things as violence, death, exclusion and persecution,” he said.
Maduro claimed that the bishops had allegedly violated his “law against hate,” while himself calling representatives of the church “devils in a cassock.”
“Nobody listens to these people,” he said. “Nobody believes in these devils with cassock, we love the creator God, we love the Divine Shepherdess.”
Maduro is very sensitive of any and all criticisms against him, especially as the country’s crisis worsens. He was reportedly annoyed that Monsignor Basabe, the Bishop of the Diocese of San Felipe, criticized Venezuela’s food shortage that has forced thousands of people to eat from the trash.
“If anyone should leave Venezuela, it should be the person responsible for this disaster that they have led us into, the person responsible for thousands of children having crossed the line into severe malnutrition,” Basabe said.
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