The Venezuelan opposition in Miami called
the closure of the Venezuelan consulate in Florida by decision of President
Hugo Chávez a "crime against humanity,” and promised to bring Chávez before
the International Court of Justice in The Hague.
The 19,000 people registered to vote in the
October 7 presidential elections at the consulate in Miami—the largest voting
center outside Venezuela, which has been closed since January—had hoped that the
National Electoral Council (CNE) would change its measure to relocate them to New
Orleans (Louisiana) by Wednesday, the last day for it to do so. New Orleans is more
than 1,350 km, or some 14 hours by car, from Miami, Florida.
Timoteo Zambrano, the International
Secretary of Un Nuevo Tiempo and a
member of the Latin American Parliament, rejected this decision, stating that "it
violates the constitutional decision that protects the political rights of
those Venezuelans and means that the council itself is turning its back on its
legal obligation to guarantee equality in the process.”
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