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Published: Wednesday, 20 March 2019 07:34

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Photo: PLCaracas, Mar 20.- The National Constituent Assembly (ANC) of Venezuela urged the authorities to enforce the Anti-Hate Law approved in 2017, in response to calls for intolerance and confrontation promoted by the opposition today.

During the special session held on Tuesday, the head of the plenipotentiary body, Diosdado Cabello, requested the creation of two commissions, in charge of transferring the corresponding requests to the Supreme Court of Justice and the Public Prosecutor's Office.

The first vice president of the ANC, Tania Diaz, reiterated the need to assert the rights stipulated in the law against hate, for peaceful coexistence and tolerance, referring to perpetrated attacks in the state of Tachira in the hours to electrical sabotage of March 7 last.

The latest in the town of Umuquena, municipality of San Judas Tadeo, in the western demarcation, Saturday violent individuals set fire to the residence of the mayor Betzabeth Gandica, who complained to the constituent forum the risk that underwent his family.

The official indicated that it was a terrorism plan organized by opposition activists - four of them placed in the custody of the authorities - who threatened to assassinate her, for which she requested that justice be applied to the people involved in the act.

In this sense, Tania Díaz repudiated an ongoing psychological operation against the Venezuelan population that sympathizes with the Bolivarian revolutionary process.

The correspondent of the multinational chain Telesur, Madelein García, also gave her testimony before the ANC, in which she denounced threats against her person for the simple fact of reporting the truth about the events of last February 23 on the Colombian-Venezuelan border.

García was one of the first journalists to dismantle the media campaign around the burning of a convoy of supposed humanitarian aid, in order to blame the Venezuelan forces of order, when in reality it was the work of violent groups encouraged by the opposition.

Constitutional Law against hate, for the Peaceful Coexistence and Tolerance approved by the plenipotentiary organ, came into force on November 9, 2017, and establishes penalties of up to twenty years in prison for those found guilty of promoting crimes of that nature. (PL)