Caracas, April 18, 2024.- This Thursday, during the Gathering for a World Social Alternative, the executive secretary of the Bolivarian Alliance of the Peoples of Our America – People’s Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP), Jorge Arreaza, made a brief statement about the recent event concerning the mayor of Recoleta in Santiago, Chile, Óscar Daniel Jadue Jadue, who was prevented from leaving his country to travel to Venezuela for this event.

Likewise, Arreaza informed that according to the press release issued this Thursday morning, Prosecutor Johanna Herrera of the Chilean Public Prosecutor’s Office, “told the mayor that if he traveled, she would issue an arrest warrant against him based on the suspicion that he might apply for asylum in that country”.

Hence, through his X official account Jadue stated that “I do not have any injunction. The Prosecutor threatens me with arrest. This is an attack on democracy and an authoritarian and unconstitutional measure”, he posted, while stressing that he will exercise “all legal actions to stop these arbitrary actions”.

In the same vein, Jorge Arreaza expressed that “we deplore and we are shocked that they basically took him off the plane, but on the other hand it makes us laugh, since it is clear that we and our people know Daniel Jadue better than them, he will always face Chilean justice and will be cleared of any accusation, since he is a good, honest man and a true man of the people”.