Gonzalez told Prensa Latina that the Venezuelan president is an internationally protected person under the 1973 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes against Internationally Protected Persons, a legal instrument signed by most United Nations member states, as well as those to the Vienna and Geneva Conventions.

In his view, the heads of State are the primary subject of public international law and, therefore, their office and legal status remain intact under any circumstances, regardless of the location or the facts invoked against them.

He underscored, “No one can deprive a president of their international legal status.”

The academician pointed out that the January 3 events in Venezuela are a terrorist-military act, executed with prior planning and in violation not only of Venezuela’s sovereignty, but also of the territorial sea rights of the Caribbean, a region declared a Zone of Peace by the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC).

The jurist pointed out that the reestablishment of military bases and the deployment of foreign forces in the Caribbean violate international agreements submitted to the United Nations and reveal a systematic disregard for international law by the United States, which he defined as an empire acting under a supremacist logic.

Gonzalez warned that this event marks a turning point for regional security, dismantling the peace agreements and mechanisms for coexistence built after World War II, leaving Latin American states exposed to new forms of intervention and coercion.

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