more-inVenezuela’s chief prosecutor asked the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights for protection on Friday, days after the Supreme Court barred her from leaving the country and ordered her bank accounts frozen. Since then, she has become one of the few critical voices within the government other than the sidelined congress challenging Mr. Maduro’s push to rewrite the Constitution and pressing charges against officers responsible for deaths during anti-government protests. Mr. Maduro responded hours later by promoting Mr. Gonzalez to head the nation’s army. He called Mr. Gonzalez and another high-ranking official under probe “brave patriots”. The developments capped perhaps the most turbulent week yet in Ms. Ortega Diaz’s struggle to assert her office’s authority in a country where nearly every branch of the federal government is filled with Maduro allies.

Source: The Hindu July 01, 2017 15:11 UTC