Venezuelan Embassies are filters for the Maduro Regime

Venezuelan embassies and consulates around the world are serving as filters for the Maduro regime to keep the opposition from traveling in and out of the country.

According to the agency AFP, (Agence France-Presse), only10% of those Venezuelans that hold diplomatic positions in embassies around the world have a diplomatic education.  It is not unusual for some diplomats to be selected because of their affiliation with the president, but in the case of Venezuela the majority of the diplomatic personnel are relatives of high profile chavistas. As a result, outrageous injustices are occurring in those institutions. 

Venezuelans in foreign lands are having difficulties renewing or even obtaining new passports. Furthermore, the Maduro regime now requires that Venezuelans with foreign passports obtain a visa to return to their country; otherwise they will be deported. Last week the first Venezuelan in the history of Venezuela, was deported because she did not have a visa. 

Since the embassies are controlled by chavistas with family ties to the regime, they decide who does and does not receive a visa. It is preposterous and despicable that Venezuelans living abroad cannot go back to their country without facing the obstacles imposed by their oppressive government. 

The Maduro regime is trying to ensure that Venezuelans who are not aligned with this tyrannical government have no rights under the same constitution and as members of the same nationality.