Argentine federal judge Sebastián Ramos requested this Wednesday (4) the extradition of Nicolás Maduro from the USA to Argentina, due to a process being processed in the country’s courts and in which the former dictator is accused of crimes against humanity committed in Venezuela.
The case opened against Maduro in Argentina began in 2023 with a complaint filed by the Argentine Forum for the Defense of Democracy (FADD) and based on the principle of universal jurisdiction, which allows countries to prosecute serious crimes against human rights regardless of where they were committed and the nationality of those responsible or their victims.
In the resolution to which the EFE Agency had access, the magistrate ordered the issuance of an “international letter rogatory to the USA, to request the extradition of Nicolás Maduro Moros, who had recently been detained in Venezuela and transferred deprived of liberty to American territory”.
The magistrate, who based his request on the extradition treaty that Argentina maintains with the USA, had already ordered in September 2024 the arrest of Maduro, as well as that of the Venezuelan Interior Minister, Diosdado Cabello, and other members of the Chavista dictatorship.
The Federal Chamber considered, at the time, that the leadership of the Venezuelan regime carried out “a systematic plan, over time and in an organized manner” against the civilian population of the Caribbean country through practices of “persecution, kidnapping, torture and murder”.
Now, faced with Maduro’s capture by the US on January 3, prosecutor Carlos Stornelli asked the judge, two days later, “to therefore begin the active extradition procedure in relation to Nicolás Maduro Moros, so that he can be subjected to the present process.”
