Editorial: El Mundo

• The recently approved amnesty law presents a dual rhetoric, where its presentation as an act of reconciliation twists the reality.
• The amnesty, although demanded by the United States, is partial and is used by the regime for self-protection.
• International demands to the regime should not decrease, but increase.
• The amnesty is selective and could possibly omit hundreds of the current 700 political prisoners.
• Exiles are required to defend their cases in front of the same courts that pursued them.
• The system of legal persecution and its judges still remain in place.

Conclusion: This amnesty, although it presents a façade of normalization, does not dismantle the authoritarian structure of Venezuela. True democratization demands guarantees, institutional dismantling, and free elections for all actors under equal conditions.

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