Judges who fled Venezuela sees themselves as guarantors of the country's constitution and back opposition leader Juan Guaido over President Maduro.
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies has announced it plans to begin distributing aid to more than half a million people.
He directly opposed the National Assembly’s 2017 appointments to the Supreme Court. Two days after the judges were sworn in, Maduro declared the appointments illegal, announcing in a televised broadcast that all of the judges “are going to be detained, one by one … and all of them will have their assets, accounts and everything frozen.”
In an absentee trial for Maduro, Venezuela's former chief prosecutor, Luisa Ortega Díaz, accused the president of receiving $35 million in bribes. Interpol, the judges say, has not responded to a request for an alert for his arrest.The court is among other opposition-led branches of government — the executive and the legislative — that exist with international recognition but little power alongside parallel pro-Maduro institutions.
“Every decision that the assembly makes,” he said, “and every validation by the supreme court in exile fortifies the path for reinstituting the constitution in the country.” Several judges said no matter how long they spent abroad, they would return to Venezuela after a change in government.
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