Overview
- President Nicolás Maduro formally petitioned the Supreme Tribunal to strip the opposition leader’s nationality, accusing him of promoting a possible U.S. intervention.
- López said he will not litigate in Caracas, calling the judiciary a “fiction of justice” and asserting the proposal lacks any constitutional basis.
- He endorsed “all necessary actions” to neutralize the alleged Cartel de los Soles led by Maduro and Diosdado Cabello, framing recent U.S. steps as anti-narcotics as Washington expands deployments in the Caribbean and authorizes CIA covert activity.
- Colombian president Gustavo Petro denied López’s insinuation linking him to narcotrafficking, labeling the claim “criminal and arbitrary.”
- The move challenges Venezuela’s constitutional bar on revoking nationality from citizens by birth and follows allied petitions to denationalize other opponents, drawing parallels to Nicaragua’s 2023 cases.