Hooded officials reportedly besieging the Argentine Embassy in Caracas

The complaint was made public on the same day that the Argentine Foreign Ministry urged the International Criminal Court (CPI) to request an arrest warrant “against Nicolás Maduro and other leaders of the regime,” “given the worsening situation” following the presidential elections in Venezuela on July 28.

“Given the worsening of the situation in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela since July 28 and the commission of new acts that may be considered crimes against humanity, the Argentine Republic urges the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to request the Pre-Trial Chamber to issue arrest warrants against Nicolás Maduro and other leaders of the regime,” the Foreign Ministry reported in a statement.

The Argentine government announced that on Monday it will submit a note to the ICC Prosecutor’s Office in which it argues that “the evidence gathered in the course of the investigations carried out by the International Criminal Court and the events that occurred after the presidential elections on July 28 are sufficient elements to consider the merit of issuing the aforementioned arrest warrants.”