Did Merida Mayor Abraham Hayon call for US military intervention?

What did Abraham Hayon say on social media?

The “man with the hat” that Diosdado Cabello referred to is called Abraham Hayon, he is of Jewish origin and He was dismissed and reinstated during his current term as mayor | videos from 08/16/2024 on the Instagram of the mayor of Rangel

The Interior Minister is presumed to be referring to a trio of Instagram reel videos —the firsthe second and the third— which were published on August 16, 2024 and are not actually on Hayon’s personal networks (Your X account is inactive), but on the Instagram profile of the Rangel mayor’s office.

Extracts:

“There are international attempts to help achieve a negotiated solution. We know that dictatorships do not come out with votes, but by force, but (…) let us arrive as sensible people at a negotiated solution.”

«As the world’s leading power, and in conjunction with other countries and in consensus, the United States must intervene in humanitarian action to safeguard peace and national security. and guarantee the institutional order of the Republic of Venezuela. On July 28 of this year 2024, elections were held where the population (…) massively voted for an opposition candidate and unfortunately an unusual fraud was committed. There is compelling evidence.

Abraham Hayon believes that the United States, as the world’s leading power, “must intervene in humanitarian action to safeguard peace and national security.” Strictly speaking, it refers to a “humanitarian action” and does not refer to armed intervention.

What the Penal Code says

This is what Articles 128 and 129 of the 2000 Penal Code say about crimes of treason against the homeland in trials of civilians:

Article 128. “Anyone who, in agreement with a foreign nation or with external enemies, conspires against the integrity of the territory of the homeland or against its republican institutions, or attacks it by any means for any of these purposes, will be punished with a prison sentence of twenty to thirty years.”

Article 129. “Anyone who, inside or outside Venezuela, without complicity with another nation, single-handedly attacks the independence or integrity of the geographical space of the Republic, will be punished with a prison sentence of twenty to twenty-six years.”

“Anyone who requests, manages or implores, in any way, the intervention of a foreign government to overthrow the Venezuelan government will be punished with the same penalty.”

Regarding another different case from 2017 (the arrest of judges appointed to the TSJ by the opposition-majority National Assembly in 2017), The NGO Access to Justice left a series of considerations on the arbitrary application of the crime of treason to civilians.