Franco Casella
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Franco Casella (Spanish: [ˈfɾaŋko kaˈseʎa]; died 6 August 2025) was a Venezuelan politician.
In the 2015 Venezuelan parliamentary elections, he was elected as a deputy for the Vente Venezuela party to the National Assembly, where he was a member of the Subcommittee on Human Rights.[1]
On 14 May 2019, he took refuge in the Mexican embassy in Caracas after being accused by the 2017 National Constituent Assembly of being linked to the uprising against Nicolás Maduro on 30 April.[2] Casella was in the embassy for four months until 20 September, when he went into exile in Spain.[3][4] On 2 March 2021, he was politically disqualified for 15 years by Comptroller General Elvis Amoroso.[5]
Casella died in Spain on 6 August 2025, after suffering two heart attacks.[1]
References
- 1 2 "Falleció en el exilio el diputado Franco Casella". El Nacional (in Spanish). 6 August 2025. Retrieved 8 August 2025.
- ↑ "México brinda protección en su embajada al diputado Franco Casella". El Pitazo (in Spanish). 15 May 2019. Retrieved 8 August 2025.
- ↑ "Diputado opositor abandona embajada de México en Caracas y huye de Venezuela". EFE (in Spanish). 21 September 2019. Archived from the original on 24 September 2019. Retrieved 11 August 2025.
- ↑ Lozano, Daniel (25 September 2019). "Franco Casella, diputado venezolano huido a España: "La reelección de Juan Guaidó es un hecho"". El Mundo (in Spanish). Retrieved 8 August 2025.
- ↑ "Régimen inhabilita de nuevo a Juan Guaidó y suma a otros diputados". El Nacional (in Spanish). 23 February 2021. Retrieved 8 August 2025.