About This Book
This book of Professor Allan R. Brewer-Carías, refers to the institution of Amnesty regulated in article 187.5 of the Constitution of Venezuela, as a privilege of the National Assembly to decriminalize certain facts, generally related to political events, extinguishing the crimes or misdemeanors that may have been committed link to such events.
The book begins by analyzing the motives for the suspension of the legislative discussion of the Amnesty Law Draft submitted by the National Executive, only three weeks after the extraction on January 3, 2026 of Nicolas Maduro by law enforcement authorities of the United States, based on the argument that the Draft violated the principle of equality and nondiscrimination (Introduction); followed by the study of the nature of the institution, distinguishing it from the Executive Perdon (Part One).
Subsequently, to understand the matter, the book study the experiences of the amnesty process followed with the approval of the Special Law on Amnesty of 2007 (Part Tow) , and of the Amnesty and National reconciliation Law of 2016, the later annulled by the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Tribunal Part Three).
Finaly, the book overview all the legal opinions and proposals written by civil society institutions related to the Amnesty Draft Law of 2026, prior to the continuation of the second discussion before the National Assembly (Part Four) .
