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Alonso was born in Cuba, but is a Venezuelan and American national.
The Venezuelan government began the procedures to revoke the nationality of the actress and singer María Conchita Alonso, according to a resolution of the Ministry of the Interior, Justice and Peace, published in the Official Gazette of the nation this Wednesday.
According to local media, the argument used by the Venezuelan authorities are statements by the artist in which she expressed the desire that the US invade Venezuela to depose the current government.
“I would like the United States to invade with bullets to get all those unfortunate communists out of Venezuela, since the Cubans invaded without bullets, since they gave Venezuela a gift,” he told the Voice of America last May, after a visit to the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the US Congress.
The authorities appointed the lawyer Douglas León Camero Montañez to file before the corresponding bodies the revocation of the nationality of Alonso, who was born in Cienfuegos, Cuba, but emigrated with her family to Venezuela in 1962, when she was five years old.
Alonso, who has settled in the United States since the 1990s to pursue his career in film and television, also has American nationality.
The actress is a harsh critic of the government of Nicolás Maduro, as was the late President Hugo Chávez.
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María Conchita Alonso is a harsh critic of the Venezuelan government.
Sources close to the artist assured BBC Mundo that, if the withdrawal of Venezuelan nationality materializes, they will seek to appeal the decision.
During the recent wave of student protests that shook Venezuela in the first half of the year, Alonso was one of the personalities who promoted solidarity actions with the Venezuelan opposition and demonstrated that the US government would implement economic sanctions.
Alonso took part in the Miss Venezuela 1975 contest, was a commercial model and tried his hand at music.
He also participated in several American movies and series; including “Desperate Housewives” and “Predator II.”
The actress is the sister of Roger Alonso, owner of a farm on the outskirts of Caracas where, in 2004, 56 alleged Colombian paramilitaries were arrested who, according to then-President Chávez, were trying to overthrow him.
