Hermann Escarrá
[2] Unlike his brother Carlos Escarrá, who was a militant of the ruling party, Escarrá strongly criticized Chavez in the coming years, filing appeals in the Supreme Tribunal of Justice against the president's actions, calling to ignore the government in December 2007 with a march to return to Miraflores, calling for an indefinite strike as parliamentarian after the expropriations in the South of the Lake of 2010, and describing in 2010 the Communes Law and the Communal Parliament as "a coup d'etat to the Constitution."[3] In September 2012, Escarrá made harsh criticisms of a supposed government plan that was attributed to Henrique Capriles and the campaign command of the Democratic Unity Roundtable.The opposition candidate declared that the documents and program made public by VTV and criticized by Escarrá were false and were not part of his campaign promise.[5] After Nicolás Maduro was elected as the new president of Venezuela in April 2013, he served as an adviser and collaborator on constitutional issues; He has been named member of the dialogue tables with the opposition and of the Truth, Justice and Peace Commission.[8] On 9 August 2017, the United States Department of the Treasury placed sanctions on Escarrá for his position in the Presidential Commission in the 2017 Constituent Assembly of Venezuela.