The Assembly Speaker, Cilia Flores, announced that not only the case would be investigated but also Azuaje himself for reportedly having carried out an multimillionaire campaign for the presentation of the complaints.
Azuaje immediately joined the Gente Emergente party, where Julio César Reyes was already a member, shortly thereafter this organization was expelled from the ruling Patriotic Alliance coalition.
Azuaje declared himself against it and, along with other dissident deputies, created a small political group called Frente Amplio Nacional (National Broad Front) against the amendment.
[7] On March 25, 2010 Azuaje was detained by the Scientific, Criminal and Criminalistic Investigations Corps (CICPC) when he was about to pick up a vehicle that was being held at the police headquarters since they tried to approach him for an alleged attack in October 2009.
Ismael García, leader of the Podemos party, in defense of his colleague, declared in the National Assembly that what was said about the flagrancy of the crime by the head of the judicial police, Wilmer Flores Trosel, were lies, and accused the Minister of the Interior, Tareck El Aissami, of lending himself to mount a hoax in the same line and with the same arguments of the Nixon Moreno case, saying "We are facing an express trial, they have violated all the rights of the deputy to put a file on him.
[13] In October 2020, he submitted a report to the International Criminal Court and to the European Parliament as well that argues that there was not an armed confrontation during the May 2020 Operation Gideon and that its participants were set up, tortured and extrajudicially executed.
[24] On 19 February 2009, his brother César José Azuaje Cordero, 28 years old, was killed along with Joel Miguel Carballo under strange circumstances at a service station in the city of Barinas.