MÉRIDA, Mexico – Artists of different nationalities have spoken out in favor of change in Venezuela.
Ricardo Montaner, Franco de Vita, Paulina Rubio, Carlos Vives and Alejandro Sanz wish for the end of the Nicolás Maduro regime and a democratic transition in Venezuela.
“Venezuela, I am with you, we have to do something, together we can do it.” tweeted Paulina Rubio.
The Mexican singer also shared a YouTube video explaining the context in which the elections are taking place.
Colombian Carlos Vives shared a message with his Venezuelan friends encouraging them to embrace this moment of “spreading their wings” again
“Venezuela, you have the key to my heart and I only hope that we all meet again. Things have to change, I am with you,” Vives said on his networks.
“Hopefully tomorrow change will become a reality. Every vote… A voice, a hope, a future. Venezuela, tomorrow with you,” he asked, for his part, Spanish singer Alejandro Sanz.
Likewise, popular Venezuelan singer-songwriters such as Ricardo Montaner and Franco de Vita have shared the desire for change of many Venezuelans.
“The country that embraced me since I arrived as a child, the one that raised me and gave me a beautiful family, a wonderful wife and talented and good children, 5 of whom were born in Venezuela and 8 of them grandchildren with Venezuelan blood, the land that sheltered my parents and opened its arms to us when we arrived from Argentina,” Montaner began by saying in a long text.
“The place where my beginnings found the first applause, there in my beloved Maracaibo… that ‘Little Venice’, that generous land, the Venezuela full of nature, contrasts and hope, is about to give birth…”, added the singer-songwriter who then assured that “A new nation is about to be born.”
Montaner asked that the election day be “a day of encounter and not of divisions, it is an opportunity that not everyone has… it is a day of reconciliation, that is why this call.”
Franco de Vita shared an emotional video accompanied by his song in support of María Corina Machado and the Venezuelan opposition.
“Your vote is the key,” he wrote on his networks.
Venezuela votes for the end of Chavismo or its continuation
Ripewho has used all the resources of the State to support his campaign, and who controls Venezuelan institutions, including the electoral one, has threatened a bloodbath if he does not win.
On Friday, at the end of his campaign, he said that “we will not allow them to continue causing harm, their time is up (…) There will be an iron fist and justice for the fascists and the violent ones.”
On Sunday morning, social media showed large crowds gathering to vote at polling stations.
Twenty minutes after polling stations opened at 6 a.m., Maduro voted and said he would only abide by the special bulletins issued by the electoral authority.
“The electoral referee’s word is sacred and I will ensure that it is respected. And I call on the ten presidential candidates to respect, to make others respect and to publicly declare that they will respect the results,” he said after voting.
Opposition leaders, for their part, have highlighted the massive participation and called on Venezuelans to put an end to Chavismo at the polls.
The winning candidate will take over the Venezuelan government six months after the elections, so if the opposition wins, all scenarios are open and the process of a potential transition is expected to be tortuous.
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