A sector aligned with the left in Venezuela advocated this Tuesday for a political transition in the country without US intervention, in moments of tension due to the air-naval deployment ordered by Donald Trump in the Caribbean Seanear Venezuelan waters.
during the forum “Trump-Maduro negotiation: who benefits?”, Andres Calecacandidate for the opposition primaries in 2023 and leader of the Movement for Venezuela (MPV)told EFE the “undelayable need” for an orderly and political transition at peace.
proposed “a great national agreement” that allows a “political exit”considering that the country is experiencing a “catastrophic tie” caused by a government “incapable of governing” and for one opposition that has not managed to claim victory which he claims he obtained a year ago, in reference to the presidential elections that the CNE attributed to Maduro and that the opposition denounces as fraudulent.
“The opposition was immobilized by the fierce repression and the strategic confusion. We propose a broad social and political movement to force a transition,” said Caleca.
In his opinion, this transition should be a agreement between all opposition forces and government sectorsgiven that “there is no way to make a transition without sectors of the dominant coalition” willing to participate.
“There is no other way,” says the left
“There is no other way. The other way is to kill us or have a foreign invasion. We don’t want either of those things,” he concluded.
For its part, Neillay Andradeactivist Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV)stated that the solution to the political conflict It is not “democracy arriving on an aircraft carrier”in reference to the US military deployment, which Maduro denounces as a attempt to bring about a regime change.
Andrade pointed out that the PCV does not align with the “two poles” of the political dispute—Maduro and the opposition of María Corina Machado—and opted for a transition with new presidential elections, a new CNE, the release of political prisoners and the recovery of labor rights.
“We demand that the government make a change in its policywith emergency measures that allow the construction of a minimum floor for a common political sheet,” he said.
During the forum, Antonio Gonzalezhuman rights activist, assured that The United States seeks to “get out of hostile governments” like that of Venezuela and appropriate resources such as oilan argument also used by Maduro.
“On Trump’s agenda is regime changethe democracy and the human rightswhich are presented as the same thing but they are not“said González.
