For María Corina Machado, Venezuela is advancing “irreversibly” towards democracy, and she highlighted that the Venezuelan opposition had never been “in a position of this level of strength” like the current one.
The opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner, María Corina Machado, assured this Friday the 30th that the announcement of a general amnesty law is “a product of the real pressure” that the United States government has exerted since last January 3, when the capture of Nicolás Maduro was completed during a US military operation that attacked several points in Caracas, La Guaira and Miranda.
«When repression is lost and fear disappears, that releases the democratic forces that have united a country… I have no doubt that when that happens it will be the end of tyranny. It is not something that the regime voluntarily wanted to do, but rather it is the product of real pressure from the United States government. And I hope that the more than 700 prisoners who still remain in the torture centers in Venezuela can be with their families very soon,” said Machado during his participation via teleconference at the Hay Festival in Cartagena de Indias.
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Delcy Rodríguez proposed a general amnesty law to free political prisoners, covering the events from 1999 to date. He also ordered the closure of the Sebin Helicoide police facilities, called a “torture center” by international organizations.
For Machado, Venezuela is moving “irreversibly” towards democracy, and he highlighted that the Venezuelan opposition had never been “in a position of this level of strength” like the current one.
“Events are accelerating in recent days, in the last hours,” the opposition leader reiterated.
For this reason, the opposition leader stressed the importance of “building a reasonable schedule that establishes milestones to be achieved” to give peace of mind to Venezuelans who are waiting for the political and economic changes to take place. “We know that what is coming is a challenging, complex, delicate auction, but the destination is a democratic Venezuela,” he insisted.
According to the leader, Venezuelans are “writing a new history” with an “orderly, civic transition,” in which they have had the “indispensable support of the United States Government, without which this would not have been possible,” but society “is not going to let its freedom be taken away.”
🔴 María Corina Machado, at Hay Festival, about the amnesty law:
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«It is not going to do it, we have not come this far so that they impose on us to stay with a small transition, in half. No sir, we want all, full, complete freedom for all Venezuelans and that is what it means until the end,” he expressed.
Likewise, he said that “there is no way for a person who has been co-responsible for this tragedy to generate trust or stability. That doesn’t exist. Delcy Rodríguez is incapable of generating any type of military, security or policy of any nature that would allow a transition.
The Nobel Prize winner recognized that dismantling “this structure is tremendously complex” and that is why “there is anguish” among Venezuelans, but also the understanding that progress is being made and “the moment will come for the people of Venezuela to express themselves, concentrate and enforce the enormous popular mandate that we expressed on July 28, 2024.”
He also maintained that an eventual political transition cannot be limited to temporary responses to the humanitarian emergency, but must aim at a structural transformation of the country. “We are not asking for palliative measures to alleviate a humanitarian crisis only, but rather structural solutions that allow the reconstruction of republican institutions devastated for more than two decades,” he stated.
María Corina Machado pointed out that Venezuela has the necessary resources to assume the costs of a deep reconstruction and to offer a horizon of opportunities to the population. “Venezuela can finance the costs of its reconstruction and offer opportunities for millions of Venezuelans to voluntarily return to their country.”
With information from EFE agency
*Journalism in Venezuela is carried out in a hostile environment for the press with dozens of legal instruments in place to punish the word, especially the laws “against hate”, “against fascism” and “against the blockade.” This content was written taking into consideration the threats and limits that, consequently, have been imposed on the dissemination of information from within the country.
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