The first vice president of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), Diosdado Cabello, refuted the statement issued in a television interview by Henrique Capriles Radonski, in which he demanded that the official sector present evidence on the responsibility of sectors of the opposition in acts of corruption. committed in the Citgo company.
During the red awning press conference offered this Monday, Cabello stated that “not only is there concrete evidence, but there are accusations between them.”
He added in this regard that it is evident that the Primero Justicia party -led by Capriles- has control of the oil company, with the figure of Dinorah Figuera, to whom -he recalled- the United States Government recently handed over 346 million dollars, belonging to to the nation.
Cabello did not hesitate to predict that this “money is going to be stolen”, and in this sense, he referred to complaints from the opposition itself, including that of Yon Goicoechea and Ismael García.
He also recalled that Primero Justicia was involved in acts of corruption at the Monomeros company, when with money from his estate they financed an anniversary party for one of its main leaders: Tomás Guanipa.
“They are rascals, and Capriles is part of that corporation that robs our country,” he said.
Guaidó did not know what to say
When asked about the recent interview conducted in a United States media outlet with former deputy Juan Guaidó, about the origin of his resources to live in that country with his family, Cabello ironically responded that “he did not understand what he said, he did not I had the translators there; what a mess with such a simple answer.
Guaidó did not know what to answer,” he said. “They asked me if he was an engineer, he has never worked in his life,” he concluded. On this subject, he recalled a similar case that occurred with the former president of Petróleos de Venezuela, Rafael Ramírez. “So a corrupt man who was with us and lives in a palace in Italy said that he lived off the pension and the profits that they had paid him in PDVSA and with that he bought a palace in Italy,” he said. Finally, he sentenced “that’s how the corrupt live. What do they live on?”
