The president in charge, Delcy Rodríguez, reported that to date 626 people have been released, highlighting that many anti-political sectors have not understood the moment and persist in manipulating and maneuvering with figures through lies.
During the installation meeting of the Program for Coexistence and Peace, Rodríguez also reported that next Monday he will have a phone call with the High Commissioner for the United Nations, Völker Turk, where he will request that the lists of released prisoners be verified through his office. “Enough of the lies that have led us to external consequences, enough of lying to our people through social networks, enough of these algorithms that seek to sow fear, terrorism and death,” Rodríguez stated forcefully. “There must be responsibility in the exercise of politics, which is why yesterday I called for the re-institutionalization of the exercise of politics.”
Likewise, he urged the members of the Coexistence and Peace program to work to isolate the sectors “of the anti-political right.” “We are fed up with these extremists and fascists who only seek to harm our people,” he said. “Our work must be very arduous through education and culture.”
He indicated that another of the relevant points of this legal instrument is to eradicate social, political, economic expressions that incite hatred, since they have led to “very dangerous situations for the country”, therefore, he urged in turn to promote programs of peace and coexistence in all sectors of Venezuela. Furthermore, he explained that actions and expressions filled with intolerance have “compromised national independence and sovereignty by kneeling and offering our country and our wealth.”
Call to dialogue
Rodríguez called on the president of the National Assembly, Jorge Rodríguez, as president of the Council of Sovereignty and Peace, to call for a meeting with all the political sectors of the country, coincident and divergent, political opponents and call for a true political dialogue, with concrete and immediate results. “It must be a Venezuelan dialogue where external orders are no longer imposed. Not from Washington, Bogotá or Madrid. No. A nationalized dialogue for the common good of Venezuela.
Justice system review
The president in charge said that “it opens the floodgates for reflection on the justice system in Venezuela. He invited all sectors, academic and non-academic, the communes and communal councils, the justices of the peace, the neighborhood movement to think about a criminal justice model where poverty is not penalized, it is an immediate request.
100 day program
At the installation ceremony of the Program for Coexistence and Peace, he asked its members to carry out a 100-day plan to consolidate stability and social harmony. To do this, they must make a map of violence and political, economic and social hatred. “It is necessary to do an assessment to determine where we are starting from, to determine where social justice is,” he expressed.
He stressed that the country is starting from an unprecedented economic aggression, with illegal, unilateral coercive measures, which have generated important social wounds in the country.
During the activity, Rodríguez read the composition of the Members of the Program for Coexistence and Peace:
- Coordination: Ernesto Villegas (General Coordinator) and Ana María Sanjuán (Executive Secretary).
- Executive Cabinet: Nuramy Gutiérrez (Health), Ángel Prado (Communes) and Larry Devoe (HR).
- Academic and Political Sector: Michael Penfold (IESA), Francisco Garcés (UCV), Génesis Garvett (Deputy) and Indira Urbaneja (Analyst).
- Private and Social Sector: Ricardo Cusanno (Fedecámaras), Gerson Gómez (Ridery), Lanking González (Neighborhood Movement), Gustavo Canchica (Justices of the Peace) and Miqueas Figueroa (Tiuna el Fuerte).
