The President of the Republic, Nicolás Maduro, requested as a sole requirement to return to Mexico’s dialogue with the opposition sector of the country that is part of the Unitary Platform, the delivery of the 3.2 billion dollars agreed for social investment in November 2022 .
“If someone wants the political negotiations with the opposition to return to Mexico (…) they demand that the government of the United States (USA) deposit the 3,200 million kidnapped dollars, which are in the Venezuelan accounts abroad,” he emphasized. stressing that this will be a condition sine qua non to return to dialogue with the oppositions that make up the Unitary Platform. If there is no compliance with the Mexico agreement, forget about that path, we are talking about justice, because if you sign an agreement it is to comply with it, nobody forced Gerardo Blyde to sign that agreement, nor Tomás Guanipa, nor Stalin González, nor Aquiles Moreno,” warned Maduro.
He recalled that on November 26, 2022, Venezuela signed a social agreement for 3.2 billion dollars for social investment during Mexico’s dialogues with the Unitary Platform, whose funds would be administered by the UN.
Unitary platform pro gringa
Maduro recalled that the agreement with the Venezuelan opposition in Mexico was boycotted by the United States government, by this disastrous character named James Story, “who has done so much damage to relations between the United States and Venezuela, and to the opposition as well, he He believes he is a kind of proconsul and acts as the owner of the opposition”.
“The Unitary Platform represents the United States, it is pro gringos. They don’t even go to the bathroom without the permission of the gringos and that’s very unfortunate because they’re politicians, they don’t respect themselves and that’s sad. They do not move without permission from James Story and they pretend to be the government in the country, they assure that they have the leadership and power in the country,” said President Maduro.
“I have no doubt that Juan Guaidó’s intemperate, abrupt, abrupt, abusive and imbecile visit to Bogotá, who is behind it is James Story, he does everything against the interests of Venezuela,” he commented.
On the other hand, the national president rebuked the opponent Gerardo Blyde, chief negotiator of the Unitary Platform, so that he does not allow himself to be “fooled” by the new agreements reached in Bogotá.
“Do not let yourself fall for coba, there is no way for us to return to Mexico if you do not comply with the signatures and deposit the 3,200 million dollars that we have agreed between you and us, do not be fooled,” he brandished.
international conference
During the second broadcast of the ‘Con Maduro +’ program, the head of state commented that the International Conference on Venezuela, which will be held this Tuesday in Bogotá (Colombia), is for “respect for sovereignty, independence and self-determination”. from the country.
Maduro said that this is a conference to seek the lifting of all sanctions, “without conditioning of any kind on Venezuela, we do not accept less at that Bogota Conference,” he stressed.
He recalled that it is necessary to lift all sanctions so that Venezuela has commercial freedom, financial freedom, economic freedom, of its normal activity, to be able to recover everything that must be recovered in the economic, productive, so that the blackmail, the coercion, the permanent aggression on our economy, on our social life, ends.
In addition, he reminded the government delegation led by Jorge Rodríguez that the international meeting should “seek the lifting of all sanctions, without conditions of any kind.”
In this regard, the chief plenipotentiary for dialogue, Jorge Rodríguez, ratified that “Venezuela has been very clear with the opposition sectors,” and that the government delegation “has five points to bring to the effect of promoting dialogue among Venezuelans.” .
The most prominent of them is the lifting of all the Unilateral Coercive Measures, “illegitimate and illegal that have been imposed against Venezuela since 2015” and that amount to almost 1,000 sanctions.
“I think the most important element of this conference that President (Gustavo) Petro has convened has to do with testing whether what is called the international community is not going to succumb, as they have done on other occasions, to the ambivalence, to a speech where they say they support dialogue between Venezuelans, but in their executions they act completely differently,” added Rodríguez.
