The first vice president of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela, Diosdado Cabello, pointed out as the main concern of President Nicolás Maduro the issue of the salary of Venezuelan workers.
During his program Con el Mazo Dando carried out this Wednesday, the leader questioned the pronouncements of opposition sectors of the country regarding the recent protests led by a group from the education sector that demand better salaries.
“Some gentlemen came out there talking about their support for the protests, but when the government was theirs they endorsed the human rights violations that were committed against workers when they went out to protests and demand better wages,” he said.
He criticized the fact that these opposition political sectors do not point out the economic difficulties that the sanctions imposed by the United States Government have meant for the State with the support of the radical sector of the Venezuelan opposition.
“There is a reality that people like (Oscar) Figuera (general secretary of the Communist Party of Venezuela) do not want to see that there are sanctions and that with their speech they have become agents of imperialism,” he said.
He indicated that the speech assumed by the communist leader “is disgusting” and maintained that Venezuela is the only country where the leadership of a communist party “defends the right and imperialism.”
He emphasized that the salary issue in Venezuela has been a permanent concern of President Maduro.
“If anyone in this country is concerned about the salary of Venezuelans, it is President Nicolás Maduro. There is no meeting where the president does not look for alternatives to guarantee workers’ wages,” he stated while recalling that as a consequence of the “sanctions” policy imposed by the United States, the country’s income reached almost zero, which affects the Government’s capacity for salary and investment issues.
“For every 100 dollars we receive, we drop to 1 and of course things have improved, but a little, it’s not that we are receiving 20, no, but we are improving and it will continue to improve,” he explained.
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Cabello also referred to the recent acts of violence carried out by followers of Jair Bolsonaro who tried to storm the institutions of the Federal State of Brazil.
He accused the United States government of being part of these actions, noting that “imperialism would be better off with a Bolsonaro than a humanist like Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva.
“President Lula has been in Brazil for a week and suddenly some sympathizers of former President Bolsonaro decided to take power and failed, and after they failed they went out to show solidarity with Lula and the people, but if they had been successful they would surely have said that the democratic channels functionary and therefore the President had had to resign because the people had demanded it in the streets. That would have been the discourse of the United States,” he maintained.
He reiterated that what happened in Peru is a coup against President Pedro Castillo, while he denounced the massacre promoted by the current government of Dina Boluarte in the face of the demonstrations taking place in this nation.
“In Peru what happens is a massacre. They gave Castillo a coup d’état, whom we are not going to defend because he made many mistakes, and that government has already had more than 40 murders that are known and the OAS does not say anything, the Inter-American court does not say anything, the Criminal court does not says nothing,” he denounced.
It drew attention that, in addition to what happened in Peru and Brazil, in Bolivia right-wing sectors tried to promote destabilizing actions with protests that were dissipated with the arrest of Governor Luis Fernando Camacho, who is accused of his participation in the coup against then Bolivian President Evo Morales.
“Everyone said that when Camacho was put in jail the country was going to burn down, but it was Camacho who wanted to set the country on fire, but justice acted and the country is already calm,” he said.
He criticized that these extremist right-wing leaders, when they are the subject of legal actions, allege health conditions.
“Bolsonaro and that he is sick there in the United States. Those on the right when they know that justice is looking for them gives them everything, Camacho also got sick. That reminds me here of (Antonio) Ledezma and many others who played dying, ”he highlighted.
