The President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, rejected the position taken by the former candidate of the Venezuelan right, Edmundo González Urrutia, when he issued false statements about alleged coercion by members of the government, to sign a letter in which he recognizes Maduro’s victory in the last presidential elections.
The head of state said from the installation of the Council of Economy Chapter Export, from La Guaira, that “no one can claim their own clumsiness in self-defense,” stating a maxim of law, and then adding that “no one can claim their own cowardice and their own betrayal of their followers, in self-defense,” in relation to the statements of González Urrutia.
He pointed out that behind González Urrutia’s statement, which he labeled “cowardly,” there is a strategy to mount a version of Guaidó part 2, and “if the first one was bad, the second one is worse.” He added that when history happens as a tragedy, it repeats itself as a comedy. “In this case, tragicomedy,” he said.
In his statement, Maduro questioned the fact that the opposition member who has taken refuge in Spain declared that he acted under duress, when he had repeatedly stated that he did so voluntarily. “Who is more coerced or persecuted? González Urrutia versus a lady like Delcy Rodríguez or Nicolás Maduro, who has had drones, missiles and sanctions launched against him around the world?” he asked, and then answered: “And have you seen me cower?”
He reflected that politics in Venezuela is a “question of values,” and then concluded: “I feel sorry for you, González Urrutia, that you, who asked me for mercy, do not keep your word.”
He concluded by inviting the country’s productive sectors to move forward and leave aside the anti-Venezuelan way of doing politics. “Let’s not waste any more time on those people, because at the end of the day what matters is the work we do for the Venezuelan people,” he stressed.
