AREQUIPA, Peru – The Venezuelan dictator, Nicolás Maduro, assured this weekend in Caracas that he is preparing together with the allied regimes of Cuba and Nicaragua for armed struggle.
Maduro’s statements transcended as part of his appearance at the closing of the so-called International Antifascist World Festival “For a new world” and just one day after he carried out the Chavista coup d’état in Venezuela.
“Venezuela is preparing together with Cuba, together with Nicaragua, together with our older brothers in the world, for if one day we have to take up arms to defend the right to peace, the right to sovereignty and the historical rights of our country. , fight the battle and win it again,” said the dictator.
On January 10, Maduro took office as president of Venezuela without having shown the records proving his victory in the July 28 elections. Likewise, it closed the country’s airspace and prevented the entry of Edmundo González Urrutia, legitimately selected by Venezuelans with more than seven million votes to preside over the nation.
“We are not lukewarm leaders, we are the Bolivarian Revolution of the 21st century, let no one make a mistake with Venezuela, let no one make a mistake with us,” warned Maduro, who also stressed that “if the case arose” he would respond to “fascism with weapons.” in hand and with armed struggle.”
The situation in Venezuela has become even more tense since the criticized swearing-in of the Chavista leader . Opposition leader María Corina Machado warned on Friday that “Maduro will not be able to govern by force a Venezuela that decided to be free” and stressed that, despite the repression, Venezuelans have lost fear: “Yesterday we showed that we are not afraid and I know that there will be many more of us on the streets of Venezuela and the world,” he said.
Machado also referred to the increase in security operations and denounced arbitrary arrests after the protests: “We all know that starting today [10 de enero] He will increase the pressure until he makes Maduro understand that this is over. Yesterday the regime deployed brutal repression, persecuting and detaining more than 20 Venezuelans (…). They are our heroes and we are going to free them all,” he said.
For his part, González Urrutia concluded his tour of the United States and Latin America this Thursday in the Dominican Republic. “We have been in permanent communication during his extraordinary tour of nations in our hemisphere where he has been received with the honors of head of state,” said María Corina Machado, who also insisted that the conditions will be met “in the near future.” so that the politician returns to Venezuela and is sworn in before the legitimate institutions.
At another point in his speech, Machado referred to the arrest he suffered last Thursday when leaving the opposition demonstration in Chacao, in Caracas, and assured that he was “fine,” although he has “strong pain and bruises” on his body. The opposition leader stated that, when she was leaving the protest site on a motorcycle, she was intercepted by “armed members of the Bolivarian National Police” who were carrying “long weapons.”
“I was abruptly pulled off the motorcycle and [los efectivos de la Policía] They put me on another, in the middle of two men. “That’s how they are: they attack a woman from behind,” said the opponent. “Suddenly they stopped and told me that they had orders for me to leave,” he added.
According to Machado, this fact “demonstrates the deep contradictions that exist within the regime.” “Their erratic actions are yet another demonstration of how they are divided inside,” he said.
