The Organization of American States (OAS) He called this Saturday to “peace” among Venezuelansbefore the start of the marches that will take place in the country following the electoral fraud committed by the Nicolás Maduro dictatorship last Sunday.
Through a statement, the General Secretariat of the organization requested that today’s day “may it be for reconciliation and justice,” and “may messages of hate be banished and may those who have sown fear, repression and death find no echo in anyone.”
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“Let every Venezuelan man, woman, who expresses himself in the street today find only an echo of peace, a peace that reflects the spirit of democratic coexistencewhich is the only lasting one,” the text adds.
According to the OAS, “the Venezuelan people have paid a high price in hunger, misery, migration, disease, political imprisonment, torture, death like no other people in the hemisphere in this 21st century.” It added: “Let the actors of the international community who have been lenient with these crimes ensure that they do not happen again. Let there be a profound meaning of peace in the actions of every Venezuelan man and woman, let there be no place for a single repressor or a single repressed person. The ‘peace’ of repression, fear, terror, is not peace.”
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The OAS statement
Finally, he concluded: “Today we urge that there not be a single more political prisoner, nor one more tortured, nor one more disappeared, nor one more murdered.; Venezuela does not deserve that, it deserves a return to prosperity for the people, for the sovereignty that resides in that people today to be recognized by all. A return to peace in democracy.”
Venezuela prepares for new protests this Saturday, after the ratification by the Chavista CNE of electoral fraud which declared dictator Maduro the winner, while a growing number of countries recognize his opposition rival as the real winner.
Both Maduro and the opposition, led by Maria Corina Machado and its presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutiacalled on their supporters to demonstrate this weekend in response to Sunday’s controversial vote.
“We are all meeting with our families, with our children, grandchildren, grandparents in all the cities of Venezuela (…) because we are going to pay tribute to each one of those heroes who asserted and defended the will of the Venezuelan people and who are now being persecuted by the regime,” said the opposition leader.
“Now we are going to get paid, that is why we must remain firm, organized and mobilized.with the pride of having achieved a historic victory on July 28 and the awareness that we will also go all the way to collect our pay,” he said.
For his part, the Secretary General of the Organization of American States, Luis Almagro, urged on Friday Immediately verify the voting records obtained by the Venezuelan opposition since the electoral authority has not presented the documentation certifying Maduro’s alleged victory.
In a statement, the OAS General Secretariat denounced that the delay in the publication of the minutes by the Venezuelan National Electoral Council, which early Monday morning proclaimed Maduro the winner with more than 51% of the votes without providing any evidence, is “the longest in the history of the region.”
Almagro regretted that “These minutes were supposed to be made public on Sunday evening, but as of today, Friday, they have not yet been published.”
For this reason, he requested that the verification of the minutes published by the majority opposition bloc on a website begin immediately, which would supposedly indicate a crushing victory for its candidate, Edmundo González, who has the support of opposition leader María Corina Machado, who was disqualified from the elections.
“It is necessary and essential that the verification of the minutes begins with the available material, until the government and official actors can produce their own,” said the former Uruguayan foreign minister.
