Santo Domingo.- Several senators condemned the criticism made by the Venezuelan government against the president Luis Abinaderfollowing the seizure of the presidential plane of the president of that country, Nicolás Maduro, by the United States, while the aircraft was in the Dominican Republic.
Cristóbal Venerado Castillo, representative of the province Herd Majorfor the ruling Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRM), considered that the attacks should be directed against the United States, and not against President Abinader.
The legislator referred to the criticism launched by Maduro against the Dominican president.
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Maduro called Abinader a thief, saying, “They left me without a plane, the thief of the Dominican president.”
“You hear someone talking about a thief, a man (Nicolás Maduro) who just stole the elections in Venezuela. Maduro is the real thief…, a big thief, a pickpocket, a bandit,” said Castillo, during the session of the Senate of the Republic on Wednesday.
He asked Venezuelan officials “not to mess with Abinader,” since, he said, “he is a hard-working man, and deserves respect.”
“Don’t mess with our president, because the Dominican Republic is respected. Why don’t you attack the United States, which seized his plane?” asked the legislator.
Senator for La Vega, Ramón Rogelio Genao, also spoke on the subject, defining the Venezuelan president as “an election thief.”
