“80% of Venezuelans are against the sanctions,” said the president of the National Assembly, Jorge Rodriguez, from the Legislative Palace in a television interview broadcast this Monday, in which he discussed various current political issues. Venezuelan.
“80% of Venezuelans are against the sanctions and these people, from the North American right, such as Yon Goicoechea or Juan Guaidó, still dare to insist that the restrictions against Venezuela be maintained. This country has never sanctioned others, since the oil boom occurred until the governments of Hugo Chávez and Nicolás Maduro, it has been a safe supplier for the US. But we are not anyone’s backyard, we are not with the Monroe Doctrine,” he said.
Regarding unilateral coercive measures, he pointed out that currently everyone knows the consequences they cause, and emphasized that “in addition to the theft of our assets, they denied us the possibility of opening accounts and acquiring cards abroad, this has been the imposition of madness, of psychosis».
In the same way, he pointed out that, despite the fierce aggression against the economy, Venezuela continues to work in the search for its well-being. “In 2021 we began to see the recovery of the economy and in 2023 we will continue to make progress,” he said.
Healing process for economic recovery
“We are in a process of healing the wounds to advance the economic recovery of the country,” said the president of the AN, continuing with the theme.
“In this year 2023 the recovery of income is an important significance in improving the quality of life of the people.” On the subject of economic recovery, he also highlighted that for the first time there is a contribution of dollars from the private sector.
“I am sure that a gradual process of the economic recovery of the country is coming. Of that, I am sure,” he asserted.
Similarly, the deputy highlighted the measures taken by President Maduro. “The new proposals made by President Nicolás Maduro are aimed at the recovery of the social well-being of all Venezuelans. That is the objective!” said Rodríguez.
Similarly, Jorge Rodríguez acknowledged the willingness of President Nicolás Maduro “to sit down to negotiate, to dialogue with the different oppositions.”
Damages caused by sanctions
Rodríguez maintained that there was not even a previous study of damages by the opposition extremist sector when requesting sanctions for Venezuela.
“They took the country’s money, its economy, its resources. The United States abrogates the condition of being the gendarme of the world. Venezuela has never attacked any country in the region. We have managed to prevent society from exploding into thousands of pieces, as a political sector wanted it to, “he commented.
Rodríguez commented that in the opposition “there is a political intention that Venezuelans are submerged in sadness, melancholy and despair because this produces political returns for certain sectors of Venezuelan politics that have bet on that to try to overthrow the Bolivarian government.” .
He explained that if the policy line of the Venezuelan right is reviewed in these 20 years of the Bolivarian revolution, that has clearly been the intention.
“It is not true that we are not meeting the needs. Regardless of the mistakes that may have been made, Venezuela has been brutally robbed. Yon Goicoechea (leader of Voluntad Popular) said that they stole 40,000 million dollars from us and they are not going to hand it over to the current government because they are going to use it when (they) go to government. I have not seen in the history of Venezuelan politics the greatest confession and impudence like this,” he asserted.
He denounced that the Venezuelan extreme right has received large resources from the United States government “in the midst of the most brutal blockade against Venezuela.”
“In addition to all the brutal blockade against Venezuela, they gave enormous resources to Leopoldo López, Juan Guaidó and Julio Borges… Maike Pompeo says that one billion dollars, the Democrats say that there are more than two billion dollars that Trump gave to these sectors of the opposition,” he said.
He assured that in addition to this financing, they assume that Monomeros was completely stolen, that they plundered it and from there they took millions and millions of dollars.
In this sense, he recalled that the one who initiated this process of brutal aggression against our nation was President Barack Obama, declaring Venezuela an unusual threat against the security of the United States, which he classified as outrageous.
In this regard, he commented that in Cuba the US government stretched the sanctions over time, however in Venezuela, in less than two years it applied 762 sanctions against Venezuela
Then, he stressed that all the “Donald Trump madness” came with Juan Guaidó and his allies, doing extreme damage to the country, stealing its resources without any kind of control.
When asked about Venezuela’s current relationship with the US, he indicated that “Venezuela has never, ever attacked any country on this continent; On the contrary, until the first years of the government of President Maduro, Venezuela was a safe supplier of oil for the United States.
He also pointed out that on March 5, 2022, senior officials from the Joen Biden government came to Venezuela to speak with President Maduro without having been summoned and the president received them with great respect.
“There was a very pleasant conversation where we were able to tell our truths and also progress was made on some elements. And President Maduro told them that Venezuela was ready to meet the energy needs that the US requires, he said.
However, Rodríguez assured that if the US government and the Venezuelan extreme right want to persist in that “outdated position that with the sanctions they are going to end this Bolivarian process, they are deeply mistaken.”
The shortcomings of the opposition
As for the Venezuelan opposition, he asserted that “they only recognize elections when you win them but not when they lose them.”
However, he pointed out that there is currently a sector that is in a process of reflection that generates conflict among other opponents.
He also highlighted the great deficiencies in the leadership of the Venezuelan opposition, without possible comparison to the political leaders of the fourth republic.
«If the opposition wants to win, it should do real politics and not from a false perspective. There is no human way in this universe that Leopoldo López reaches some kind of popularly elected position in Venezuela through the vote and he knows it. In the primaries with Carriles, he was in fourth place, he has never had, after he was mayor of Chacao, any kind of political prominence other than the entire propaganda apparatus that was set up around him. He is a very flat person politically, without many intellectual resources either, he is fine, he took a three-month course at Harvard, but he does not have a sufficient intellectual level
In Rodríguez’s opinion, the leadership of the current opposition not only does not have a sufficient intellectual level to assume any popularly elected position, but also lacks a level of statesmanship.
«Say what is said, Caldera’s head shook, Carlos Andrés Pérez was shrewd, cunning; Betancourt at least wrote books, but one would have to ask Leopoldo López what book he has written, Julio Borges, what pamphlet he has written. Guardó is politically illiterate, he reads it speaking and is agraphist, he does not know that after the subject comes the verb and the predicate, it is very difficult for him to recognize that, “he declared.
