Since he assumed power, the Paraguayan President Santiago Peña has denounced the “authoritarian” Venezuelan drift and broke diplomatic relations with the administration of Nicolás Maduro, by maintaining his position to recognize Edmundo González as constitutional president of the country after the elections of July 2024
The president of Paraguay, Santiago Peña, denounced on Wednesday 24 before the General Assembly of the United Nations the “systematic” violation of human rights in Venezuela, an issue that he described as “truly alarming.”
During Your intervention In the 80 General Assembly, which is held in New York (United States), Peña said that in Venezuela “systematic violations of human rights and fundamental freedoms” are committed, as well as “persecution of political leaders.”
Since he assumed power, Santiago Peña has denounced the “authoritarian” Venezuelan drift and broke diplomatic relations with the administration of Nicolás Maduro, by maintaining his position to recognize Edmundo González as constitutional president of the country after the July 2024 elections.
On August 25, the Paraguayan government asked its citizens Do not travel to Venezuela Due to the “delicate institutional and security situation” that, they said, is lived in the country. Likewise, last month the designation of the so -called “Los Soles poster” was formalized as an international terrorist group, in tune with the designation made by the United States at the end of July.
President Peña warned on Wednesday before the UN General Assembly that there is a “crisis of democracy” that “is not resolved with a hard hand, nor censorship, nor authoritarianism, much less violence. We must resist these attractive imposters ».
He added that in Nicaragua there is “persecution of political opponents”, expulsion of religious orders and dispossession of nationality to Nicaraguans.
In addition, Santiago Peña requested a “determined and coordinated action” of the UN in Haiti, which is besieged by the violence of armed bands. “Paraguay knows it and is ready to help the Haitian people, who can no longer wait.”
The Paraguayan also rejected authoritarianism and intolerance that he said, translate into “political crimes”, referring to the murders of Colombian senator Miguel Uribe and American activist Charlie Kirk.
Peña said that “evil, radical ideologization, intolerance, are unfortunately real”, stating that it is still “shocked” by those called “political attacks” against Uribe and Kirk.
For Peña, both “instead of going to violence to impose their ideas” resorted to “free, open, frank debate” and, despite this, they were killed.
«It is not time for shy, gentlemen. Or we are on the right side, of peace and reason, or we are with violence and intolerance, he said.
The Paraguayan leader said that “political violence is immoral, intolerable and deeply harmful,” so he called “rejecting her without nuances.”
With information from EFE agency
*Journalism in Venezuela is exercised in a hostile environment for the press with dozens of legal instruments arranged for the punishment of the word, especially the laws “against hatred”, “against fascism” and “against blockade.” This content was written taking into consideration the threats and limits that, consequently, have been imposed on the dissemination of information from within the country.
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