On board the papal plane, Sep 13 (EFE).- The Pope invited this Friday to “dialogue” and “make peace” in Venezuela and added that «dictatorships» They are useless and sooner or later “end badly”when asked what message he would give to that country in the current situation, after the elections, at the press conference on the plane returning from his tour of Asia and Oceania.
In any case, Francis was cautious in his response, saying that he had not been following the situation in recent days.
“The message I give to the rulers is to dialogue and “make peace”he replied, before adding: “Dictatorships are useless and end badly sooner or later.”
He also reiterated his call for “people to do everything to find a path to peace in Venezuela».
“I cannot give a political opinion because I do not know the details, but I know that the bishops have spoken and their message is the one that counts,” he added.
Venezuelan bishops have asked the president on several occasions Nicolas Maduro to show the electoral records because “ignoring the popular sovereignty manifested through voting is morally unacceptable, as it seriously deviates from truth and justice.”
While the Pope was in Asia, the Venezuelan opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia, He arrived in Spain as a political asylum seeker after a court in his country issued an arrest warrant against him following the disclosure of electoral records that would prove his victory in the presidential elections last year. July 28th.
