Dávila and Marquina agree that the letter sent to the US puts sanctions as the main obstacle to solving the crisis
The politicians of Acción Democrática and Primero Justicia, Williams Dávila and Alfonso Marquina, expressed their criticism on social networks against the group of 25 Venezuelans who asked, through an open letter, the president of the United States, Joe Biden, to relax the sanctions and allow the return of transnational oil companies to reactivate the economy in order to improve the quality of life of Venezuelans.
Davila, through Twitterbelieves that the letter sent to the US seeks to blame the sanctions imposed by Washington as the main cause of the country’s crisis and not President Nicolás Maduro, who in his opinion is “exonerated” in the text as being directly responsible.
Therefore, the parliamentarian of the National Assembly elected in December 2015 assures that the letter puts the government presided over by Biden in a dilemma over whether the lifting of these penalties really resolves the national crisis and stresses that in this text “there is no It records that it is the dictatorship that ended the constitutional order.”
Williams Dávila underlines that “the causes of authoritarianism and populism in the world are based on thinking in economic terms and not in the common good.”
With all due respect to the signatories, the letter prepared by academics and intellectuals, addressed to @POTUS intends to prosecute sanctions as the worst evil of the complex humanitarian crisis plaguing Venezuela, exonerating Maduro of being the direct cause of this tragedy
— Williams Davila (@williamsdavila) April 14, 2022
Today the causes of authoritarianism and populism in the world are based on thinking in economic terms and not in the common good.
— Williams Davila (@williamsdavila) April 14, 2022
For his part, Alfonso Marquina issued a statement -which was also broadcast on Twitter– considers that those who signed the document submitted to President Joe Biden are suffering from “retrograde amnesia or “selective memory” by assuring that the sanctions are not the causes, but the consequences of the problems that afflict Venezuelans.
He highlighted in his four-page letter that since 1999 state and private companies have been “destroyed” by those in power such as PDVSA, Sidor, Alcasa, Owens Illinois, Alimentos Kellog’s, Banorte, Plumrose, Fama de América, RCTV, among others.
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In addition, he recalled that countless properties have been expropriated, lack of investment in the hydroelectric plant installed in Guri, Bolívar state; problems in the supply of drinking water; in the health system, among other things.
Alfonso Marquina said that although nobody wants US sanctions, the worst punishment that can be in Venezuela is that the current administration of the country continues. In that sense, he supports that they be eliminated only if there is “freedom, democracy and respect for human rights.”
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Retrograde Amnesia or Selective Memory, I don’t know how to describe what has been suffered by those who have signed a document in which they point out that, by lifting the sanctions imposed by the civilized and democratic world, on the Regime that violates Human Rights… ?– Alfonso Marquina (@DipMarquina) April 16, 2022
some considerations that come to mind today pic.twitter.com/dGFFS6TJBn
– Alfonso Marquina (@DipMarquina) April 16, 2022
A group of 25 Venezuelans who oppose the administration of Nicolás Maduroamong whom are journalists, NGO leaders, trade unionists, economists and health professionals, among others, sent a letter addressed to the President of the United States, Joe Biden, and to other authorities in that country to ease the sanctions and allow the return of transnational oil companies to Venezuela.
In the letter, published by journalist Joshua Goodman of the Associated Press, this group calls on the US government to continue promoting “substantive and productive” negotiations to resolve the crisis in our country and urges the parties to resume meetings in Mexico without delay.
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