Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia said on Monday that Nidal The Venezuelan opposition is not partisanOn the contrary, it is about defending democratic civilization against a regime that tries to suppress it.
It is not a partisan battle or an ideological competition. It is the defense of democratic civilization against those who would replace it with fear“Corruption and deception,” he said in a video speech at the Berlin Freedom Conference, which brings together liberal opposition movements from all over the world.
Gonzalez, who was presented as president-elect of Venezuela by his rival Leopoldo Lopez, stressed that during more than “two decades of darkness” the Chavez regime and Nicolas Maduro’s regime has ‘systematically insulted human dignity’.
He said: “We are talking about thousands of prisoners of conscience, teenagers imprisoned for protesting, women who have been subjected to inhumane treatment, families torn apart by exile and persecution, and a nation whose regime is trying to silence our voices, suppress our voices, and extinguish our hope.”
However, according to Gonzalez, that’s all He failed to destroy the conviction of the Venezuelan opposition That outside democracy there can be no human rights or freedom, and that justice cannot exist if authority is above the law.
“When the rule of law collapses… Freedom itself is in the spotlightHe confirmed.
The opposition leader expressed his conviction about this The Maduro regime will be replaced by a democratic government Sooner or later, he urged, “to build a world in which there will no longer be a wall dividing human beings into free and oppressed.”
In response to a question from Lopez, González Urrutia announced his willingness to lead a hypothetical democratic transition in Venezuela.
“We have a team of many people who follow us, and a group of technicians who have prepared a detailed program and We will work on this from the first day of the transfer of power. “We will work for Venezuelans and fight for a decent government and respect for human rights,” he said.
After her intervention, a video message from the opposition leader was shown Maria Corina MachadoHe called for cooperation between all liberal opposition movements “in Iran, Belarus, Nicaragua, or Venezuela,” all of which are part of the same “front,” as he put it.
“Dictatorships may speak different languages, but they share the same weapons: fear, lies, and trying to make us feel alone,” declared this year’s Nobel Peace Prize winner.
“Our enemies cooperate: they share their weapons and their propaganda. We must also cooperate: we must share our courage, our knowledge, and our devotion to freedom. They build prisons, we build hope.” They spread fear, we spread peace, and peace always wins in the end.“, stated Machado.
(With information from EFE)
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