Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado has blamed Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro for the fallout from the US military deployment in the Caribbean, which has already left more than 80 dead, since he was offered to leave power but refused. “It’s all we see happening Maduro’s responsibility alone And his system“, the opposition leader blamed in an interview with Norwegian radio station NRK.
Machado accused the government of declaring “state terrorism” against the Venezuelan people and the rest of the countries of the region. He added: “When we won the elections by a landslide, we offered Maduro and the regime an opportunity Negotiated solution, transition with guarantees. They refused“, said the opponent who supports Washington’s pressure on the Venezuelan president and his inner circle.
“It is time for Maduro to understand that he must resign.”Machado has dodged the question of whether he supports US ground intervention in Venezuela. When asked how support for these US pressure measures, including bombings that left dozens dead, was compatible with receiving the Nobel Peace Prize, Machado said what was recognized was his “fight for democracy,” without which there can be no peace.
The opposition member said a week before the awards ceremony in the Norwegian capital, Oslo, whose attendance was not guaranteed for fear of the measures that the Venezuelan government might take: “I am struggling to bring peace to my country, but we have learned that to achieve peace you need democracy.” “It would be the greatest honor of my life.”he expressed. The Attorney General’s Office warned that she could be considered a fugitive if she left the country due to several investigations it had opened. “I want to assure all Venezuelans that he will return,” he promised, if he is able to attend the awards ceremony.
Albaris calls for resolving the crisis “peacefully”
On the other hand, Foreign Minister José Manuel Albarez stated on Wednesday that the crisis in Venezuela “must be resolved by peaceful means” and that Spain will not “do that.”Don’t light a fire “With regard to a sister country in Latin America,” in the midst of tensions between Caracas and the United States.
“We have a firm position with Venezuela. The crisis in Venezuela It must be resolved by peaceful meansa democratic and above all dialogical and truly Venezuelan solution. You will never find Spain raising any fire in relation to a sister country in Latin America, whatever it may be.”
Albares added that Spain “It will always be next to the solutions discussedPeaceful and democratic.” He added, “What we want for the Venezuelan people, exactly the same as what we want for all the brotherly peoples of Latin America, is the same thing we want for the Spanish people: peace, democracy and social justice.” Moreover, he noted that Monitoring the situation in Venezuela “closely” It is “one of the issues that now takes up the most time in every day of your life.”
Asked whether he thought other NATO member states would support him Military intervention The US representative in Venezuela, the head of Spanish diplomacy responded that the Latin American country “is not within NATO’s orbit or NATO’s actions, and will not be discussed at this time.”
“I insist, and I believe that is what we should all aspire to for the Venezuelan people Find a democratic solution to your crisiswere discussed and negotiated between Venezuelans. I talk about this with the government of Venezuela and with the opposition. “I do it publicly, I do it from the first day I was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs of Spain, which respects international law and enjoys peace.”
Albarez stressed that Venezuela is a “brotherly people” and that in the Latin American country “there is a huge colony of Spaniards,” while there is also “a large colony of Venezuelans in Spain.” “The bonds that bind us are brotherly bonds. “When I think of Venezuela, and the Venezuelan people, as with the rest of the sister peoples of Latin America, I think of our brothers, and I want for them exactly the same thing that I want for the Spanish people,” he insisted.