Venezuela’s socialist dictator Nicolas Maduro on Wednesday accused Venezuela’s “opposition” of “terrorists and extremists” operating “outside the constitution and the law.”
President Maduro’s condemnation was aimed specifically at the Unity Platform, the latest version of Venezuela’s “opposition” coalition, which the socialist government met in Barbados last year for negotiations and which it said would be “free and fair” by 2024. The aim was to culminate in the presidential election.
Maduro’s government has repeatedly broken the Barbados agreement, sticking to a ban on political opponents and launching a new crackdown on dissidents. The Barbados Accord was carried out under the watchful eye of left-wing US President Joe Biden’s administration.
In return for the Maduro regime’s vague promises, and even though Maduro has shown no apparent interest in fulfilling his promises, Biden gave the socialist regime generous oil and gas sanctions relief packages. Be expected It expires in April.
President Maduro denounces opposition parties as “terrorism” in speech at opening ceremony of Venezuela’s 2024 judicial year, and Venezuela’s Supreme Court upholds ban on front-runner for opposition presidential candidate Maria Colina Machado from holding public office The decision was made.
Former Venezuelan opposition lawmaker maria corina machado A press conference will be held in Caracas on June 29, 2018. Machado on Friday denied any involvement in an alleged military conspiracy to overthrow Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro (FEDERICO PARRA/AFP via Getty Images).
“That decision is the product of an impeccable dialogue process promoted by us, the Bolivarian government, a persistent dialogue process between the master and his followers,” President Maduro said, referring to the United States and the Platform of Unity, respectively. .
Venezuela’s socialist government has consistently accused dissidents of being U.S. “patrons,” a tactic shared by other regional dictatorships such as Cuba and Nicaragua.
Nicolas Maduro is a Plataforma Unitaria carifica, a combination of “terrorist” and “constitutional and political extremist.” https://t.co/cSlRNA97OE pic.twitter.com/Ltg3g3ygtW
— Monitor Leamos (@monitoreamos) January 31, 2024
The socialist dictator took the opportunity to insult Machado. branding as “Mrs.” Hatred, Mrs. Tantrums, Mrs. Violence. ”
Venezuelan electoral authorities have not yet announced the date for the next “free and fair” election, but President Maduro recently announced Lawmakers from the administration are expected to begin drawing up a draft election schedule next week. The socialist dictator repeated The decision to suspend Machado is poll The policy, published last year, would easily defeat him in an actual election, but it is “firm” and cannot be overturned.
In apparent contradiction to President Maduro’s statements, his longtime protégé and alleged drug lord Diosdado Cabello was suggested on him con el mazo dando (“Bang with a mallet”) Socialist TV program reported that a fake election event could take place in March.
“If things continue like this, the election will be in March,” Cabello said on Wednesday. “As I jokingly said last week, we’re going to keep going at this pace.”
Cabello also dismissed the Biden administration’s threat to reimpose sanctions in April if the Maduro regime does not abide by the terms of the deal, and told Francisco Palmieri, the acting U.S. ambassador to Colombia and special envoy at the Venezuelan Affairs Authority (VAU), that “Let’s go eat,” he urged. A hill of sweets. ”
“Go and eat a pile of sweets, Paco Palmieri and your combo,” Cabello said. “And as Jorge. [Rodríguez, head of the National Assembly] “If you want to apply sanctions, do it already,” he said.
Like Cabello, Venezuelan Foreign Minister Ivan Gil on Wednesday night dismissed the Biden administration’s threat to reinstate sanctions:
¡ #Venezuela No, la chantasia nadi! Decadante of imperialism, choose a new pueblo to protect the dignity of EEUU.
Los ingelenses mo esta du nidense, new fundiran en el fracaso. Hemos derotado todo tipo de agreciones et ingerencias… https://t.co/jKHVA7HeV2
— Ivan Gil (@yvangil) January 31, 2024
“No one will threaten Venezuela! Once again, our people will give decadent American imperialism a lesson in dignity,” Gil’s message said.
“American interference attempts will again fail. We will defeat all kinds of aggression and interference and continue to triumph under the sacred mantle of the Constitution,” he continued.
Christian K. Caruso is a Venezuelan writer who chronicles life under socialism. You can follow him on Twitter here.
