In a video on the networks, they claim it is a “historical moment for the Venezuelan people” and “very important” for the movement
Representatives of the MST Youth went to Venezuela to accompany the (United Socialist Party of Venezuela, left) on Friday (10.Jan.2025).
The MST profile on X (formerly Twitter) a video with 3 members in Caracas. They claim to be a “moment history of the people Venezuelan” e “very important” for the Landless Rural Workers Movement.
Below, read the members’ full statements:
- Luz Marin – “Hello, Brazil, we are here, the MST Youth delegation. Today, in a historic moment for the Venezuelan people, the inauguration of President Maduro. We are here seeing the reality of the Venezuelan people, happy people, hardworking people, people who fight and defend their homeland with determination, so today is a day of great joy for us. To be living this experience. Here we have countries from all over the world, representing internationalism and the solidarity of peoples”;
- Pedro Reis – “It is a very important moment for us, in the MST, as we are exercising this principle of international solidarity, for which we are so grateful to the Venezuelan people for the help and contributions they made to the struggle of the people in Brazil”;
- Renata Menezes – “What we see is that the streets are taken over to carry out a popular inauguration of President Nicolás Maduro. This recognition of Brazilian social movements for this moment of important struggle, in the fight for the sovereignty of the people”.
Watch the video released by the MST (1min35s):
In his inauguration speech, Maduro declared that Venezuela is a democratic country and suggested reforming the Constitution. He also said that representatives from 125 countries attended the event – hosted by the ambassador in Caracas, Glivânia Maria de Oliveira.
The day before the inauguration, January 9, the opposition carried out acts against the Venezuelan president. They claim that the July 2024 election was rigged and that Edmundo González (Democratic Unitary Platform, center-right) would be the true winner of the election.
The leader of the opposition, María Corina, at the demonstration in Caracas.
At the end of the act, she and her team were persecuted by agents of the Chavista regime, an accusation that the government denies. It is not clear what actually happened.
Read what the opposition and government said about the episode:
- María Corina’s team – supporters of the opponent claim that she was “intercepted and knocked off her motorcycle” when leaving an anti-government demonstration in Chacao. She would have been “Forcibly detained”forced to record and videos and later released. The action would have lasted around 1h30;
- Maduro government – members of the regime claim that the supposed retention was nothing more than a “fake news” created to cover up the “failure” of the anti-Maduro demonstrations held on Thursday (9 January) in Venezuela.
VENEZUELA SOB MADURO
Venezuela lives under an autocracy headed by Nicholas Maduro62 years old. There is no freedom of the press. People can be arrested for “political crimes”. THE published in May 2021 (PDF – 179 kB) regarding the “illegitimate appointment” of the National Electoral Council.
A reported abuses in (PDF – 150 kB), (PDF – 161 kB) e (PDF – 151 kB). da Human Rights Watch in 2023 (PDF – 5 MB) states that 7.1 million Venezuelans have fled the country since 2014.
Maduro denies that the country lives under a dictatorship. He says there are regular elections and the opposition simply cannot win.
The presidential elections on July 28, 2024 are contested by the international community. The main opposition leader, María Corina, in June 2023 to hold public office for 15 years. The Venezuelan Supreme the decision in January 2024. He claimed “administrative irregularities” that were allegedly committed when she was a deputy, from 2011 to 2014, and for “corruption plot” for supporting Juan Guaidó.
Corina indicated the ally Corina Yoris to compete. However, Yoris because of an alleged flaw in the electoral system. The diplomat Edmundo González the role of being the main opposition candidate.
Venezuela’s government-controlled National Electoral Council on July 28, 2024, Maduro’s victory. The organ the result on August 2, 2024, but did not publish the ballots. The Venezuelan Supreme Court of Justice, controlled by the current regime, on August 22, 2024 that the bulletins will not be released.
The Carter Center, a respected organization created by former US President USA Jimmy Carter, that the elections in Venezuela “they were not democratic”. Read the (in English – PDF – 107 kB) of the statement.
The results have subsequently been contested by the European Union and by several individual countries, such as the United States, Mexico, Argentina, Costa Rica, Chile, Ecuador, Guatemala, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Dominican Republic and Uruguay. Brazil has not yet recognized Maduro’s election in 2024, but neither does it make tougher demands like other countries that point to fraud in the process. The president (PT) did not see anything unusual in the country’s election.
Human Rights Watch criticized presidents Lula, Gustavo Petro (Colombia) and Andrés Manuel López Obrador (Mexico) in August 2024. They stated in a letter sent to the 3 that it was necessary for them to reconsider their positions on Venezuela and criticized the leaders’ proposals to resolve the impasse, as a general amnesty. Read the document (PDF – 2 MB).
