The opposition leader of Venezuela María Corina Machado assured this Monday that the days of Chavismo in power “are numbered and there are not many,” despite the fact that last Friday Nicolás Maduro was inaugurated for a questioned third consecutive term, which the largest coalition anti-Chavista denounces as the consummation of a “coup d’état.”
“They in the regime know that they are few and that they are isolated, they know that their days in power are numbered and there are not many, that is why they are paranoid and do not sleep (…) knowing that their end is approaching and fearing being sold by any of the people around them,” he said in an audio posted on social networks.
In the opinion of the former representative, who claims the victory of Edmundo González Urrutia in the presidential elections on July 28, the world democratic left “abandoned” Chavismo, which – she assured – “will never show the records that prove its overwhelming defeat” in those elections.
“We know that this is the most difficult moment because here no one sucks their thumb, we know the risks and we have assumed them, that is why we are mounted in the ring (quadrilateral), fighting, hitting and receiving punches (blows) with determination that, if we don’t win in the first or second round, then we will win in the third or fourth, but we will win, because we already have them on the ropes,” he said. In that sense, Machado pointed out that, “isolated as they are, they only have to try” to confuse and scare.
Hours before, also through social networks, María Corina Machado published another photograph of the demonstration called on the eve of Nicolás Maduro’s inauguration on Friday, January 10, in Venezuela. Next to the image, a slogan: “There will be many more of us in the streets”, anticipating new actions in the country against the regime.
The Venezuelan opposition leader has urged opposition supporters to take to the streets more and more and thus demonstrate that “we are not afraid” of the Government of President Nicolás Maduro. “We Venezuelans show that we are not afraid, and I know that there will be many more of us in the streets. Today we ask every Venezuelan to firmly exercise their right to protest,” Machado has published.
Corina Machado has insisted on the illegitimacy of the results of the presidential elections on July 28. Nicolás Maduro was proclaimed winner of the elections based on results that the National Electoral Council (CNE), which controls Chavismo, have not yet been published in a breakdown, contrary to what was established in the schedule approved by the institution for the celebration. of these votes. “Maduro consolidated the coup d’état and the violation of the Constitution. It is time to do whatever is necessary to restore it. Glory to the brave people!” Corina Machado added in her publication.
For its part, the opposition coalition Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD), the largest in the country, claims to have collected 85.18% of the “election records” that prove, the formation insists, that the winner was its candidate, Edmundo González Urrutia , documents that Chavismo points out as false.
‘Red alert’ against the opponent Leopoldo López
The Venezuelan Prosecutor’s Office has asked the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) this Monday to issue a ‘red alert’ against the Venezuelan opposition Leopoldo López, leader of the Voluntad Popular party.
The attorney general, William Tarek Saab, reported in a press conference that the opponent is accused of instigating armed actions against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, treason and organized crime.
The decision comes after López, who currently resides in Spain, supported the proposal of former Colombian president Álvaro Uribe to intervene militarily in Venezuela, whom Saab has described as “mentally ill.”
“He filled and turned Colombia into a cemetery,” the attorney general has stressed, calling Uribe a “serial killer” and accusing him of killing 7,000 “innocent” citizens to place them as “false positives,” alluding to the extrajudicial executions of civilians. by the Army recorded during his mandate in Colombia.
The Venezuelan Prosecutor’s Office has already requested an arrest warrant against López in the framework of the oil corruption scheme called PDVSA-Cripto. The Supreme Court of Justice of Venezuela (TSJ) requested his extradition from Spain in May 2021.
At the end of October 2020, the Venezuelan opponent left the Spanish Embassy in Caracas, where he had been since April 30, 2019, to clandestinely cross the border with Colombia, from where he flew to Spain.
The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, took office last Friday at the headquarters of the National Assembly, thus beginning a third term that will be a “period of peace” but that begins surrounded by controversy after the elections of July 28, in which the opposition denounced fraud in the vote count and claimed victory.
