“The time has come for my return, it is my duty to accompany my people”announced the opposition leader Maria Corina Machado. “We have to hug, cry and grieve together.” Machado is out of Venezuela since the beginning of December last year, when he left the country to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. At that time he was still in power Nicolas Maduro. He currently governs provisionally Delcy Rodriguezunder the tutelage of the United States. Machado and the Democratic Unity Platform (PUD) asked him to start a “serious dialogue” to launch the democratic transition. They never received a direct answer, although it was elusive. Jorge Rodríguez, brother of the interim president, received former opposition representative Diniorah Figuera at the request of Washington.
“In this difficult time we ask God to give us strength to do our work. The priority is to save lives“However, Machado noted and stressed: “I am going to Venezuela very soon together with the Venezuelan people.”
Its intention introduces a political element that forces the authorities at one point to establish a position. “The announcement of his return is against what was agreed with the Government of the States United,” said political analyst Indira Urbaneja in a post spread on her social networks and cited by the portal Counterpoint. According to Urbaneja, the right-wing leader has traveled “to a country close to Venezuela” from where she plans to enter her country. In his opinion, he returns in a “demonstration of human misery and political dwarfism” because it can be a “disruptive factor” due to “its ability to intrigue” at a time marked by disaster.
The Nobel Prize winner, the analyst added, “is concerned” about the State Department’s decision to have Dinorah Figuera be the opposition’s interlocutor against the interim government. “María Corina feels threatened” and puts her political interest first “instead putting the pain and suffering of Venezuelans first“.
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