This Thursday, a group of former heads of government of Spain and Latin America They agreed to be alert to monitor the actions taken by the president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduroespecially against the opposition leaders in that country and the implications it could have in the region, which is already suffering from emigration of millions of Venezuelans.
The former heads of state who participated in the IX Presidential Dialogueannual forum that was held this Thursday in Miami, focused on -which they consider- “electoral fraud” gestated in the presidential elections on July 28, in which the Venezuelan electoral authorities declared Maduro the winner, without until now having presented the results in a disaggregated manner.
The Venezuelan opposition majority has rejected the official results and, under the protection of electoral records that they made public, considers that their candidate, Edmundo González Urrutia (today exiled in Spain), He was the winner and is the elected president of Venezuelaas also highlighted by the former governors gathered at Miami Dade College (MDC), headquarters of the event.
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A “delinquent dictatorship” and the moment of truth
“On July 28, the entire world was able to verify that the word of Nicolás Maduro is worth even less than the devalued Bolívar“said the former head of Spanish Government José María Aznarfor whom on election day “the sovereignty expressed in the vote was denied to the Venezuelan people by the delinquent dictatorship that usurps their Government.”
“It was an electoral robbery“, much more than an electoral fraud, because he lost due to a beating that is recognized with evidence and by world public opinion,” emphasized the former Ecuadorian president. Jamil Mahuad.
Mahuad pointed out that To remove a dictator like Maduro “bolted” to power requires internal resistance like what the Venezuelan people are doing, “paying with blood for their bravery”as well as with the common action and in a single direction of the international community.
You cannot proclaim democracy and at the same time “take the opportunity to hold negotiations seeking national advantages,” criticized the former Ecuadorian president. “For some countries that has to change”he added.
Along these lines, the former president of Costa Rica Miguel Angel Rodriguez He pointed out in the forum that developed countries have an enormous responsibility for what is happening in Venezuela, because their oil companies “they buy the regime and finance it”.
During a panel dedicated to Venezuela, the former Mexican president Vicente Fox emphasized the role of the opposition leader Maria Corina Machadowho through the Commando Con Vzla movement gathered “the evidence of the results” in the last elections and, in that sense, was of the opinion of developing “counterweights, countermeasures” to stop Maduro’s actions.
Through a video message, María Corina Machado said that they are in “the definitive hour” and addressed the international community: “The truth is that the entire world knows the crimes against humanity that the Maduro regime has committed. The truth is that the world has to act, because we Venezuelans have done our part”.
Vigilant against what happens to Corina Machado
Also through a video message, the standard bearer of the opposition majority Edmundo González Urrutia requested that it be exercised “sufficient democratic pressure so that the will of the Venezuelan people is fulfilled” expressed in the elections last July and that, for the opposition, this process should conclude with the assumption of command next January by this opposition leader.
“He is the elected president, he has all the legitimacy and legality to assume his position,” said Mahuad, who incidentally stressed that González Urrutia is a career diplomat and can use his experience abroadfrom his asylum in Spain.
At today’s event, the Foreign Minister of Panama, Javier Martínez-Achawarned that the countries of the region will not remain indifferent if something were to happen to Machado, who remains in Venezuela and not outside the country as sources from the Maduro Government suggested.
“Defending democracy is defending the future of our children”said the Panamanian Foreign Minister, who urged the countries of America to “raise their voices and isolate the protagonists of the Venezuelan tyranny with sanctions.”
The forum also brought together the former president of Ecuador Osvaldo Hurtado and his Bolivian counterpart Jorge Tuto Quiroga, as well as the president of the MDC, Madeleine Pumariega.
It has served as a framework to present the Institute for Freedom in the Americas, an initiative of the MDC focused on fostering a culture of freedom, democracy and global governance.
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