Venezuela.- The former presidents of Colombia Ivan Duque y Andres Pastranaas well as the former president of Bolivia Tuto Quirogathey condemned the onslaught of regime of Nicolas Maduro against the team Maria Corina Machado and other political figures of the Venezuelan opposition, who pursue free and democratic presidential elections in 2024.
The former presidents referred in their accounts on the social network ”, among which are members of María Corina Machado’s work team.
The former president of Colombia Iván Duque described the regime’s decision as a “cowardly, vile, lying and infamous attitude that goes against democracy and the political rights of Venezuelan citizens,” he said.
He added that the “narco-dictator Nicolás Maduro once again runs over the democracy and freedom in Venezuela.”
Duque also expressed his solidarity with María Corina Machado and the Venezuelan people, and called on the international community to “not become validators of a dictatorship and surround the opponents that the regime today oppresses, persecutes and imprisons to avoid the free and democratic elections in 2024”.
For his part, former President Pastrana stated that the Maduro regime “desperately wants to end the electoral process in Venezuela,” he continued. “Democrats of the world must denounce this new excessive aggression and call for solidarity with the freedom fighters of the brother country Venezuela.”
Finally, former President Quiroga emphasized that Maduro “was overwhelmed by the opposition primaries that elected María Corina Machado, he tried to counteract them with the Essequibo referendum and it turned out to be a fiasco. Hysterical, he attacks the Vente Venezuela team, flagrantly violating the Barbados agreement. Where are the 4 complicit guarantors?” he asked.
The attack by the Maduro regime against the Venezuelan opposition occurs in a context of growing political tension in the country. The regime has intensified its repression against opponents, and has closed democratic spaces for political participation.
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Source: Accounts of the social network X, formerly Twitter, of former presidents Iván Duque, Andrés Pastrana and Tuto Quiroga
