MONTEVIDEO.- José ‘Pepe’ Mujica, former president of Uruguay and reference of the Latin American left, stated that in Venezuela “there is an authoritarian government” that mistreats the people, while criticizing the vice president of that country for her comments this week against the Uruguayan president, Luis Lacalle For.
Speaking to reporters on Friday, Mujica, a former guerrilla who governed Uruguay from 2010 to 2015, considered that Nicolás Maduro, He can be called a “dictator.”
“The misfortune of Venezuela is that it has a lot of oil, and it has felt surrounded and has an authoritarian government that goes the other way,” he said.
“But I learned this: in a besieged square, any dissident is a traitor, so they treat people like shit,” Mujica added.
Asked if the Maduro administration is a dictatorship, he answered: “Where does the concept of dictatorship originate? It was a decision of the Roman Empire when the potatoes were burning, that they concentrated power and gave it to one guy alone, to rule. No disagreement or anything.”
“That lady’s motorcycle went away”
“Closed order because in moments of danger you cannot discuss. There has to be someone in charge. That’s where the figure of the dictator was invented. In Venezuela there is an authoritarian government and it is “You can call him a dictator, call him what you want,” projection.
Mujica also questioned the vice president of the Madurista regime, Delcy Rodríguez, who on Monday called Lacalle Pou a “lackey”, accusing him of being functional to the United States after he said that the Maduro government is “a dictatorship.”
“That lady lost her motorcycle. That’s how you can’t talk about the presidents of America. You shouldn’t talk, even for convenience and for diplomatic reasons. She lost her motorcycle,” Mujica emphasized, using a popular expression for say that he lost his bearings.
The crossing between Lacalle and Rodríguez occurs after Uruguay called its ambassador in Venezuela, Eber da Rosa, for consultations on February 9, considering that there are facts that “would make it unfeasible” to hold free elections in the Caribbean country this year. .
This Thursday, Uruguay joined Argentina, Costa Rica, Ecuador and Paraguay to express in a statement “its deep concern about the arbitrary detention of the (Venezuelan) human rights activist Rocío San Miguel” and the suspension of the activities of an office of the UN in Venezuela.
Source: With information from AFP
