During his program ‘With the hammer giving’, Diosdado Cabello, deputy and first vice president of the ruling partyhe psuv, harshly criticized the Foreign Minister in charge of Colombia, Luis Gilberto Murillowho, during his participation in the 54th conference of the Council of the Americas, assured that the proposal made by Gustavo Petro for a plebiscite to “guarantee the life” of whoever loses in the presidential elections on July 28, would seek to guarantee the possibility of a “calm transition.”
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Given this, Cabello wondered who he works for. Chancellor Murillo: yes for the government of Gustavo Petro or for the administration of the United States.
“Seriously, Mr. Chancellor? Actually? Who sent you to declare that: your president of Colombia or your president of the United States? Who do you work for? Because, who gives you the right to talk about transition in Venezuela? Who has authorized you to talk about transition in Venezuela? Here the only transition that is coming is the transition to socialism,” he said.
“There is no other transition (…) this (Murillo) He is a North American official, he does not work for the Colombian government. Look where he was before he was chancellor and he spoke in English so that the masters over there in the United States could understand him,” said the so-called number two of Chavismo, who also described the statement of the acting chancellor as “very rude and hostile.”
Cabello insisted that Murillo “works for the US government and even said that he was “appointed” by the Biden administration and “that is why they removed the previous chancellor (Álvaro Leyva).”
The Chavismo official also urged Foreign Minister Murillo to deal with Colombia’s problems.
International community vital for the presidential election in Venezuela
Regarding the 54th conference of the Council of the Americas, the opposition leader, Maria Corina Machado, and the presidential candidate of the Unitary Platform, a Venezuelan opposition coalition, Edmundo González Urrutia.
The unitary candidate pointed out that the presence of the international community in Venezuela, “before and during the voting is vital,” while Machado highlighted that this presidential election, which is just over 80 days away, is a “unique opportunity” to achieve a political change in the country.
