The US is aware that Nicolás Maduro is a problem not only of Venezuelans, but of the hemisphere because it is still a “destabilizing factor,” the opponent Antonio Ledezma, exiled in Spain, told Efe on Tuesday.
Asked about the last sanctions decided by President Donald Trump against Venezuela, the opponent said they are a “clear sign” that US authorities think so.
“For the United States it is important to leave Maduro’s dictatorship because Maduro’s tyranny is allied with drug trafficking.”
He also cited “the operations of international terrorism, which has turned the Venezuelan territory into its burrow.”
“Maduro is a threat to the security of our hemisphere and, therefore, Venezuelans have already fulfilled a route full of all kinds of arbitrariness, as was the way to the (presidential) elections of July 28,” Ledezma recalled.
“Therefore, the international community, not only the United States, but the European Union, have to be part of the struggle” to get out of power, he urged.
According to the official result, the elections were won by Maduro for a new mandate, but the opposition denounced a “mass fraud” and gave the candidate Edmundo González Urrutia, then asslated in Spain.
According to Ledezma “that purpose of change is more valid than ever and represents the struggle to assert that mandate of Edmundo González and (the opposition leader) María Corina Machado.”
González Urrutia could not assume the presidency of the Republic in January, but the intention of doing so “has been revitalized” and does not stop, Ledezma said.
Therefore, González Urrutia’s meetings with world rulers “are not merely protocol, but obey a strategy” based on optimism.
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