Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro said on Thursday night (25) that the Barbados Accords, negotiated with the Venezuelan opposition to promote political rights and guarantees for the holding of presidential elections in 2024, are “mortally wounded” and in “therapy intensive”.
The agreement, derived from negotiations between the Venezuelan government and the opposition that began in 2021 and mediated by Norway, determines the free election of candidates by political forces according to the country's internal mechanisms and the Venezuelan constitution and electoral guarantees for holding the election in the second half of the year. this year.
“Today the Barbados Accords are mortally wounded, I declare that they are in intensive care. They were stabbed, kicked,” said the Venezuelan president, speaking in the capital of Venezuela.
Maduro made the statement in reference to alleged conspiracies, denounced this week by his government, to carry out attacks against him, against the country's Defense Minister, Vladimir Padrino López, and against Freddy Bernal, governor of the state of Táchira, bordering to Colombia.
In his speech this Thursday (25), he mentioned the alleged participation of the CIA (US Intelligence Agency) and the DEA (US Drug Control Agency), from Colombia, in the plans that would have been uncovered and dismantled by Caracas .
Maduro said he hopes that the agreements will be “saved” and the dialogue will be promoted “for real, face to face, without hidden letters, without macabre plans, without plans to assassinate me or us or lead the country to violence”.
The statements increase tension with the opposition, which has been pushing for the immediate calling of presidential elections. This Wednesday (23), candidate María Corina Machado, demanded that Miraflores “put a date at once” in the electoral process: “whether you like it or not, Nicolás Maduro, the people will force you to evaluate yourself [nas urnas]. Leave your fear behind, set a date and let’s compete”, she exclaimed.
“They [governo] They know they don't have votes and, therefore, they hide behind the threat, the persecution, the lie, the manufactured sentence to try to silence us, annihilate us or divert us. But know clearly: no one takes us away from this electoral path in which we are going to advance and dislodge this tyranny,” he said in an act.
Nadie get us off the electoral route!
“Whether or not Maduro wants it, the pueblo is forcing it to measure itself. Leave it to fear and pongan it closes.”#VenezuelaGANA pic.twitter.com/APp5Hll2Dy
— Vente Venezuela (@VenteVenezuela) January 24, 2024
The Venezuelan government's statement comes amid a visit by a European Union delegation to the country. Today, representatives of the mission were received by the country's vice president, Delcy Rodríguez “to advance the restoration of political relations between nations”, according to Venezuelan state television.
Source: CNN Brasil
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