Maduro regime calls marches on the same day as the opposition, January 9

The first vice president of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), Diosdado Haircalled for a march next Thursday, January 9, one day before the inauguration of the Presidency, which both President Nicolás Maduro and anti-Chavista leader Edmundo González Urrutia promise to assume.

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“On the 9th we are going to make a big march, a small march In truth, it is not that long, from Petare to Plaza Brión (both areas in the east of Caracas),” Cabello said in the weekly press conference of the Chavista formation broadcast by the state channel Venezolana de Televisión (VTV). ” Don’t try anything, bitterness,” he said ironically to the opposition. The Chavismo demonstration will tour the east of Caracas, on a route that the opposition usually covers in their marches.

Likewise, he pointed out that that same day the ‘Great International Anti-Fascist Congress’ begins in Caracas, which will feature, he said, the participation of delegates from “100 countries”, who will also attend the inauguration.

“Then on the 10th, we have the great swearing-in ceremony (…) we are going to swear in with President Maduro and we are going to give a surprise in the street, beautiful, joyful, happy, we are going to move so many people to celebrate,” he added. .

The call is announced one day after the opposition leader Maria Corina Machado will call on “everyone” to take to the streets of Venezuela and the world on the same date.

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“This day will be recorded in history as the day when Venezuela said enough. Enough of holding on, enough of being silent. It is our land, our flag. Freedom is not begged, it is fought and conquered,” said María Corina Machado in an audio published in X when calling for the marches of the January 9.

He asked to leave “full of confidence” because – he stressed – “Maduro is not going to go alone“We must make it come out with the strength of a people that never gives up.”

Machado and the largest opposition coalition, the Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD), maintain that González Urrutia is the winner of the presidential elections on July 28, which is why they demand that this victory be recognized, despite the fact that the National Electoral Council proclaimed re-election. of Maduro.

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Meanwhile, the opposition leader – exiled since September in Spain – reiterates that he will travel to Venezuela to assume the Presidency and, as a preliminary step, is on an international tour, which has already taken him to Argentina, Uruguay and the United States, in search of supports.

The Prosecutor’s Office maintains an arrest warrant against González Urrutia and the Police recently offered a reward of $100,000 to anyone who provides information about the opponent’s whereabouts or provides any information that would facilitate his arrest.

The Venezuelan Government deployed 1,200 troops throughout the country with the objective of “guaranteeing peace” ahead of the inauguration of the Presidency.