“VWe are going to call for a huge activity where everyone (…) has to see the strength, the determination, the decision that we, Venezuelans, have taken, that there is no turning back”, said Machado on Friday.
In a conversation with Venezuelan-American singer Lele Pons, broadcast on the social network Instagram, the leader promised to reveal “in the next few hours” more details about an event that will take place “very soon”, both “inside and outside” Venezuela.
Machado said the event would be in support of the main opposition coalition’s presidential candidate, former diplomat Edmundo González Urrutia, whom he referred to as the South American nation’s “new president-elect.”
“We are not going to leave the streets, that does not mean we will be on the streets every day,” the activist insisted. Machado said she hoped “everyone who suffers” for Venezuela would join the event, which she described as “a moment of encounter.”
The leader argued that the movement she leads is “organized, civic and peaceful”, but “not docile”, imposing “a super robust strategy” to end Chavismo, in power in Venezuela since 1999.
Chavismo is a left-wing ideology based on the ideas of former Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez (1999-2013) and continued by the current leader, Nicolás Maduro, who claimed re-election for a third term, but whom the opposition accuses of electoral fraud.
María Corina Machado considered that Nicolás Maduro’s announcement, made on Monday, that he was withdrawing from Whatsapp and the appeal to the population to stop using the messaging platform are signs that Chavista leaders “are afraid”.
On Friday, when asked about the dialogue he announced he would hold after the presidential elections, Maduro rejected any negotiations with María Corina Machado, stating that she must be held accountable “for the crimes she committed.”
“As far as negotiations are concerned, I think the only person who should negotiate with Machado in this country is the Attorney General, so that she can turn herself in to justice and answer for the crimes she committed,” said Nicolás Maduro.
Last Sunday, Venezuelan Attorney General Tarek William Saab denied that there are arrest warrants against María Corina Machado or Edmundo González Urrutia.
However, Saab confirmed that “there is a general investigation that had as a direct effect the arrest of people who set fire to public offices with people inside them, which is extremely serious.”
After the presidential elections on July 28 in Venezuela, a country with a significant community of Portuguese and Portuguese descendants, the National Electoral Council (CNE) attributed the victory to Maduro with just over 51% of the votes, while the opposition claims that its candidate, Edmundo González Urrutia, obtained almost 70% of the votes.
The Venezuelan opposition and several countries in the international community have demanded that the voting records be presented for independent verification, which the CNE says is unfeasible due to a cyberattack it was allegedly the target of.
The election results have been contested in the streets, with demonstrations repressed by security forces, with around two thousand arrests and more than two dozen fatalities.
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