The former president of Uruguay, José ‘Pepe’ Mujica, called the political situation in Venezuela “regrettable.”because it seems like they play at democracy, but they don’t play at democracy”, he brandished. However, the leader of the Frente Amplio (FA) assured that “the term democracy is misleading”.
Within the framework of an event by the left-wing FA coalition, and consulted about the concern expressed by governments of various Latin American countries after the disqualification of the opposition candidate Corina Yoris, Mujica declared to the press that “Venezuela is regrettable«.
«It seems that they play at democracy but they do not play at democracy«, he noted. In addition, Mujica warned that it is “equivocal” to use the term dictatorship to refer to the government of Nicolás Maduro with a comparison with Middle Eastern countries.
«What is in Afghanistan? What do the Taliban have? Are they dictatorships or are they theocracies? And what is there in Saudi Arabia? That is, we use the terms without preciser”, stated the former guerrilla who governed Uruguay between 2010 and 2015.
To this he added that «What is clear is that in Venezuela there is no basic respect for the opposition and that disturbs and creates a situation in which this cannot be called democracy.«.
Before Mujica’s statements, the chancellor, Omar Paganini, assured that Venezuela is consolidating itself as “a dictatorship” and that its electoral process “has been completely distorted.”
Paganini thus underlined the importance of the statement in which Uruguay expressed, together with Argentina, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Paraguay and Peru, its “serious concern” regarding the “persistent impediments” in the registration of presidential elections before the National Electoral Council.
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2024-10-05 01:47:26
