Miami, Apr 1 (EFE).- A group of opponents of the current governments of Venezuela, Nicaragua, Cuba, Colombia, Honduras and Bolivia left the city of Miami this Saturday by road to Washington with the aim of publicizing before the US State Department and legislators who denounce the corruption that is shaking the region.
The Nicaraguan opponent exiled in Miami Ariel Montoya, a member of the Political Action Organization (OPA), told EFE this Saturday that members of organizations that fight once morest the leftist governments of those countries are scheduled to arrive in Washington on Sunday followingnoon, where They will stay until Tuesday.
The representatives of the Hispano-American Caravan Toward Washington will meet with members of the State Department, congressmen and senators to discuss the situation these countries are going through as a result of the policies of their current governments.
According to a statement from the organizers of the initiative, the objective is to “put an end to the drug dictatorships that prevail in the American continent” and, also, “to the holocausts, misery and persecution that the citizens of those Latin American countries experience.”
Ariel indicated that although the main caravan, which includes dozens of people, part of Miami, members of different organizations will also go to Washington from various parts of the United States such as the city of Orlando and the states of Virginia or Maryland, among others.
“In Washington we want to transmit a general discourse of the region and another of our own by country,” he said, following pointing out that in his case it is interesting to work for a dialogue solution in Nicaragua that responds to the issue of the mass exodus.
The president of the Patriotic Board of Venezuela, Pablo Medina, told EFE that this trip to Washington follows another that they already made 5 months ago, when representatives of the Joe Biden Administration were asked for measures to tackle the situation caused by the exodus massive Venezuelans.