Maria Corina asks Mexico to send a message to Maduro

MEXICO CITY (EFE).— Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado yesterday called on the Mexican government to use its “direct channel of communication” with the Nicolás Maduro regime to stop the repression and accept the results of the July 28 election.

“The Mexican government has an enormous responsibility at this time because it has the link, the direct channel with Nicolás Maduro,” said María Corina in a virtual press conference with Mexican media.

For this reason, he asked the administration of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador “to let Nicolás Maduro know that his best option is to accept the terms of a reasonable negotiation with guarantees for the parties, which starts with recognizing the result of the July 28 meeting.”

“And to stop the repression. That is a very important message that I ask the Mexican government to convey, to enforce human rights and to release all those detained,” he urged.

The opposition leader said that “Mexico has a very important role because it has a channel of communication with the regime, along with Colombia and Brazil,” countries that published a new statement yesterday about their mediation work in the post-election crisis.

In the statement, the three countries insisted that the Venezuelan National Electoral Council (CNE) is the one that must carry out a “transparent dissemination of the results” broken down by voting table, something that this institution has done in the past given that its electoral system is fully automated.

At the virtual press conference, María Corina said that the opposition will not negotiate the results nor accept a power-sharing scheme, where Maduro remains in power and gives up some spaces, “because that would be ignoring the popular will.”

He also indicated that they would be “very interested in interacting with the National Electoral Institute (INE) of Mexico so that they can confirm with their own eyes the veracity of the information” they have on the records, which were made available to them.

According to María Corina, more than 83.5% of the electoral records show that Edmundo González Urrutia won the election with 67% of the votes, while Maduro obtained 30%.

“The regime did not expect this, it did not expect the massive participation throughout the country (…) we won by a huge margin, people took to the streets, that same night they were already celebrating the results in their respective centers, and faced with this evidence, the regime’s reaction was to resort to violence and it has been brutal,” he lamented.

President’s Exhortation

María Corina Machado urged Mexico’s president-elect, Claudia Sheinbaum, to intervene in the face of this crisis.

Brutal violence

“Violence against women has been brutal” and requires “all women in the world to unite in this cause,” she said.

Claudia Sheinbaum

“I would ask the president-elect of Mexico to listen to Venezuelan women, to the pain that exists today, to the shared longing, but also to the strength, to know that we will not give up,” she said.

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