Maria Corina Machado prepares “huge activity” in support of political change in Venezuela

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado announced Friday that she is preparing a “huge event” to support political change in the country, which held presidential elections on July 28.

“We are going to be calling for a huge event where everyone (…) has to see the strength, determination, the decision that we Venezuelans have made, that there is no turning back,” said the former deputy during a conversation with Venezuelan-American singer Lele Pons, which was broadcast on Instagram.

Without specifying dates, Machado said that this event, which will be held “inside and outside” Venezuela, will be “very soon” and the call will be published “in the next few hours,” in support of the standard-bearer of the Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD), Edmundo González Urrutia, whom she refers to as the “new president-elect” of the South American nation.

“We are not going to leave the streets, that does not mean that we are going to be in the streets every day,” insisted the anti-Chavez activist, González Urrutia’s main supporter, who hopes that “all those who are hurt” by Venezuela will join this activity, which she defined as “a moment of encounter.”

He stressed that the movement he leads, which accuses Maduro of electoral fraud, is “organized, civic and peaceful” but “is not docile,” but rather is pushing “a very robust strategy” to put an end to the Chavista government, in power since 1999.

He also considered that Maduro’s recommendation to stop using the WhatsApp messaging application and the suspension of the X social network are signs that “they are scared” in Chavismo, because, he insisted, they lost the elections, as the Carter Center, which participated as an observer of the process, has also denounced.

EFE