“Whitewashing Maduro is an unforgivable betrayal”

Antonio Ledezma

Antonio Ledezma, former metropolitan mayor, assured in a forum organized by the Madrid-Vivo Foundation that “Maduro seeks to be whitewashed by a sector of the opposition that claims to represent the Venezuelan people and that they are the same factors that have been making decisions in the last eight years.”

The politician spoke at the closing of the Dialogues forum, held this Friday at the Children’s Palace, El Escorial in Madrid, sharing a table with Cardinal Carlos Osoro, archbishop of the Spanish capital.

In his speech he asked for “understanding and support for the more than seven million Venezuelans who are part of the Venezuelan diaspora, with which the Maduro dictatorship intends to break the fraternity and family unity of our homes.” “People flee from death in a hospital, since health centers are dilapidated, people seek to escape from a gangland bullet that has taken control of much of the national territory, or die of hunger in a country where What a worker earns does not cover 8% of the cost of the food basket.”

Also, he said that the dialogues What is done is controlled by the Venezuelan government because it continues to impose the agenda and even decides who represents the opposition. “That is a mockery and I will never lend myself to that, nor will they see me involved in an electoral circus that will only serve to whitewash a regime that does not guarantee that citizens really vote and choose,” he said.

Ledezma asked the audience: “Isn’t it a contradiction to think of agreeing on elections with Maduro, who is being investigated in the International Criminal Court for alleged crimes once morest humanity?” To then add: “It would be inexplicable that if he is wanted for drug trafficking now he is considered the legitimate president and eventual candidate for presidential re-election in the country that he has been destroying.”

What is the truth regarding the tragedy that Venezuela is suffering? I will give that explanation today in Dialogues organized by Fundación Madrid Vivo. An honor to share the platform with Cardinal Archbishop of Madrid Carlos Osorio. pic.twitter.com/pKNoeNiEYD

– Antonio Ledezma (@alcaldeledezma) May 13, 2022

With information from a press release.

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