Venezuela | New assassination attempt on Maduro

It does not seem that the opposition forces in Venezuela, and behind it Washington, are satisfied with the defeat suffered in the last parliamentary elections that took place in the country, during which the Socialist Alliance, led by President Nicolás Maduro, recovered the control of Parliament, but, as it seemed, it is still You try to turn the balance. After the opposition leader, Juan Guaidó, rejected the results, and many countries, led by the United States, adopted the novel of “electoral fraud”, Maduro revealed a new attempt to assassinate him on the sixth of this month, that is, the day of the parliamentary elections, highlighting, in a press conference held by the first. Yesterday he was forced to change the electoral college where he usually votes, “because a reliable source in the Colombian intelligence community received information about the preparations for my assassination on Election Day.”

The Venezuelan president, whose party regained control of Parliament, the last stronghold of the opposition, did not exercise his right to vote in Katia, west of Caracas, but in the Simón Rodríguez school, located within the Fort Tiona military complex, under strict measures of security. Maduro accused his Colombian counterpart, Iván Duque, of being behind that attempt, stressing that “everything is under investigation.” And the latter, a close ally of Washington, his country had repeatedly been involved in plots against Caracas, the most recent last May, when armed mercenaries attempted to infiltrate by sea from Colombia to Makoto Beach in the state of La Guaira, north of Caracas. The attempt, which was aimed at kidnapping Maduro and transporting him to the United States by plane, according to Caracas, was thwarted by the Venezuelan armed forces and ended with the murder of eight mercenaries and the arrest of 45 others, including two former US soldiers who were serving. in the Special Forces.

Maduro announced his desire to open channels of “communication and dialogue” with the Biden government

Despite the campaigns directed at Venezuela under the administration of US President Donald Trump, Maduro reiterated his desire to open channels of “communication and dialogue” with the administration of US President-elect Joe Biden. In that context, he said, “we have always been and will always be willing to establish relations of dialogue and respect with the leaders of the United States.” Meanwhile, the leader of the Venezuelan opposition thanked Washington’s renewed support, his recognition as “interim president of the country” and his “strong” rejection of the results of the legislative elections. “We appreciate the firm and determined commitment of the United States to Venezuela in its fight to restore democracy,” Guaidó said yesterday, considering that what he described as “six-dimensional electoral fraud” “only deepens the serious crisis that the country is suffering.” . Guaidó’s remarks came after his opposition launched a referendum scheduled to end next Saturday, in which he asked Venezuelans “if they want to end the Maduro government and hold new presidential elections.” In reference to this referendum, the Secretary of State of the United States, Mike Pompeo, said that “from December 7 to 12 the Venezuelan people will have the opportunity to express their opinion on the illegal Maduro regime through the popular vote.”

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