Caracas.- The general secretary of the ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), Diosdado Cabello, assured this Monday that the country is “calm” and in “peace”, after two weeks of the United States military attack on Caracas and three other regions that concluded with the capture of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores.
“This town is so calm, at peace, because of the Bolivarian revolution, otherwise it wouldn’t be like this,” said the also Minister of Interior and Justice in the weekly press conference of the Chavista formation.
Cabello highlighted that after the US attack there were no demonstrations that supported this action in the country, while he said that the Chavista government continues to work in the political, economic and social spheres.
“We will continue in the streets alongside the people in our daily struggle, the bad sons of this homeland will never impose evil in Venezuela, never, they have no possibility of doing so,” he added.
Cabello maintained that the aggressions against the country will be confronted through diplomacy.
“We are not afraid to sit down and talk to whoever we have to talk to,” he indicated.
Diosdado Cabello: “We are not going to stop, we are going to keep governing”
“Everyone focused, as a first objective, on the release of the president and Cilia. Everything goes through there. We are not going to stop, we are going to continue governing,” he added.
Since the capture, Chavismo has called for demonstrations to demand the release of both and has promised not to rest until they are brought back to Venezuela.
On Sunday, Chavistas were confident that, given international pressure, an agreement would be reached to release Maduro and his wife.
Protesters have also backed Delcy Rodríguez, who assumed as interim president on January 5 after being summoned by the Supreme Court of Justice.
Pro-Maduro Demonstrations
Since the capture of the president of Venezuela and his wife, Chavismo has called for demonstrations to demand the release of both and has promised not to rest until they are brought back to Venezuela.
Protesters have also backed Delcy Rodríguez as acting president, a position she assumed on January 5 after being summoned by the Supreme Court of Justice.
Rodríguez initiated an “exploratory” process to resume US relations, and on Thursday he met in Caracas with CIA Director John Ratcliffe, with whom he addressed security issues in an effort to bring positions closer, according to sources from the intelligence agency who confirmed it to EFE.
The Venezuelan government in charge, which Donald Trump claims is under US tutelage, has agreed to send millions of barrels of crude oil to the US for commercialization and has opened the oil industry to foreign investment with the support of the Republican Administration.
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“Great mobilization”
In addition, Cabello announced this Monday the call to a “great mobilization” in Caracas for next January 23, the date on which the fall of the dictatorship of Marcos Pérez Jiménez in 1958 is commemorated each year.
In a weekly press conference of the PSUV, broadcast by the state channel VTV, Cabello indicated that the activity next Friday will be part of others that will be held this week to demand the release of Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, who were captured by the United States in Caracas on January 3.
«Today marks 17 days since the kidnapping of the brother president and of comrade Cilia Flores. Kidnapped, subjected to a situation of prisoner of war», reproached the person considered number two of Chavismo.
