The Organization of American States criticized the current political situation in the Caribbean country and stressed that “peace of terror is no peace.”
The Organization of American States (OAS) issued a harsh statement on the political crisis that is taking place Venezuelaaccentuated after what were the elections of last Sunday, July 28, where the National Electoral Council ( CNE), close to Chavismo, confirmed the re-election of Nicolas Maduro as president, who is accused of committing electoral fraud by the opposition and by more than a dozen countries.
In the document released this Saturday by the general secretary of the OASthe Uruguayan Luis Almagrocalled for a “return to peace in democracy” and asked for an end to “repression” during the current protests and citizen revolts in different cities of the country.
“The General Secretariat of the Organization of American States calls for peace among Venezuelans, for today to be a day of reconciliation and justice, for messages of hate to be banished and for those who have sown fear, repression and death to find no echo in anyone,” the letter begins, referring to the marches called by Chavismo and the opposition for this Saturday.
In turn, it is urged that “every Venezuelan man and woman who speaks out in the street today find only an echo of peace, a peace that reflects the spirit of democratic coexistence, which is the only lasting peace.”
“The Venezuelan people have paid a very high price”
“The Venezuelan people have paid a high price in hunger, misery, migration, disease, political imprisonment, torture, and death like no other people in the hemisphere in this 21st century,” the statement says harshly, adding: “Let the actors of the international community who have been lenient with these crimes ensure that they do not happen again. Let there be a profound meaning of peace in the actions of every Venezuelan man and woman, let there be no place for a single repressor or a single repressed.”
“The ‘peace’ of repression, fear, terror, is not peace,” the statement stressed. OAS and again asks that there be “no political prisoners” as well as “no torture, disappearances or murders.”Venezuela “It does not deserve that, it deserves to be the return to prosperity for the people, that the sovereignty that resides in that people today is recognized by all. The return to peace in democracy,” he concludes.
Source: Ambito
