Venezuelan opposition politician Henrique Capriles. File photo.
By admitting that the current opposition “leadership” is not a real alternative in Venezuela’s political arena, the far-right spokesman Henrique Capriles Radonski reacted this Wednesday, January 5, after the announced extension of the self-appointed “interim government” of GuaidĂł and the begining of the second term of the legitimate National Assembly, chaired by Jorge RodrĂguez.
In this sense, Capriles, who is a staunch opponent of the Bolivarian Revolution, also strongly criticizes the illegal actions of his former partners (Leopoldo LĂłpez, Julio Borges and GuaidĂł). For this reason, he mentioned socio-economic indicators, noting that in 2022 “this political group cannot continue living in an echo chamber. ”
“Venezuelan speaks and we cannot keep looking sideways. Accompanying, helping, proposing and fighting with Venezuelans on the basis of reality and the truth must be a priority; perhaps this will allow us to once again be an alternative that arouses the interest of the majority,” he wrote.
Likewise, he reiterated that in the new year he will insist there be âreal changes” in Venezuela’s political scene, beyond speeches that only concern a small part of the leadership. “We will make every effort in that direction.”
Durante el difĂcil 2021, la gran mayorĂa de los venezolanos en medio del hartazgo que genera la crisis del paĂs, marcaron mayor distancia y dejaron de interesarse por los asuntos polĂticos.
— Henrique Capriles R. (@hcapriles) January 5, 2022
The unloved
In recent times, Capriles Radonski has received expressions of repudiation from militant sectors of Chavismo but also from citizens who sympathize with the right and who in other times had supported him. All this for moving away from the current that GuaidĂł represents and criticizing the violent and illegal actions that he promotes.
In this way, he is seen as “ill-liked” by those sectors that constantly call for abstention, that ask for foreign intervention and that applaud the continuity of an “interim government” in Venezuela.
However, also in sectors of Chavismo he is remembered as one of the main architects of the coup d’Ă©tat of April 2002, when he personally, as mayor of the Baruta municipality, in the metropolitan area of Caracas, led the assault on the Cuban embassy in Caracas, during the persecution against revolutionary leaders.
He is currently part of the opposition faction in Venezuela that considers Juan GuaidĂł’s self-appointed “administration” a failure. Capriles even recently declared that ” what they call interim government died on April 30, 2019. There they gave it a Christian burial.”
Featured image: Venezuelan opposition politician Henrique Capriles. File photo.
(RedRadioVE) by JosĂ© Manuel Blanco DĂaz
Translation: Orinoco Tribune
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José Manuel Blanco Diaz
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