Chile Submits to Fascism: Venezuela's Foreign Minister Gil Responds to President Boric

Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yván Gil sharply rebuked President of Chile, Gabriel Boric by stating that whoever calls for a coup d’état, “Pinochet style,” will be investigated and tried in Venezuela.

“No, Mr. Boric! This is your government that bows down to the excesses of the far right and fascism.”

This was the response of the foreign minister to the statements in which the Chilean president criticized the investigations being carried out by the Venezuelan prosecutor’s office against María Corina Machado and former presidential candidate Edmundo González for attempts at destabilization and ignoring the results of the June 28 election, where they were once again defeated.

¡No Sr. Boric! Ese es su gobierno que se arrodilla ante los desmanes de la ultraderecha y el fascismo, acá si tenemos un Estado fuerte y una justicia que protege al pueblo y que no lo persigue, como ocurre en su país, donde ser de izquierda es muy peligroso.
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— Yvan Gil (@yvangil) August 5, 2024

Meanwhile, the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs added that “here we have a strong state and a justice system that protects the people,” in a post on social media, while adding that “if you gave up and engaged in this practice, it is your problem, do not involve us in your ideological and democratic shortcomings,” in reference to recent police repression reported in Chile against ordinary citizens protesting for electricity cutoffs.

Gil also said that in Venezuela the government guarantees justice and does not persecute the people, “as happens in his country (Chile), where being on the left is very dangerous.” Communist leader and former mayor of Santiago Daniel Jadue has been jailed since last July under corruption allegations.

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For her part, Vice President Delcy Rodriguez also reacted to Boric’s statements, calling his words “inappropriate” and, in her opinion, can only be explained “as an offering to his leader Pinochet or as a lowly way of paying tribute to the US, for reasons that are also unknown.” Rodriguez added that ” so many knees bending is shameful!” in a post published on social media.

(RedRadioVE) by Victoria Torres with Orinoco Tribune content

Translation: Orinoco Tribune

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