Diosdado Cabello speaks at a PSUV meeting. Photo: Ăšltimas Noticias/ File photo.
According to the vice president of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), Diosdado Cabello, there are no political prisoners in Venezuela, but rather people detained for having committed violent crimes after the July 28 presidential elections.
This Monday, November 11, during the PSUV weekly press conference, Cabello said that sectors of the far-right opposition hired criminals and criminal gangs to provoke destabilization after the last presidential election.
“There, they murdered two of our women with great treachery, with great cruelty and malice, as if to send a message. They murdered a National Guardsman and wounded over 20 people throughout the country,” he stated, saying that fascism has been stopped in Venezuela.
In this regard, he warned about the importance of not allowing fascism to gain ground “so that, in the most incipient phase of fascism, we can fight it and defeat it,” he said.
Democracy in the US
On the other hand, Minister Cabello added that after the presidential elections in the US, Venezuela has not interfered in the country’s internal affairs and, therefore, demands the same respect for its sovereignty.
He also said that, in his opinion, there is no real democracy in the United States. “They should decide how their elections are, their own system. But, if you ask me, I would say that there is no democracy in the United States. There is a two-party system,” said Cabello, while criticizing imperialism for trying to set itself up as the “fathers of democracy” when it has such an archaic political system.
He also demanded that imperialism cease the wars it wages around the world. “I hope they comply and end the war, the massacre, and the genocide against the Palestinian people. I hope they put a stop to the war and fascism in Ukraine,” he added.
Public Ministry
On Monday, Venezuela’s Attorney General Tarek William Saab also said that those responsible for the 28 deaths and over one thousand injuries after the presidential elections on July 28 and 29 are not political prisoners.
“They are criminals who have participated in terrorist actions, paid by the cronies to unleash a civil war in Venezuela,” said Saab, who considered it “totally unethical to want to present these cases as if they had a political nature.”
In this regard, he reiterated that no children are in custody in Venezuela. He explained that there are “adolescents aged 16 and 17 who have confessed that they were used to carry out these acts of violence.”
In this context, he criticized the actions of mainstream media, which do not address the arrest, prosecution, and sentencing of children in countries such as Israel and the United Kingdom.
(Ăšltimas Noticias) by Gustavo Rangel with Orinoco Tribune content
Translation: Orinoco Tribune
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