Diosdado Cabello, vice president of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), speaks during a press conference. File photo.
The vice president of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), Diosdado Cabello, announced the governing party’s rejection of the request made by the Colombian Senate to Colombian President Gustavo Petro to recognize the far-right former candidate Edmundo González as president of Venezuela.
During the weekly PSUV press conference held this Monday, September 30, Cabello said that the Colombian Senate “is infiltrated by narco-paramilitarism,” recalling the drug trafficker Pablo Escobar Gaviria, who was a member of the Colombian Senate.
Cabello said that the majority of those who voted in favor of this decision “are linked to paramilitarism, drug trafficking, and if they do not do so [vote in favor], they will be charged because they must comply with the orders of the [US] empire,” he warned.
Cabello reiterated that the Colombian Senate should not assume the functions exclusive to the Venezuelan Electoral Power through the National Electoral Council (CNE), which determines, per the rule of law, who won or did not win the Venezuelan elections. “We do not care what the Colombian Senate says. It is really irrelevant,” he added.
Cabello insisted on the idea that Venezuela “is the jewel in the crown that they are looking for,” and that is why they insist on the destabilizing plans originating from the United States. In Cabello’s opinion, these plans have only strengthened Venezuela’s will to remain a free nation.
Translation: Orinoco Tribune
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