“I have always been willing to dialogue,” responded this Wednesday the President of the Republic, Nicolás Maduro, to the question posed by the Washington Post correspondent about the possibility of resuming a dialogue with the US administration.
“I was open as a President, cautious with the arrival of Donald Trump and I always opened floodgates for dialogue, but unfortunately they have fallen into the same error as (George) Bush and (Barack) Obama and have deepened it.”
At a press conference with representatives of national and international media in Bolivar state, he recalled that during the administration of Bill Clinton there was a relationship of respect and permanent dialogue between both Governments and it was only after the arrival of Bush when the policy US foreign policy towards Venezuela took a turn towards the extreme right, referring to the participation of the US administration in the 2002 coup d’etat.
The National leader also referred to the “nefarious” legacy of the Obama administration, this with regard to the executive order signed by the US President in March 2015 in which he declared Venezuela as an “unusual and extraordinary” threat to national security and to the foreign policy of the United States.
Maduro attributed much of the tensions between both Governments to the pressure exerted by the lobby “that move within the corridors of the White House and the State Department”, but he did not hesitated to ratify his willingness to resolve these differences with dignity, respect and dialogue.
“The world needs tolerance, dialogue and respect among the different (…) We are different from Donald Trump and Venezuela is different from the United States, but there must be dialogue between the different parties”, agreed the president, noting that the process of dialogue between The Democratic Republic of North Korea and the United States could be taken as a positive example.
