The President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, ratified his call to dialogue on Friday to sectors of the opposition.
“I ratify my call to dialogue and not only the call to dialogue the practice of dialogue (…) I have received several political sectors and next week I will continue to receive opposition leaders and set an agenda,” he said.
During his speech at Miraflores Palace in a meeting with representatives of the Ample Front of the Homeland, the Head of State, assured that the politicians imprisoned for crimes of violence that were released this Friday, were released at his request.
“Today, a group of opposition leaders and activists who had committed crimes of political violence between 2014, 2015-2016 and the “guarimbas” (riots) of 2017 have been set free at my request. Already a first group has received the benefits of this pacification policy. I believe in that policy”, he said.
He announced that next week he will have dialogue days with the social sectors of the country.
“I think the balance of dialogue of these two weeks is very positive, this first cycle that ends today. And next week we started a second cycle of social character to listen to the community members, workers, teachers, students, among others”, he added.
Maduro assured that he will work to avoid any call to violence, and affirmed that his Government is prepared to neutralize any call to a coup d’etat. “I ask for the ability of political action to build ties of conversation with sectors of the opposition (…) I do not want a coup d’ etat nor a counter-coup, although we are prepared to defeat whatever may come”, he said.
