From the surroundings of Miraflores Palace in Caracas, the Chancellor of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Jorge Arreaza, revealed on Monday the linkage of exogenous factors with the assassination attempt carried out on Saturday against the Venezuelan Head of State, Nicolás Maduro.
«There is a national side of the Venezuelan coup-plotting right wing, but there is an international side to this assassination in a degree of frustration; There are clear evidences that the President will give at due time», said the Minister of People’s Power for Foreign Affairs before the crowd that gathered on support for the president.
He questioned, in this context, the pronouncements that around the case have been issued by countries grouped in the so-called Lima Group, and referred to the historical damage caused by the Washington (now Miami) -Bogota to Latin America and the Caribbean axis.
«An axis that has done a terrible damage to Our Americas for 200 years», he stressed in this regard.
Ruling elites block NAM’s statement
In his speech, Foreign Minister Arreaza denounced the refusal of the ruling elites of Peru, Colombia, Chile, Guatemala and Panama to endorse the communiqué issued by the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries (NAM) in repudiation of the attack.
«They are not interested in multilateralism, they are not interested in the mechanisms that exist in the world to protect the peoples», he said.
The Venezuelan diplomat reflected, in addition, on the serious consequences that the attack could trigger in the country.
«Those who dared, who dared to attempt against the life of our president Nicolás Maduro, who attacked the life of the heads of the Public Authorities in Venezuela (…) did not calculate the dimensions of what they were doing; they are looking for a war between Venezuelans», he added.
