President Maduro held meeting with international observers after parliamentary elections

The President of the Republic, Nicolás Maduro, held on Monday a meeting with international observers, who participated in the parliamentary elections held in the country this Sunday:

A pleasant meeting with former presidents José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero (Spain), Manuel Zelaya (Honduras), Evo Morales (Bolivia), Rafael Correa (Ecuador) and Fernando Lugo (Paraguay),” reported the head of state in his account on the Twitter social network.

The National President highlighted that the five former presidents witnessed “the greatness of the people and the strength of Venezuelan democracy” during the elections to elect the 277 new deputies to the National Assembly (AN).

In the parliamentary elections this Sunday, more than 200 guests participated through the International Accompaniment Program.

According to the first bulletin of the National Electoral Council (CNE), the “”Simón Bolívar” Great Patriotic Pole (GPP) obtained more than 67% of the positions.

The press is the first threat in Latin America

The former president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, reiterated this Monday that popular participation in the parliamentary elections in Venezuela was massive. He added that the world’s media seek to hide those truths:

“The press is the first threat in Latin America, they try to hide the truth of Venezuela as they did in Ecuador and Bolivia,” he said during his participation in the Dialogue of Civilizations conference at the Samuel Robinson Institute, where he was accompanied by the former president of Bolivia , Evo Morales; the former president of Paraguay, Fernando Lugo and the Minister of People’s Power for Foreign Relations of Venezuela, Jorge Arreaza.

In this sense, he expressed that socialist countries, progressivism, freedom, is non-domination, and for that it must be intervened, for that there must be the reflection of society through political processes to build laws that control any factual power of a society, such as media power.

For capitalism life is a commodity

For capitalism life is a commodity, while for socialist peoples life is something sacred. Health is a human right and not a business, there the difference with some policies of imperialist countries ”, highlighted this Monday the Bolivian leader Evo Morales during his participation in the Dialogue of Civilizations conference organized in Caracas by the Samuel Robinson Institute.

In that sense, he explained that in socialist countries such as Cuba and Venezuela they have fought the COVID-19 pandemic better than other nations that are powers because “since the beginning of the pandemic in South American territory they have set an example of having fewer infections in comparison to some world powers and this is only because Venezuela and Cuba are countries that work for life, while the United States, for example, registers more deaths, since it has a government that is not aware of its people”.