Jorge Rodríguez: Of the 5 points agreed in the dialogue process, MUD has violated 4 and a half


The Mayor of Caracas and member of the delegation of the Bolivarian Government at the dialogue table, Jorge Rodríguez, said that the Bolivarian Government will remain at the table of dialogue. “Despite the fact that from the 5 agreed points, the Democratic Unity Board (MUD) has violated 4 and a half, we have planted ourselves here.”
Rodríguez added that on November 12 they had a series of agreements “and among those there was the plenary meeting of today, December 6. We came to the convocation that made the former Pressidents, the companions and Monsignor Celli, the special envoy of the Holy Father Francis” but (members of) the MUD did not appeared.
“The MUD did not appeared, (they) did a whole series of subterfuges because such is the internal tension that is generated by their own dysfunctional character. There is a leading sector that wants violence now, where there is a situation of tremendous pugnacity between presidential pre-candidates for the presidential elections of 2018, which makes it very difficult, or creates obstacles to this dialogue initiative. That is the reason”.
The Mayor of Caracas said that “The spiral staircases of the Melia Caracas Hotel (the place where the dialogue talks were held) may have something that produces a kind of transformation, because the things that the Venezuelan right wing says up there are completely different from what they end up declaring down here.”
Rodríguez said that: “The Bolivarian Government and Venezuela will not bend nor will accept an ultimatum, nor any kind of pressure of any factual power in the whole world. The only commitment that has President Nicolás Maduro and that we the representatives of the Bolivarian Government have at the table of dialogue, is with the people of Venezuela who wants peace and insists on dialogue. “