The United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) has expressed its support for the reform of the Constitutional Law Against Hatred, for Peaceful Coexistence and Tolerance—an initiative currently being advanced by the National Assembly (AN) through a public consultation process aimed at drafting a report for its second plenary discussion.
Thus was announced by the Secretary-General of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), Diosdado Cabello, during a press conference. He emphasized that the law against hatred, its scope and action is directed at «purveyors of hatred,» because they have turned politics into exactly that.
«The party’s position is one of a block of support for this process. As for those who currently argue that the law against hatred should not be amended or reformed but rather repealed, one need only to review their actions from 2002 to the present to see just how much hatred they have promoted,» Cabello asserted.
He pointed out that these sectors which fostered hatred, burned human beings alive, planted bombs, strung up tripwires across roads, and deployed snipers. Furthermore, they persecuted and murdered individuals.
«What they want is to continue burning human beings alive without anyone punishing them. To suggest that placing a tripwire across a road constitutes ‘high-level politics’ is simply a convenient way to evade responsibility,» he added.
Additionally, he expressed the PSUV’s desire for those engaged in politics within the Venezuelan opposition to «set hatred aside and practice real politics, without fabrications, manipulations, or lies.»