The Venezuelan opposition continues to rely on the “good offices” of the international community. So much so that has been quite demanding with Gustavo Petro to ask him to intercede for the Venezuelan electoral process given the rapprochement that his government has had with that of Nicolás Maduro. Petro, in fact, met again this week with Maduro. This is the fifth meeting that both leaders have held in the last two years.
And it is that When the Colombian president referred to the disqualification of María Corina Machado as something undemocratic, Maduro's opponents celebrated. However, on his recent visit to Caracas, Petro avoided meeting with them and only met with the governor of Zulia and presidential candidate, Manuel Rosales.
“Petro did not meet with the opposition. Governor Rosales does not represent the opposition today,” said Corina Yoris, who had been designated by Machado as his replacement for the presidential candidacy.
In an interview with EL TIEMPO, Yoris referred to the meeting that the Colombian president had with the questioned governor of Zulia, who assures that he registered his candidacy to “not leave Venezuelans without options.”
“We have not been, at any time, called for any meeting, in such a way that he did not meet with the opposition,” Yoris insisted on Petro. For Machado's standard bearer, the opposition is made up of the Unitary Platform.
On the other hand, Yoris hopes that the meeting was to ask Rosales “to get closer to the real opposition. I think that drawing conclusions is risky,” said Yoris.
For Rommer Ytriago, a specialist in international law and politics at the Central University of Venezuela, President Gustavo Petro gave those statements about Machado “knowing that he himself is one of the main leaders of the Latin American left who in principle claimed that leadership in around all the countries of this same worldview.”
According to the analyst, Petro's claims have been left behind because the left “seems to maintain several nuances, like the São Paulo Forum, and like the Socialist International. But still, Gustavo Petro has danced between what he should be as a democratic leader and what his own worldview is to which he subscribes.”
In any case, the countdown is already active. On July 28, Venezuela will elect a president and if the current situation continues, without a firm strategy from the opposition, the country is heading towards six more years of Maduro in power.
ANA MARÍA RODRÍGUEZ BRAZÓN – EL TIEMPO CORRESPONDENT – CARACAS
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