The Venezuelan Foreign Minister, Félix Plasencia invited this Tuesday the Secretary of State of the United States, Antony Blinken, to build together “a path of dialogue and understanding” to dismantle the “wrong” path of “persecution” and sanctions against the Caribbean country.
“I invite you, I join the invitation made by President Nicolás Maduro, as his subordinate, (…) to also invite my counterpart authority, my colleague, foreign minister, head of the United States Department of State, to that we build a path of dialogue and respectful understanding between sovereign states,” the minister said in an interview broadcast by the state channel VTV.
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Plasencia urged Blinken to speak and dismantle the route that the US has marked with Venezuelawhich the foreign minister considers the South American country to be “persecuted.”
“Let’s talk together and dismantle together a wrong path of persecution and sanctions against the Venezuelan people, who have not achieved anything other than inflicting some pain, but whom we have resisted with love and hard work,” he added.
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Three years after the US and Venezuela broke off relations and entered into a permanent dispute that seemed to have no end, at the beginning of last March a high-level delegation from the North American country met in Caracas with President Nicolás Maduro, who transmitted his will to “advance an agenda that allows well-being and peace”.
“I ratify, as I told the delegation, all the will to, through diplomacy, respect and the greatest hope for a better world, be able to advance an agenda that allows for the well-being and peace of the peoples of our hemisphere, in our region,” said the president on March 8 in a statement from the Miraflores Palace, seat of the Executive.
Days later, the US assured that “it has not changed course” in its policy regarding Venezuela and urged that the “regime” resume the talks paused last year with the opposition in Mexico.
The United States’ complaints
The Government of Nicolás Maduro keeps “hundreds” of prisoners in prison in Venezuela for political reasons, many of them in “critical” conditions.
For its part, the United States Department of State denounced this Tuesday in its annual report on human rights that The Government of Nicolás Maduro keeps “hundreds” of prisoners in prison in Venezuela for political reasonsmany of them in “critical” conditions.
In the document relating to 2021, the United States mentioned figures from the Foro Penal organization according to which last October there were 260 political prisoners in the country, 50
of them “in critical health conditions”.
He stressed that the Maduro government “allowed some opposition candidates to participate” in the November regional elections, but “there were no conditions for free and fair elections.”
He also stated that the negotiations between the Executive and the opposition, which took place in Mexico between August and September, allowed some “exile figures” to return to the country.
“Despite these changes, the Maduro regime continued to keep hundreds of people in prison for political reasons and prevented hundreds of candidates from
of the opposition exercise all their rights to run,” he criticized.
The document further cited that members of the Venezuelan security forces “committed numerous violations” of human rights and that “the regime
de Maduro took no action to identify or investigate” these abuses.
Last month, two of 10 Americans jailed in Venezuela were freed after a delegation of US officials traveled to Caracas for a meeting with authorities from the Maduro government.
EFE
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