The former president of Uruguay José “Pepe” Mujica assured this Friday that Venezuela has an authoritarian government and that it “goes to the other side.”
“The misfortune of Venezuela is that it has a lot of oil and has felt surrounded. And it has an authoritarian government that goes the other way. But I learned this: in a besieged square, any dissident is a traitor,” the person who governed the South American country in the period 2010-2015 told the press.
Mujica was asked if there is a dictatorship in Venezuela, to which he responded: “Where does the concept of dictatorship originate? It was a decision of the Roman Empire when the potatoes were burning. They concentrated power and gave it to one guy just to command. No disagreement or anything. Closed order, because in moments of danger you cannot discuss, there has to be someone in charge. There the figure of the dictator was invented.”
And he added: “In Venezuela there is an authoritarian government. Call him a dictator, call him whatever you want.”
On the other hand, Mujica said that the vice president of Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, “lost her mind” when she said that the president of Uruguay, Luis Lacalle Pou, “has the face of a lackey.”
“This is not how you can talk about the presidents of America. You shouldn’t talk. Even for convenience and diplomatic reasons. His motorcycle went away,” he said.
Delcy Rodríguez asked Lacalle Pou this Monday to avoid “interfering” in the affairs of the Caribbean country and, instead, deal with the problems of his nation
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In 2019, the former Uruguayan president also referred to the Venezuelan crisis and recognized that the situation that the Caribbean country is going through is a “problem that is difficult to solve,” while considering that the only way out is “negotiation.”
In 2019, the former Uruguayan president also referred to the Venezuelan crisis and recognized that the situation that the Caribbean country is going through is a “problem that is difficult to solve,” while considering that the only way out is “negotiation.”
“With the world of confrontation we are going to hell, simply speaking. And when I say hell, I say that the ones who are going to get screwed (sic) are those who are in the poor area of the world,” he stated.
“When two elephants fight, the grass is poor and the ants are poor. Our line has to be the other; That’s why I hope there is a share of rationality,” she added.
Asked if he believes there is time for negotiation, Mujica said that “from a human point of view there is not that much time because you cannot subject a people to suffering so much uselessly,” but that there are other elements that influence.
“They thought that overturning Maduro was a piece of cake but he has nothing more and nothing less than the club, he has something that is the military structure; So we have to look for that structure itself to have a way out,” he assured.
By then, Mujica said that the Caribbean country suffered a kind of Dutch disease, since “Venezuela’s oil wealth in the long term ended up constituting a kind of poison for Venezuelan society,” by “deforming” the economy.
The former guerrilla also highlighted that this economic model, outlined by Chavismo (ruler since 1999), “ended up destroying” national work, mainly the sectors related to agricultural activity. “In the Venezuelan countryside there is no one, there is not a head of cattle, there is nothing,” he highlighted. For this reason, “when the oil price crisis occurs, Venezuela is left barefoot because it does not have internal food production and that cannot be fixed by magic,” said Mujica.
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