MADRID 29 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado has responded to the accusation of “treason to the country” that the Venezuelan authorities leveled against her last week, after she gave support to the US law that vetoes contracts with people linked to the Government of President Nicolás Ripe.
“Let them accuse us of treason on the day we stand with our arms crossed, when we believe there is nothing more to fight for. Then, accuse us of betraying the country, when we resign ourselves to seeing how injustice crushes those who dream, when we stop believing that this country will be free. Condemn us for betraying the country, when we do not feel the same pain, the same rage and above all the same love for this land where we were born”, has pointed out on his social network account X.
In a video, Machado has addressed the Government of President Nicolás Maduro, ensuring that the opposition is not going to “give him the pleasure” of “resigning” because doing so “would be betraying” the country. “We are going to defend it until the end,” he concluded.
These are the opposition’s first public statements after the Venezuelan Prosecutor’s Office announced last Friday that it will begin an investigation against her for supporting the Bolívar Law, an initiative recently approved by the United States House of Representatives that prohibits their administrations hire people linked to the “illegitimate government of Nicolás Maduro.”
In this context, the Venezuelan authorities identified Machado as the author of the crimes of treason, conspiracy with foreign countries and association to commit a crime.