It breaks me when they play democracy

He Former Uruguayan president José “Pepe” Mujica He alluded to the political crisis in Venezuela, which arose after the presidential elections of July 28, and expressed his dissatisfaction with the position adopted by Nicolás Maduro upon being declared the winner of those elections.

“What bothers me is when they play democracy and hold elections. And, according to the result, I alter it, I do fraud or I send myself a shit. Either one thing, or the other,” he expressed in an interview with El País of Uruguay.

Mujica stated that for some time he has had no communication or dialogue with Maduro, whose country had been a support for the Uruguayan left. “I had a connection with (Hugo) Chávez, that wasn’t the same. Chávez lost an election and banked it”, remarked the former president.

However, Mujica specified the scope of his comment: “I want to be very clear, because I preserve something of the old blacksmithism. I give my opinion, but I don’t get involved. There is no right to interfere” in what happens in another country.

Mujica about Cuba

During the interview, the Uruguayan expressed about Cuba: “More than 60 years ago they defined the dictatorship of the proletariat and the single party… It doesn’t work, but they defined it.”

And he insisted: “I don’t agree as a method… But China has the same thing, Vietnam has the same thing, and we don’t say anything. We are masks, we negotiate with them, and everything is fine.