Álvaro Uribe’s message about the Venezuelan opposition

Former Colombian President Álvaro Uribe (2002-2010) said on Wednesday in Paraguay that the Venezuelan opposition, led by María Corina Machado, is the first democratic group that has managed to detect the “fraud of a communist dictatorship.” in an election.

“For the first time in my life, I have seen a democratic opposition detect the fraud of a communist dictatorship,” said Uribe in a talk on leadership that he gave at the 2024 edition of the Paraguayan Chamber of Supermarkets (Capasu) exhibition that is taking place in the city of Luque, approximately 20 kilometers from Asunción.

The Colombian politician was referring in this way to the controversial presidential elections in Venezuela on July 28.

“For the first time, Maria Corina and Edmundo’s organization is able to detect this fraud,” said the former president. He recalled that on other occasions the Venezuelan opposition also complained about “fraudulent” elections during the government of Hugo Chavez (1999-2013).

The main opposition coalition, the Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD), claims that González won the election by a wide margin after uploading 83.5% of the electoral records collected by witnesses and polling station members on a website.

The former Colombian president He stressed that the revelation of the alleged fraud reached “the point” that the presidents of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva; of Colombia, Gustavo Petro; and of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, “could not recognize the fraudulent victory of Maduro,” a habitual ally of the three leftist leaders.

According to Uribe, “we have to learn a lot” from Machado because he delivered a “perfect” speech that confronts the leadership of Chavismo and not its social base.

“I think that the discourse of the last few years has been perfect, a discourse that allowed him to build a large opposition, adding his own to the Chavista bases that came to him,” he analyzed.

He also stressed that Machado, who was disqualified from holding public office by the Supreme Court of Venezuela last January, managed to articulate a discourse of unity that rules out revenge in the exercise of a possible government.

“A very beautiful speech about family, about the union of Venezuelans; and Edmundo supports her in that, because he says: Ours will not be a government of revenge,” the politician reflected.