The president in charge of Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, proposed this Friday that a “true political dialogue” be convened that includes both “coinciding” and “divergent” political sectors, a task that she entrusted to her brother and president of Parliament, Jorge Rodríguez.
“I want to urge the president of the National Assembly, Jorge Rodríguez, (…) to immediately call for a meeting with all political sectors of the country,” said Rodríguez during the installation of the Program for Coexistence and Peace, an event broadcast by the state channel Venezolana de Televisión (VTV).
Likewise, he asked that this dialogue have “immediate concrete results” and that it be Venezuelan, that is, he explained, that “external orders are no longer imposed, neither from Washington, nor from Bogotá nor from Madrid.”
“The country asks for it, for the common good of Venezuela,” added the interim president, who took office after the capture of Nicolás Maduro in Caracas on January 3 by the United States.
Delcy Rodríguez framed this task in the Program for Coexistence and Peace, which will be coordinated – she said – by the Venezuelan Minister of Culture, Ernesto Villegas, and will be made up of several country officials, as well as businessmen and academics, although she stated that the list was not closed.
As he explained, the idea is to “make a 100-day plan” that will have as its “first task” the “mapping of violence and political, economic and social hatred in Venezuela,” although he did not specify when it will begin.
The president in charge claimed to have shared “different visions” with the people of the Program for Coexistence and Peace, but “with a common goal,” which is, she stressed, the peace of Venezuela.
“But peace understood in its broad dimension. It is not only political, social, economic peace, it is peace in all its dimensions,” he said.
More than 600 released
The president also stated that 626 people have been released so far in the country and has announced a call with the office of the UN High Commissioner, Volker Türk, to verify the list of those released.
“There are anti-political sectors that have not understood the moment, there are sectors that persist in manipulating and maneuvering with figures through lies,” Rodríguez added.
