Venezuelans met, within the framework of the global call made by the main opposition alliance.
Hundreds of Venezuelans demonstrated peacefully this Saturday in the Panamanian capital in rejection of what they consider to be a “fraud” in the elections, when the National Electoral Council (CNE) gave the victory to Nicolas Maduro while the opposition claims that its candidate Edmundo González Urrutia triumphed in those elections.
“I want them to recognize us internationally and not leave us alone. Don’t turn your back on us. Those elections in Venezuela were rigged. Edmundo (González Urrutia) won,” Genesis Pernia, one of the Venezuelans present and resident in Panama for almost a decade, told EFE.
Venezuelans met, within the framework of the world call made by the main opposition alliance, in a central public park in Panama City singing the anthem and dressed in the shirt of the football team – the “wine” -, Venezuelan flags, or garments with the national colors of the South American country.
“Fraud” or “I was born in Panama but I want to know a free Venezuela” are the messages that could be read on the posters of those present, some of them minors.
“The result of the CNE is an absolute brazen, a complete absurd one having the minutes (which demonstrate the triumph of opponent). That result is the demonstration of a trap,” Alberto Pérez, another of the Venezuelans concentrated there and who mired Panama a decade ago, said.
If you didn’t see it.
Thousands of Venezuelans demonstrated this Saturday in the main capitals and cities of the world as a sign of strength and unity against the “fraud” that the government of Nicolas Maduro committed in the presidential elections of July 28 and to demand opponent Edmundo González Urrutia as president-elect and winner of those elections.
In Caracas, the epicenter of the world call for that opposition alliance of Venezuela, the Platform of Democratic Unity (Pud) to demand the truth of victory in the presidential elections of July 28 and to express its dissent towards Nicolas Maduro, the great surprise was the reappearance of opposition leader María Corina Machado before thousands of her followers.
Machado, after two weeks in which he remained under guard, fearing for his “freedom and his life,” showed up again this Saturday in the already popular campaign truck, acclaimed by thousands of protesters who responded to his call to continue the peaceful protest, accompanied by several opponents, such as Delsa Solórzano, Biagio Pilieri or César Pérez Vivas, among others.
This article has been translated after first appearing in Panama American