Vargas Llosa alludes to what happened with Brexit and warns that nationalisms “can destroy the EU project”
MADRID, 16 Apr. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo López has warned this Friday that there is a “global project to undermine democracies” and has asked for help to fight against the “tyranny” of Nicolás Maduro because, as he stressed, the freedom of Venezuela “is not an issue. on the right or on the left, but it is a matter of freedom and democracy. “
This is how it was pronounced in the conference ‘Populisms ¿A threat to democracy’ organized by the Concordia y Libertad Foundation presented by the leader of the PP, Pablo Casado. The Nobel Prize for Literature, Mario Vargas Llosa, also participated in the event.
López, national coordinator of the Popular Will Party of Venezuela, has pointed out that the populism that began in Venezuela with Hugo Chávez “led to tyranny.” “In Venezuela you cannot even talk about populism because it would be to be benevolent with what happens there. It is a criminal tyranny,” he added.
“The origin was undoubtedly populism, which undermined and defeated the structure in the democracies that we have. But that is happening in Europe and in Latin America, with international support in which democracy has been relativized,” he said.
In this sense, he stressed that governments, parliaments, the media, the productive sector have to become “aware” that they are living a moment in history in which “there is a global project to undermine democracies and undermine them from within, with the tools of the popular vote, of free communication, of the State institutions “.
Thus, Leopoldo López has indicated that they are “using the tools of democracy to undermine them, destroy them and lead the countries to a destination of misery” as, as he has said, has already happened in Venezuela.
However, he has said that he does not “lose faith” and has the “certainty that they will achieve freedom.” And he stressed that it is a task for “many” to ensure that “the case of Venezuela becomes a case for the freedom of the whole world.” “The freedom of Venezuela is not an issue of the right or the left, but rather it is a matter of freedom and democracy,” he assured.
López – who has recounted in detail the situation in Venezuela since Hugo Chávez came to power in 1999 – has expressed his gratitude for the support of the “democracies of the world” and “the recognition that the National Assembly has received and Juan Guaidó “, but has admitted that everything has been left in the statements and” it is not enough. “
At this point, he has appealed to all the “democratic parties” that can help in the “cause of the liberation of Venezuela” in order to “be able to have free elections and get out of a criminal dictatorship” that has generated “pain, desolation and sadness “to the Venezuelan people. “We cannot do it alone, we need your help and your determination in this fight,” he demanded.
VARGAS LLOSA: POPULISM “A DISEASE OF DEMOCRACY”
For his part, the writer Mario Vargas Llosa has affirmed that populisms have existed “forever” and are “a disease of democracy.” “And they are very closely linked to nationalism,” he added.
After alluding to what has happened with Brexit in the United Kingdom, he pointed out that nationalisms “can destroy the project of the European Union” and has assured that it is “very important that the countries where freedom and democracy were born are present in the future of humanity “.
In addition, the Nobel Prize in Literature has alluded to what already happened in the last elections in the United States, “modulating public opinion in a very discreet way.” In his view, populism can now come through the media in an “insidious, deceitful and extraordinarily discreet” way.
MARRIED: “HEROES DE LA LIBERTAD”
During the colloquium, Casado valued the presence of Varga Llosa, an “emblem of freedom and letters” that is already “the national heritage of all Spaniards”, and of Leopoldo Lopez and his father, a PP MEP, to those he has described as “heroes of freedom”.
As he did in the Plenary of Congress this week, the PP leader has reiterated his request to the Government so that the president in charge of Venezuela, Juan Guaidó, be invited to the Ibero-American Summit to be held next week and that “the assistance from a satrap like Nicolás Maduro “. In addition, he has assured that Spain “has to lead the international response to Maduro’s tyranny.”
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