The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, announced on Wednesday that his first decision after taking office this Friday for his third term will be to sign a decree to call for a constitutional reform with the aim of “clearly defining the Venezuelan development model in the coming years.” 30 years.”
“The first decree that I will sign will be establishing a broad national and international commission to carry out a major constitutional reform with debate and dialogue from all sectors,” he said without offering further details during an official event broadcast on national television.
Maduro acknowledged that during the night of Tuesday and early Wednesday morning, arrests were made to dismantle “a foreign mercenary aggression financed by the outgoing government of the United States” and specified that of the seven mercenaries who were capturedone is a senior FBI official and the other a US military officer.
On Tuesday, he reported that between November and December his government captured 125 mercenaries of various nationalities “who came to practice terrorism against the people of Venezuela.”
“We have avoided a civil war and we have defeated them in all scenarios, and in this historic era we are going to defeat them again, the extremists,” he insisted this Wednesday.
In addition, he asked to present “as soon as possible” a special law on the functioning of the country’s Comprehensive Defense Management Bodies, as the highest body of the State to exercise its “legitimate right to defense.”
Both Maduro and opposition leader Edmundo González Urrutia, recognized as president-elect by several governments, claim victory in the July 28 presidential elections.
Despite the insistence of the international community, which requested transparent and verifiable results, the electoral body did not disclose disaggregated data, but the opposition published minutes that its table witnesses kept.
González Urrutia, who began a tour that has taken him to Argentina, Uruguay, the United States and Panama, with the aim of seeking political support for January 10, has expressed his intentions to return to the country this week to take office, but He has not revealed details about how he plans to enter.
In recent hours, various organizations have denounced the forced disappearance of politicians and defenders of fundamental rights, and have expressed concern about an escalation of repression in the country.
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