( Spanish) –– Chilean President Gabriel Boric said Tuesday that his country is closely following the “critical situation” in Venezuela and reiterated his call for a political solution to the crisis that “recognizes the victory of the opposition.”
During his speech at the 79th General Assembly of the United Nations (UN), Boric called the government of Nicolás Maduro a “dictatorship” and described it as “indifferent” to the exile of millions of its citizens.
“Chile is particularly attentive to the critical situation in Venezuela. We are facing a dictatorship that intends to steal an election, that persecutes its opponents, and that is indifferent to the exile of not thousands, but millions of its citizens. A political solution to this crisis is needed, one that recognizes the victory of the opposition in the last elections and carries out a peaceful transition to a proper democracy,” said the Chilean president.
has requested comment from Venezuela’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs to learn its response to Boric’s comments.
Boric also called for respect for human rights “regardless of the political color” of the government that violates them.
“As a young, Latin American, left-wing president, I say loud and clear that human rights must always be respected everywhere. And we must demand this respect regardless of the political color of the dictator or president in power who violates them. The Palestinian teenager murdered in Gaza, the Venezuelan worker forced to migrate from his homeland, the Ukrainian child kidnapped by Russia, the dissident silenced in Nicaragua, or the woman expelled from school in Afghanistan just for being a woman are, above all, human beings,” he said.
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