Machado assures that the Maduro government is “on the ropes” and that the “winning round” is coming

The Venezuelan opposition leader, María Corina Machado, assured this Monday that the members of Nicolás Maduro’s government know that their days “are numbered”, and that new actions will be taken to take the “winning round.”

“We know that this is the most difficult moment, we know the risks and we have assumed them. That is why we are mounted in the ring, fighting (…) with the determination that, if we do not win in the first or second round, we will win in the third or fourth, but we will win, because we already have them on the ropes” , he said in reference to a boxing fight.

“I’m not going to stop, and I know you won’t either. New actions are coming, the winning round is coming and I need you all strong and ready physically, mentally, and above all spiritually so that each of us can do our part,” he said in an audio released on his social networks without offering more details.

Machado, winner of the opposition presidential primary, but disqualified from holding public office, assured that Maduro’s government is isolated.

According to him, he was reduced to a “criminal dome,” while more and more countries recognize as president-elect the opposition leader who is credited with the victory in the July 28 elections, Edmundo González Urrutia.

“They will never show the minutes that prove their overwhelming defeat (…) the next president Donald Trump, about to be sworn in in a few days, wants them, and he has already warned them what is coming,” he said.

Machado, who after participating in an opposition protest, last week came out of the clandestinity in which he had remained since August, assured that the government has nothing left to confuse and scare.

“They generate hundreds of thousands of fake news stories and videos. “They try to confuse you, demoralize you,” he assured, in apparent reference to the video released earlier by the Ministry of the Interior and Justice of Venezuela, in which it shows the moment in which, he assured, one of the drivers of the motorcycles that accompanied him was arrested. to Machado last week and that He would have been wounded by a gunshot.

On Friday, Machado reported that she was intercepted, captured and later released after leaving a mobilization she called in Caracas, one day before Maduro was sworn in for a third term.

Another country “from Miami”

For his part, Maduro said this Monday that he faces “a multiform war” from his opponents, whom he accused of trying to “create a parallel country from Miami.”

During the presentation of the National Culture Award, the president said that Venezuelan Chavismo is winning this “war,” but admitted that it has been “a very strong fight.”

Both Maduro and González Urrutia, recognized as president-elect by several governments, claim victory in the presidential elections on July 28.

Despite the insistence of the international community that requested transparent and verifiable results, the electoral body did not disclose disaggregated data, but the opposition published minutes that its table witnesses kept.

The retired ambassador, 75 years old, who had assured that he would return to Venezuela to assume the position of president on January 10, announced that the trip was postponed for security reasons, and insisted that he continues to work on the conditions to achieve re-entry into Venezuela. his country and take office.

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