Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado called for a demonstration this Wednesday ahead of the upcoming presidential inauguration, scheduled for January 10. She invited citizens to take to the streets at the same time to sing the national anthem.

“All of Venezuela will be in the streets, coming together in a beautiful and powerful ritual of freedom, in all the towns and cities across Venezuela and in all the cities around the world where there is a Venezuelan. At the same time, we will shout ‘Gloria al Bravo Pueblo’,” said Machado in a video posted on X.

The former legislator emphasized that “freedom” depends on everyone, while pointing out that “the key” is to act in coordination.

“Wherever you are, whether in a small village in Amazonas or in Maracaibo, in Tenerife or in Lima, this is the most important task of our lives, and we have it right here, ahead of us, in just a few days,” she added.

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro stated this Wednesday that “all” the individuals “murdered” during the protests against the official outcome of the presidential elections were “victims” of the “comanditos” – political groups organized by the campaign of opposition candidate Edmundo González Urrutia.

“All the people killed in the violent events of the fascist outbreak on July 29 and 30, all were victims of these groups called the comanditos, these paid criminal groups, these groups that took to the streets to burn, to destroy,” said Maduro in an interview with Ignacio Ramonet, broadcast on the multi-state channel Telesur.

Maduro assured that the Venezuelan justice system has conducted a “thorough investigation” into these events, “even adhering to international standards, to identify those responsible for the acts of violence.”

The Venezuelan president claimed that these opposition groups intended to provoke “a major commotion” in order to – as he added – provide a justification for the United States and its right-wing allies to try to send military force into Venezuela and turn it into a zone of instability.

Colombian President Gustavo Petro recalled the Cuban Revolution on its 66th anniversary this Wednesday, stating that it “marked the contemporary history of Latin America.”

“Heir to the struggle for Cuba’s independence from Martí and Maceo and the European working-class fight against fascism, the Cuban revolution triumphed against a dictatorship. It marked the contemporary history of Latin America. Revolutions and dictatorships erupted,” Petro wrote in a message on the social media platform X.

The president added that only Salvador Allende in Chile “managed to propose a peaceful path, but it was drowned in blood.”

“It is now that we debate whether in Latin America, a democratic and peaceful pact is possible that can propel it to be a leading voice for humanity,” he continued, reflecting on the Cuban Revolution.

The armed uprising against the government of President and dictator Fulgencio Batista, which brought Fidel Castro to power, triumphed on January 1, 1959.

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