Noboa believes that the way to remove Maduro may not have been the best, but it generated hope

Davos (Switzerland),.- The president of Ecuador, Daniel Noboa, said this Tuesday at the World Economic Forum in Davos that the way in which the former Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro was deposed, in a U.S. military operation on January 3, may not have been the best, but that this change has brought hope to the Venezuelan people.

"We could dream of a better way of doing things, but the result is that the population now sees hope and light at the end of the tunnel", declared the president during a session of the Davos Forum dedicated to Latin America. He maintained that Venezuelans elected a president (Edmundo González) in elections held in July 2024, but "the results were not respected by the dictatorship." He considered that at that moment the principle of autonomy recognized to the peoples was broken, because the population of Venezuela "became a hostage in a regime that decided it was not going to leave". Noboa recalled that in Ecuador there are half a million Venezuelans and considered that "the majority of them are very happy with this result (the fall of Maduro)". Furthermore, the Ecuadorian president addressed in the formal conversation he held at the Davos Forum the issue of insecurity suffered by his country, pointing out that it is not simple criminality, but terrorism. "We are in a period of war against terrorism. This is not about gangs, but solid narcoterrorist groups, we have 65,000 armed men and women and it is very difficult to fight them in a traditional way," he affirmed. He continued to assert that it is "a war that is not only in the streets, but also in the courts and in the media, on social networks, it is a complete war against evil and narcoterrorism".