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Caracas.- Venezuela's largest opposition coalition said on Friday that its country continues to struggle to "open a certain path towards a transition", in a message regarding the 68th anniversary of the overthrow of Marcos Pérez Jiménez and when the acting president Delcy Rodríguez exercises power after the capture of Nicolás Maduro.
"Venezuela is going through a complex reality today. Democracy has not yet been restored and the country continues to struggle to open a certain path towards a transition that allows it to recover freedom, justice and the Rule of Law", said the Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD) in a statement released on its social media.
The opposition bloc, which includes leader María Corina Machado and Edmundo González Urrutia, indicated that the country needs a "redemocratization" and "legitimate" and "independent" institutions, and for this, it stated, "freedom, justice, solid institutions and clear rules that allow the voice of the people to be expressed with force" are required. "It's not about symbolic gestures or partial announcements, but about verifiable commitments that respond to the yearning of Venezuelan society," added the coalition, at a time when the Government has announced the release of political prisoners as a "gesture" to open spaces, although without publishing a list of those detained. In that sense, he insisted that "one cannot speak of democracy while more than 939 political prisoners exist today, nor while persecution and the use of the justice system as a tool of control persist." The PUD insisted that "the full and immediate release of those who remain deprived of their liberty for reasons of conscience is an indispensable condition for any serious process of democratic transition." On January 3rd, Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, were captured by US troops in an attack on Caracas and three states neighboring this capital. Subsequently, U.S. President Donald Trump said he would govern Venezuela until there was a "safe" transition. Following Maduro's arrest - subjected along with his wife to US justice - Chavista leader Delcy Rodríguez, until then executive vice president, was sworn in as acting president by order of the Supreme Tribunal of Justice (TSJ). The US ruler has described the acting president as "fantastic," with whom he has begun a rapprochement process dominated by the White House's interest in Venezuelan oil.
