“We're going to get through this, the president is going to return”: message from Maduro's son after his capture in Venezuela

Caracas, Venezuela.- Nicolás Maduro Guerra, son of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, broke the silence after the capture of his father and his wife, Cilia Flores, by United States, in a message in which he assured that they will come out victorious and a call to popular mobilization. "I swear it on my life, I swear it on my dad, I swear it on Silvia, that we are going to get out of this... President Nicolás Maduro is going to return, he is going to return," he affirmed in an audio circulating on social media. Maduro Guerra maintained that the moment has been one of "shock" and acknowledged that the capture represented a hard blow for the ruling party. However, he reiterated the call for civic-military unity and summoned Chavismo supporters to take to the streets on January 4th and 5th. "They want to see us weak, they are not going to see us weak, they are not going to do it. That it hurts us, of course it hurts us, of course it pisses us off, but they will not be able to, don't mess around.... Tomorrow, January fourth and January fifth, we are going to the street, we are going to call our people, we are going to unite, to nucleate around our high political military command with maximum unity," he expressed. In his message, he also rejected attempts at internal division and warned that, in his opinion, time will be in charge of pointing out responsibilities. Finally, he reaffirmed his personal and family commitment to the Chavista project. “I am firm, we are firm, my family is firm, firm, hard… In the name of God. A hug,” he concluded.

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