Zapatero defends the Nicolás Maduro regime: "I am saddened by the opinion of people who have not been there" | Last minute Venezuela

Former Spanish President José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero has once again come out in defense of Nicolás Maduro, wondering “how many of all those great advisers who speak out every day and great strategists of the North American administration know Venezuela and how many have spoken with a Venezuelan, who does not be just one of those who mark a line. “In his opinion,” we have the fundamental responsibility in a friendly country and an important brother such as Venezuela, to bet on peace, not on force; by dialogue and not by confrontation; for the aid and not for the sanctions; those are my convictions about Venezuela after an intense knowledge. “” Of course, it makes me very sad to see many opinions that are pronounced on Venezuela by people who have never been there, “he said. Zapatero has charged against Trump, who for him is a “real disaster for Venezuela”, and has considered that the last “route” that has been tried to start “is not going to work.” Zapatero has answered in this way in a contact with the media in Murcia and when asked in case you feel alluded to by former President Felipe González when he affirms that it is obvious that Nicolás Maduro “is going to leave”, and when he leaves “all the horror will surface”, so that “it will not be acceptable” that there are people who say He did not know. “He knows that I have a very clear position that also differs very clearly, perhaps because I have been many times in recent years” to Venezuela, Zapatero pointed out in this regard. “I think I will be one of the Spaniards who has been in Venezuela the longest in the last four years and, therefore, I presume that this data deserves a certain respect,” he asserted.«I have no, but no doubt, that the route that has been tried will not work and that sooner or later there will be a dialogue, a negotiation and a coexistence agreement, because we are talking about a country that deserves; people want peace “, remarked the former president of the Government. In this sense, he has opted to” move from confrontation to dialogue “and avoid” what represents a serious risk of civil confrontation “because, in his opinion,” there is no it is going to produce any path in fact, nor is it going to produce any change by force. “” I believe that Trump’s policy is a real disaster for Venezuela, a catastrophe without more, “according to Zapatero, who believes that,” surely , many of whom I hear about Venezuela every day have never been there. “He stressed that he has spent” surely more than 150 days of the last three years “in Venezuela and has stated emphatically that” you can only to bet from a perspective of affection “to that country” and what the Venezuelan people have been through, which is where we must put our main gaze. “In his opinion,” only negotiation, dialogue and agreement can be defended. All this, because any other alternative “will not prosper, as we are seeing and, of course, I hope that no one will bet that we will see a great civil conflict here.” Some of the things that the US administration “have been trying to do for a few months now, since President Trump put Venezuela on the object, are” very worrying “to him.