The Madrid Forum organized by Vox accuses the European Union and Spain of “ambiguity” in Venezuela | EUROtoday

The assembly of far-right events organised by Vox for 3 years closed in Buenos Aires with reproaches to the European Union and, above all, “the Spanish government” for its “ambiguity” within the face of the electoral disaster in Venezuela. “We will not rest until the decision of the Venezuelan people, expressed massively in the elections of July 28, is accepted by the dictatorial regime of Nicolás Maduro,” says the ultimate declaration of the Madrid – Río de la Plata Forum 2024, learn earlier than a half-full auditorium by deputy Santiago Abascal. The president of Vox demanded the popularity as “elected and legitimate president of Venezuela of Edmundo González Urrutia,” the opposition candidate to Chavismo. The state of affairs in Venezuela, the place Maduro has proclaimed himself the winner of the elections of July 28 amid accusations of fraud by the opposition, hovered over a lot of the dialogue tables of the Forum. But there was additionally ruthless criticism in opposition to the governments of Colombia, Brazil, Chile and Mexico, in addition to Spain. According to the far-right, all these nations are ruled by presidents linked to “organized crime” who apply “methods to destroy democracies from power.”

The Madrid Forum opened on Thursday with an extended speech by the President of Argentina, Javier Milei. “One of our own,” stated Abascal earlier than giving him the chance to take the stage on the Palacio Libertad, a big constructing from the start of the final century that till December was known as the Kirchner Cultural Center. Milei railed in opposition to politicians, businessmen and journalists, known as Maduro a “murderer” and lamented that there have been nonetheless, in his opinion, “degenerates” who “have nostalgia for the Bolivarian revolution,” began within the early 2000s by Hugo Chávez in Venezuela. Venezuela was the main focus of the panel on Friday. Europe within the face of the continent's liberticidal regimes. Hermann Tertsch, a MEP for Vox, accused Josep Borrell and his predecessor as EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs, Federica Mogherink, of being “complices” of Venezuela and different governments akin to Cuba. “The EU has campaigned on the left. And all its degraded rivals, such as [Jair] Bolsonaro [en Brasil]. The campaign against Bolsonaro was a scandal,” he stated. Bolsonaro narrowly misplaced re-election in opposition to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in October 2022. In flip, Italian MP Carlo Fidanza, from the celebration of the President of the Council of Ministers of Italy, Giorgia Meloni, known as for the victory of Donald Trump within the presidential elections of November 5 within the United States. “Meloni in Italy, Milei in Argentina and Trump in the United States are the main messengers of the battle for freedom in the world,” stated Fidanza.

The ultimate declaration of the Madrid Forum held in Buenos Aires additionally attacked the São Paulo Forum and the Puebla Group, which it considers its rivals in a area that, in line with the intense proper, is within the fingers of a left that has as its solely goal to destroy democracy. The textual content assaults, by identify and surname, the Brazilian Lula, the Colombian Gustavo Petro, the Chilean Gabriel Boric and the president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, leaders who’re removed from having frequent positions on such sizzling subjects as Venezuela. While Boric, for instance, brazenly maintains that there was fraud in Venezuela and that Maduro “is not the left”, Petro, Lula and López Obrador are preventing to maintain open the opportunity of a dialogue between the Chavista regime and the opposition.

The events that make up the Madrid Forum additionally rejected what they think about “the penetration in Latin America and Europe of totalitarian powers and enemies of the West such as Iran, China and Russia that attack the sovereignty of nations as is happening with the invasion of Ukraine.” And they expressed their solidarity “with the people of Israel and their right to defend themselves.” The Latin American left-wing organizations, says the ultimate declaration, “collaborate with terrorism in all its forms” and keep “equidistance between the terrorism of Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran on the one hand and the democracy of Israel on the other.” They additionally voted for Trump as the one choice to cease his Democratic rival, Kamala Harris, accused of getting “a pro-socialist ideology, ties to the radical left and the desire to limit freedom of expression.”

“From Buenos Aires we proclaim that Ibero-America, a colossal moral and cultural reserve of the West, is gradually recovering democracy and the rule of law, pushing back 21st Century Socialism and emerging as a region where freedom, development and prosperity will prevail, as demonstrated by the case of Argentina under the government of Javier Milei,” says the textual content that closed the Madrid Forum. The Argentine has grow to be the worldwide determine of the intense proper, a mirror during which events that aspire to come back to energy of their respective nations look with hope. Milei is aware of his success, and on Thursday he proclaimed on the Palace of Liberty that he was on the head of “the best government in Argentine history.”

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