Venezuelan opposition ‘poisoned’ Latin American right with ‘fascism’, says Maduro

The president of Venezuela, Nicolas Madurohe said – hours before the presidential elections in his country – that the “extremist right” – referring to the majority anti-Chavez – “poisoned” the right in Latin America with “fascism.”

“The extremist Venezuelan right has poisoned the entire Latin American right with radicalism and fascism,” said Maduro, the official candidate, during a meeting with 910 international companions from more than 100 countries, legally invited by the electoral power” for the elections.

Likewise, the head of state, who is seeking a third consecutive term, said that “these fascist currents” in the Latin American region “were born” in Venezuela, and mentioned Argentine President Javier Milei and former presidents Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil, Álvaro Uribe and Iván Duque of Colombia.

“These monsters were suckled by the monsters and the little monsters here.“said Maduro, who described Sunday’s elections as “a historic moment” because today – he said – “what will be decided is whether the continent continues on its own path, independent, sovereign, in peace, (…) or whether fascism prevails.”

In this regard, he said: “The decision has been made, I tell you, I cannot say more because there is an electoral ban. This people has decided, this people wants peace, they want democracy, they want tranquility, they want to be respected in the world, they want to be part of the emerging world and not a colony of the old imperial world.”

Besides, He said that Venezuela has an “alternative model to the neoliberal extremism of the wild capitalism of the Milei.”

During the electoral campaign, which ended last Thursday, the Chavista leader asked his followers at his events if they wanted “what is happening in Argentina to happen in Venezuela” and for the Caribbean country to “become the social disaster of Milei’s Argentina,” whom he called a “bastard.”

Ten candidates will compete in Sunday’s elections, including the candidate of the main opposition coalition – the Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD) – Edmundo González Urrutia.