The power had mobilized its party and chartered buses to bring activists from all regions of the country.
Le Monde with AFP
Two processions beat the pavement in Caracas, Saturday, February 12, without crossing themselves. Thousands of supporters of power had made an appointment to celebrate World Youth Day, an important annual appointment in Venezuela and post support for President Nicolas Maduro.
Some 500 people had, gathered to manifest with the opposition to the authoritative regime currently in power.
Demonstration of force
Drums, Salsa, Venezuelan flags, Chaisists (named Hugo Chavez Figure from the latin-American radical left and deceased predecessor of Mr. Madaro) performed some sort of force demonstration in the streets of the capital. The power had mobilized its party and chartered buses to bring activists from all regions of the country. “Chavez gives the tone, maduro is driving”, could we read on a banner.
The re-election of Nicolas Maduro to the Presidency of Venezuela in 2018 is not recognized by part of the international community and in particular the United States seeking to oust power that they qualify as “dictator”. In November 2021, the International Criminal Court of Hague opened an investigation of possible crimes against humanity committed under Nicolas Maduro.
Lack of “Respect for the Rule of Law”
Not far from there, some 500 opponents, whose opposition leader Juan Guaido, gathered for a shorter parade. Guaido, who had proclaimed the acting president of the country to try to oust President Nicolas Maduro and had been confirmed in this position for one year in early January by the National Assembly, without power, delivered a speech calling for ” the unit “of the opposition. He also promised to revive street demonstrations, who had shaken the power in 2019 but who ended up steaming: “We will return (…) to the place where the freedoms are exercised: the street”.
The November regional elections, where the opposition, divided, was defeated, were tained by “lack of judicial independence and respect for the rule of law” in Venezuela, according to the Human Rights Organization Watch, who published in January a report on fundamental freedoms in South America.