Maràa Corina Machado: There will be primaries and I will win them
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- 19 Oct 2022
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María Corina Machado, political leader of the opposition, assures that the primaries that the Unitarian Platform plans to hold in 2023 will be “a spectacular organization opportunity for the struggle and make visible a majority that is fed up with this. And it gives us the opportunity for a new dialogue with the international actors who have also lost confidence, for the reasons that we all know with the current political leadership. If all these things are achieved, for the regime, these primaries are a great threat and it will do everything to prevent it. She defends her idea that it is necessary to privatize key sectors of the economy such as energy.
The coordinator of the political organization Vente Venezuela, María Corina Machado spoke with Tal Cual on various topics, including the recent remarks made by President Nicolás Maduro that her possible presidential candidacy is a "social threat."
In 2012, Machado competed for the presidential nomination in the primaries organized by the Democratic Unity Roundtable, where he obtained third place, with 3.7% of the vote. A decade later, she affirms that the primaries in preparation represent an opportunity for the opposition forces to unite and that she will win in the process.
She considers that those in power are beginning to understand that the situation in the country has changed and they need to analyze the environment, adapt and find the way in which they would face their political rivals.
She maintains that some state companies must be privatized, especially those that provide energy to the country, in order to optimize them to facilitate the reactivation of the industry.
—What is the x-ray that you do on the current situation in Venezuela?
-It is very painful. Just imagining what a person feels to make the decision to jump into the Darién, knowing what awaits him, is to imagine what life can be like here. I talked to people who have done it —some living experiences that I can't even relate because of how brutal it is— and they say: María Corina, I would do it again . What is really happening in the country that is trying to put up all this facade of normality and resignation, when deep down there is a very cruel, very painful reality that affects more than 90% of the country.
It terrifies me to see how there are people who say to you on the middle street: This is a country in which you have to think about the five million who have the capacity to consume . Are you erasing with a stroke of the pen 25 million Venezuelans who are here?
I believe that this dynamic has been designed by the regime so that all the internal and external pressure for its departure is reduced and it maintains its status quo in power, even if that implies the disappearance of Venezuela. I also see an enormous opportunity to stop this tragedy and that it implies the displacement of the system, which is much more than the regime and the beginning of the reconstruction of a republic. Read More…
