opposition lawmakers and citizens rallied Saturday against the attendance of the President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, during the speech of protest by Andrés Manuel López Obrador at the Palace Legislative de San Lázaro.
“Dictator, dictator,” shouted legislators of the National Action Party (PAN), carrying a blanket with enclosure a blanket with a photograph of the Venezuelan President and the message “Maduro are not welcome”, while Lopez Obrador welcomed the presence of Heads of States of the world.
Mature it became city of Mexico before noon and it did not attend the protest decision is expected to attend the private reception that will be held in the National Palace.
#MaduroNoEresBienvenido @NicolasMaduro began to divide the people, destroyed the economy, cracked down on Venezuelans and ended with the pic.twitter.com/envSvTy4Zi democracy – members of bread (@diputadospan) 1 December 2018 in his speech, Lopez Obrador He mentioned to Maduro directly when you enlisted to leaders attending his inauguration, so that members of the National Action Party (PAN) shouting “dictator”.
“Mature are not welcome”, said a huge blanket with an image of the Venezuelan who settled the PAN legislators, hard critic of the Venezuelan.
“We have rejected this invitation from the beginning. It seems an insult and an affront not only to all the people of Venezuela, but for the Democrats in this country”, said Josefina Vazquez Mota, who was presidential candidate in 2012, and now Senator from the bread, to qualify”dictator”to the Venezuelan.
At the hotel Imperial, on Paseo de la Reforma, a group of people protested against the Venezuelan President as well as Daniel Ortega, President of Nicaragua, who cancelled his attendance at the event.
“Dictators don’t can fight for the world as if the people were indolent”, said the demonstrators with banners that accused him of killer.
Prior to the ceremony, about 20 people attended front to the Chamber of Deputies against Maduro and upbraided him the economic crisis, the newspaper Reforma reported.
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But team Lopez Obrador refused to withdraw the invitation with the argument that ‘friend’ of all countries.
“We do not intervene in issues of countries and we are inviting the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela,” he said of his side Javier Jiménez Espriú, new Secretary of communications and transport.
Before the confirmation of the arrival of the President of the Venezuelan community in Mexico was called to carry out a sit-in and protest at 9 in the morning against the Imperial Hotel on Paseo de la Reforma.
In addition, academics signed a manifesto in which ensure that the visit of Maduro “in an act of democratic transfer of executive power is unacceptable. Our country not to legitimize a dictatorship”.
Venezuela supports an acute crisis with five years of recession, and inflation projected by the International Monetary Fund in 1,350,000% for 2018 and 10,000,000% in 2019.
Nicolás Maduro on arrival to Palace Nacional.Algunos welcomed Maduro or repressive or Bandit, Maduro is welcome! It said a group of people coming from the municipality of Chalco, State of Mexico, which gave the Venezuelan President welcomes you to the National Palace.
“President Nicolas Maduro will always be welcome to Mexico, like our President, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, he fights and defends his people, which is against the Yankees interests for them”, said the Lady Martina Reyes.
A large banner which reads “Mature President, the people of Zapata welcomes”, heads the manifestations of support to the politician who took over administrative and economic functions of their nation during the illness of President Hugo Chávez.
“We come from Chalco to express our support to comrade Maduro, primarily because Lopez Obrador has also left clear that he is welcome to Mexico and that our country will respect their stay and their presence as that of any other President or head of State” He added.
With information from Newsweek Mexico and Notimex.
