translated from Spanish: Maduro’s message to migrants: “Venezuela is much more beautiful than where you are washing potes”

Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro has blamed the migrants who speak “evil” of the country and urged them to return, arguing that “Venezuela is much more beautiful than where they are washing pots (inodoros)”.” There is still a long way to go, but whoever has left the country, well, some people who have left the country, are getting to speak badly about Venezuela,” Maduro said Thursday at an act of delivering public housing.” You know Venezuela only by social media, leave the talk (…) Venezuela is much more beautiful than the countries where you are, foul spoken. Venezuela is much more beautiful than where you are washing pots,” she has argued. Thus, he urged them to return “so that they may see the happiness of the people of Venezuela.” “In bad weather, good face,” said the ‘chavista’ leader. His words have had a swift response from the Venezuelan opposition. “It’s preferable to ‘washing pocetas’ than laundering money from drug trafficking,” said former metropolitan mayor of Caracas Antonio Ledezma on Twitter. “Certainly there are thousands of Venezuelans working very hard to survive this banishment,” he stressed. In recent years, more than four million Venezuelans have fled the political and economic crisis that is swaying the Caribbean nation, mostly on its to neighbouring countries such as Colombia or Brazil. The United Nations estimates that, if the trend continues, it will reach six million by 2020.

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