The President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, cited this Saturday “failures” of the group of former Latin American presidents who had been prevented from touring to the Caribbean nation, the place they’d deliberate to observe Sunday's elections on the invitation of the bulk opposition, since they might not legally register as observers.
Maduro, a candidate for re-election, stated he had seen on social media the “Present of failed former presidents, land sellers and puppies of the empire“, in reference to former presidents Mireya Moscoso of Panama, Miguel Ángel Rodríguez of Costa Rica, Jorge Quiroga of Bolivia and Vicente Fox of Mexico.
This group, which included former Colombian Vice President Marta Lucía Ramírez, later denounced the truth that the airplane they had been touring on from Panama was unable to take off on account of their presence on the airplane.
Final week, Venezuela issued a decree closing its borders to folks and autos from midnight Friday to eight a.m. Monday, July 29.
The rationale given was that this was the easiest way to take care of safety and shield the presidential elections this Sunday. In keeping with the decree issued by the Venezuelan Ministry of Protection, they intention to “shield the inviolability of the borders and forestall actions by individuals who might pose a menace to the safety of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela on the event of the presidency.”