Outside countries after Maduro administration collapse: Commentator

Press TV has conducted an interview with Marcelo Sanchez, a political commentator in Tehran, to discuss a recent report saying Venezuela’s top court has ruled out all actions of the opposition-held National Assembly as null and void.

The following is a rough transcription of the interview.

Press TV: The fact that Venezuela’s top court has ruled out all actions of the opposition as null and void in the assembly, doesn’t that prove that it is biased against the opposition?

Sanchez: Well, … Western media are dismissing this situation as something like hot-headed politics in Venezuela and they are trying to portray the opposition as they are trying to fight for freedom in the politics of Venezuela, but this is actually not true because before these elections we heard that the opposition was trying to recruit some of these judges and some of these legislators behind back doors and now they have this confrontational attitude against all the institutional order in Venezuela. Let’s just remember that there are not actual guidelines inside of the Supreme Court or the National Assembly saying that the opposition requires exact this number of legislators in order to have a super majority, but they do have the super majority anyway.

So you see this attitude of confrontation in two events before this situation that you described. First, the opposition in the National Assembly cut the audio microphones to the socialists in order to attempt to create some kind of difficult situation in the first assembly, and second, the order to remove the portraits of president Chavez and Simon Bolivar from the National Assembly. Now this is really an insult to whole Latin America because unless the opposition in Venezuela is siding with Spanish monarchy, they should not have removed the portrait of Simon Bolivar because he actually fought for the freedom of the region earlier in the independence wars.

And this timing of the opposition in order to claim that President Maduro controls the Supreme Court is just really part of this strategy that does not seek cooperation to solve the most important and urgent problems but also to create more division and more chaos and just probably try to take the people to the streets and see violence again and confrontation again.

Press TV: Mr. Sanchez very quickly if you can. Isn’t that what the people of Venezuela voted for when they voted in the opposition?

Sanchez: Well, Venezuelan people did not vote for opposition of the government; they just voted for solutions to the current economic crisis in Venezuela. And the economic crisis, if you analyze that, is not being promoted by the Maduro’s administration; the economic crisis is based on sanctions, based on pressure from outside countries that they are very interested to see that Maduro administration collapses, the 17 years of work of socialism collapses in Venezuela. They do not want these institutions; they so not want to see the education; they do not want to see this self-esteem of Venezuelan people rising again with socialism. They just want to break this legacy from Hugo Chavez and then from Maduro administration.

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