PM Gonsalves speaking to regional television Telesur, urged dialogue instead of interventionism in Venezuela, saying, “Where you have a sharp conflict between the political forces in a democracy … have a conversation, a dialogue where you can improve relations until the time comes for elections or if there’s an agreement between both the sides to have an earlier elections, but the constitution has to be followed.”
Prime Minister Gonsalves labelled calls for regime change in Venezuela as, “absolutely ridiculous and absurd,”. and said OAS head Luis Almagro had disappointed him.
He also told Telesur Television in an interview that OAS head Luis Almagro had disappointed him.
“I voted for the secretary general because he was the foreign minister of “Pepe” of Uruguay, in fact, Venezuela said that he was a good man and see what happened now. We make mistakes sometimes.”
Gonsalves also accused Almagro of “mobilised the elements within the OAS against sovereignty, independence, democracy and people’s right to pursue their own path”.
Venezuela’s embattled president issued a decree on Monday for writing a new constitution, ratcheting up a political crisis that has drawn hundreds of thousands of anti-government protesters into the streets.