President Maduro: US aggression against Venezuela has raised the consciousness of the Venezuelan people

“The aggression that we have lived from President Donald Trump has raised the conscience of the Venezuelan, has raised nationalism and patriotism to a much higher levels than we have lived these 20 years. A strong surprise in an electoral process in Venezuela would be taken by the forces that believe that they can win us an election”, said the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro Moros, during an interview granted to the journalist of the American agency Associated Press (AP), Ian Philips. President Maduro assured that if an electoral process were to be carried out to choose a new National Assembly, the revolutionary forces would rise with the victory, and he explained that in 20 years, the Bolivarian Revolution has won 23 elections, which makes them the strongest polical force in the country. “The Bolivarian forces have a real livelihood, we have gone through all the tests. We have 6 million 500 thousand militants in the United Socialist Party of Venezuela, we have a mobilized force”, he explained. On the other hand, the National President reiterated his readiness to enter into a dialogue, with an open agenda with the opposition sector in Venezuela, adding that he supports the initiative of the Montevideo Mechanism, represented by the governments of Mexico, Uruguay, Bolivia and the 14 governments. that make up the Caribbean Community (Caricom). “I am waiting for a dialogue table to be established, to convene us to a meeting to put a date on the table and to have early elections of the Parliament. As a first step so that through the electoral process we can resolve these matters ourselves, among Venezuelans, without the intervention of any foreign government”, he added. Similarly, the Head of State revealed that the Venezuelan Foreign Minister, Jorge Arreaza, met in New York City with the special envoy of the United States for Venezuela, Elliott Abrams. “I invited Elliott Abrams, to come to Venezuela in private, in public, in secret, or if he wants to meet him to say when, how and I go”, he said from the office one of the Miraflores Palace. Maduro reported that the government maintains permanent relations with James Story, Chargé d’Affaires of the US Embassy in Caracas, and is also negotiating the opening of offices of that country’s interests in Venezuela and Venezuela’s interests office in Washington. Regarding Donald Trump, he indicated that they have had indirect exchanges through people, however every time “I say that I believe in dialogue, in the word, they misinterpret and see weaknesses where there is not. When I say that I want to talk to Trump face to face, and I know we can understand each other, I say it from the strength of a revolutionary who comes from all battles, and who is capable of everything for his country”. Likewise, the Head of State reported that Venezuela is willing to have respectful relations with the United States government. “I believe that the 21st century can not be the century of gunboats, military invasions, coups d’état; It can not be the century of interventionism. No, neither coupism nor interventionism, nor invasions, nor war”, he concluded.