Cities from at least 24 countries – except Venezuela – will join the march called for next December 6, four days before the delivery, in Norway, of the Nobel Peace Prize awarded this year to the Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, her political party reported this Monday.
The communications team of Vente Venezuela (VV) told EFE that the “uncertainty and repressive escalation in Venezuela does not yet allow for the announcement of concentrations within the country,” until the “safety of the people who would mobilize” can be guaranteed.
“There are still five days left and we hope that conditions change so that Venezuelans can also join in this recognition that belongs to the entire population,” the training stated.
In Spain, there are 20 cities where the opposition’s followers will gather, including Madrid, Barcelona, Alicante, Zaragoza and Valencia, according to a map released to the media by VV.
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Other cities are Medellín and Bogotá (Colombia), Boa Vista and Brasilia (Brazil), Buenos Aires and Córdoba (Argentina), Lima and Arequipa (Peru), La Paz and Sucre (Bolivia), Asunción and Encarnación (Paraguay), Santiago (Chile), Montevideo (Uruguay) and Quito (Ecuador).
Likewise, they have called in Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, the United States, Canada, France, Germany, Denmark, Italy, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Belgium, Hungary, Sweden and the United Kingdom.
“That day we marched to accompany the Nobel Peace Prize and remind the world that Venezuela’s fight for freedom is still alive,” Machado’s party stressed in its message.
Last November, VV indicated in a press release that the global march is part of a series of activities planned “to honor the Venezuelans’ fight for freedom.”
The party then indicated that the called march is part of a movement called ‘The Nobel is ours’, which, it explained, was born in order to symbolize that “recognition does not belong to one person, but to an entire country” and seeks to transform the prize “into a global megaphone that projects the Venezuelan cause.”
Furthermore, he stated that, while the Government of Nicolás Maduro “tries to silence the achievement within the territory, the Venezuelan diaspora will be the engine to amplify the message in the world.”
The Norwegian Nobel Committee recently stated that Machado has made it clear that he will travel to Oslo to receive the prize.
However, the leader of the Nobel Committee, Jørgen Watne Frydnes, considered, in statements to the public channel ‘NRK’, that it is “a dangerous trip because the Venezuelan regime has said that it wants to get her out of the way”, so he said he hopes that the opposition’s safety is guaranteed and she can reach Norway, but also return to the country.
Machado declared last October to the Norwegian newspaper Dagens Næringsliv that in order to travel Venezuela had to be “free” and pointed out that as long as Maduro was in power he could not leave the place where he is for security reasons.
With information from EFE
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