2024: Five Mayors Broke from the Opposition and Endorsed President Maduro

Six days before the 2024 Presidential election, five mayors of the state of Trujillo renounced their ties with the opposition and declared themselves in favor of the candidacy of President Maduro.[1] The Mayors were members of political parties that had endorsed opposition candidates in the upcoming election. Through a video released on social media networks, mayors Wilmer Delgado of the Monte Carmelo municipality, Servando Godoy of the municipality of Jose Felipe Marquez Canizales, Francisco Aguilar of Andres Bello, Heriberto Materan Tapia from Motatan, and Dilcia Rojas from Campo Elias released a statement:[1]

·       “We have had 25 uninterrupted years of political conflict, and the only palpable results are poverty, pain, division, and separation of the Venezuelan people. As an opposition, we have not had political maturity, and we have not lived up to the change demanded by our people. It is not a secret, we come from continuous failures feigning a non-existent unity due to the imposition of agendas and interests that obey the personal whims of the Caracas elites who kidnapped the opposition leadership in Venezuela. This July 28, again, those irresponsible elites want to impose their agendas of destabilization. It is the same pattern that always ends up leaving more frustration and more tears for our people.”

·       “We have made the decision to break with the Comando Con Venezuela and the policy of humiliation and imposition of Maria Corina Machado. We have decided to break with the fanaticism and opposition radicalism that has fueled hatred between Venezuelan brothers. This group of opposition mayors has decided to break with this disastrous and destructive way of doing politics. We have decided to break with those who need to see innocent blood shed so that they can continue justifying monetary support and international lobbying.”

·       “We assume the commitment to declare ourselves independent and support the candidacy of Nicolas Maduro Moros. “

1.Orinoco Tribune, Five More Venezuelan Mayors Break from Opposition to Endorse President Maduro, July 24, 2024

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