Venezuelan Ambassador Speaks After Maduro’s Extraction

For the first time since the dramatic January third extraction of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores, the country’s top diplomat in Belize has broken his silence. Appearing on Open Your Eyes, Ambassador Gerardo Antonio Argote delivered an impassioned message, vowing to represent the voice of his people and those who lost their lives defending Venezuela’s sovereignty. Here is what he had to say.

 

Gerardo Antonio Argote, Venezuelan Ambassador to Belize

“I am calm. I am calm like a bomb, like a bomb that they drop on the heads of my people in Caracas. I am calm like the ancient stone who hit the head of Goliath in an unequal fight. I came here to represent the voice of my people, the voice of my eighty Venezuelan soldiers who fought for our sovereignty and died. I came to represent the voice of the thirty-two Cubans who gave their blood to defend their sovereignty. I came to talk about the voice of my people in Caracas, my people who died while they were sleeping int their houses, under the bombs that came from the sky in that dark night.”