Venezuelan Communist Party Warns of Opposition Destabilisation Plans, Possible Foreign Intervention

The National Secretary of Venezuela’s Communist Party, Pedro Eusse, has warned that the opposition coalition, the Roundtable of Democratic Unity (MUD), is laying the foundations to dispute the results of this year’s presidential elections in October, as well as to possibly incite violence.

In a press conference yesterday, Eusse stated that the MUD’s plan was to secure a “Syrian style” international intervention following the elections by inciting criminal and armed groups to act against the government. He also added that the coalition was currently using political opinion polls predicting the popularity of each candidate to create a “fictitious” reflection of Venezuela’s political reality in the run up to elections in order to be able to “cry fraud” in October.

“All this is accompanied by the activation of a violent plan, with the presence of criminal elements from abroad in Venezuela – paramilitaries, assassins, mercenaries – that will all become active when they cry “fraud,” stated Eusse. Read More