Statements by Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro after filing the appeal in the Supreme Court. teleSUR
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00:00It has the legal opportunities, even though I haven't studied laws in Harvard or I think
00:15in English, but I have never served those who damaged my homeland.
00:23I know a lot about laws and constitution.
00:26I love the peace of my country.
00:30When my country was attacked in 2017 by the same of today, Lopaldo Lopez, Maria Machado,
00:38Capriles, Julio Borges, they set fire to Venezuela.
00:44They set Venezuela on fire.
00:46I appealed to the constitution and I called to the constituency because it was the right
00:54path by them.
00:57In the world, there was a brutal campaign.
01:03There were a lot of who chickened down and we have the task to wage the battle alone,
01:13but it triumphed peace.
01:16And on July 31st, 17 years ago, peace arrived in Venezuela.
01:24After 120 days of violence, of insurrection of violence, of calling to assassinate me,
01:31they burned down and killed what was known as Guarimba uprisings.
01:40The authors, the financial authors are the same.
01:46Almost all of them lived outside, live abroad as billionaires.
01:52Where is Lopaldo Lopez living?
01:57How many dollars does he have?
02:01Where does Juan Guaido and Antonio Ledesma live, Freddy Guevara, Elmo Lasky, Lester Toledo?
02:15All that are being plotted from Washington, all that have been met with Erickson, and
02:25they attended all the meetings, planning new actions against Venezuela, armed actions against
02:32Venezuela, and many things.
02:34I know what happened in that meeting.
02:38I know every word of that meeting.
02:41I summoned, I called constitutionally as head of state, and on July 30, we elected the constituency,
02:53and once established the National Assembly, peace arrived in Venezuela till nowadays.
03:04At that moment, the Commission of Peace, Dialogue, and Reconciliation of the Constituency just
03:15pardoned those plotted.
03:23Many of them traveled abroad.
03:28How many damage was caused by Guaido in that National Assembly by the hands of the far right?
03:37We also faced them with the truth, and those who shaken down in the world were just bad.
03:50Only the brave prevailed.
03:53We are now facing, maybe, compared to the coup d'etat of 2002, compared to the Guarimbas
04:07uprisings, 2013 of Capriles, 2014 of Maria Machado, Leopoldo Lopez, Capriles, Ramon Arun,
04:19Lydia Tintori, of 2017, it would be, maybe, the most criminal act till nowadays.
04:33I said it on time.
04:36Some people didn't believe, because they say, see to believe, and as Saint Thomas said,
04:48bless the ones who believe without seeing, but bless the ones who see and believe, and
04:57let's be united, all, it is a criminal act, not only because of the violence, but because
05:06of the violence, but criminal for, as they search for criminals to attack, burn people
05:12alive, and burn the public sectors as health facilities, to threaten life of the families,
05:23to burn markets and companies, vehicles, and attack their own people, and this is all that
05:36directed by a perverse and criminal group, the duo of Gonzalez Urrutia and Maria Corina
05:49Machado, which is, you know that you will be defeated, you are convinced that you will
05:59be defeated, because we will triumph with the law and the constitution.
06:07I have brought, as that May 1st, 2017, in the Avenue Bolivar, I have appealed to constitution
06:16for the peace of Venezuela, and I have brought a contentious appeal, electoral appeal, contained
06:25in the constitution, in the organic law of the Supreme Court of Justice, for the chamber
06:31of the Supreme Court be in charge of prosecuting this attack against the electoral process,
06:46and clarified everything that has to be cleared about these attacks, about this process.
06:55Venezuela has strong institutions.
06:58We have a Supreme Court of Justice, a very professional and excellent academy, functioning
07:09very well, judicial power active, and ahead of the psychological war on social media outlets,
07:22I just go to the Supreme Court of Venezuela to prosecute, as I have talked with Dr. Beatriz
07:33Rodriguez, and cite with its faculty, to all institutions, electoral power, and all institutions,
07:49executive power, moral power, and prosecutor's office, and call all those presidential candidates
08:00submitted to call those 38 parties, and document what has been this year, this attack to the
08:17electoral council, this cyber attack, and collected this evidence, and certified, and
08:27validate the electoral results on July 28th elections.
08:35Let's be the course of the republic, and as the head of state, I requested in document,
08:43for a contentious electoral appeal, and I have said that I am willing to be summoned,
08:59to be interrogated, at all forms, be investigated by the electoral chamber, as presidential
09:09candidate, winner of July 28th elections, and as head of state.
09:15I submitted to justice, and I have said beyond, as head of politics, and revolutionary leader
09:25of Venezuela, and son of Commander Chavez, that the great patriotic Paul, and the United
09:32Socialist Party, is ready to present all polling stations, all ballots, and I hope
09:42that the electoral chamber does the same with every candidate, and every party.
09:50Very soon you will hear about, because evidence are there, evidence of this plot are here,
10:02and it is a global plot against Venezuela.
10:07Let the laws function, let the state function, and I will continue protecting the people
10:13of Venezuela, to resume all their activities in peace, and prevail peace, as liberator
10:21said in that Trujillo letter, prevail peace, and triumph peace, on the track of the law,
10:29of legality, of institutionality, and of democracy.
10:34This is the most criminal act with criminals that we have experienced.
10:39That I said to all the population of Venezuela, to all our opponents, to all who back us up,
10:47we have controlled this criminal attack that they intended.
10:53Well, I have a lot to tell you, that's why I invite you to the Presidential Palace, where
11:01I am, for being able to have a press briefing.
11:06Thank you very much.
11:09We are listening live statements of President Nicolás Maduro after presenting an appeal
11:21before the Supreme Court of Justice, the electoral chamber of the Supreme Court of
11:25Justice, where he asked the court to carry out a thorough investigation on everything
11:29that happened on July 28th, and also committed to provide all his support to testify whenever
11:34was needed, to be sure that the process was completely transparent and clear, to arrive
11:41to all the conclusions necessary to once and for all determine the correct results of the
11:48electoral process, and also condemn the acts of destabilization carried out by the far
11:54right, describing them as the most criminal acts that have been carried out so far since
11:59taking power as President of the Bolivarian Republic.
12:03Stay tuned with Treasurer English for more updates.