Maduro Slams Obama, Hopes for Better Relations with Trump
Caracas, November 21, 2016 (venezuelanalysis.com) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro hit back at US President Barack Obama after the latter expressed veiled criticisms of Venezuela at an international trade summit in Peru.
Speaking at an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit meeting in Lima, the outgoing US leader took aim at Latin American countries he described as maintaining “repressive non-democratic governance”.
“You’re seeing some countries that are going backward rather than forwards in terms of freedom of press, freedom of the internet, in terms of respecting political opposition and civil society,” he said in a not so subtle reference to left-leaning governments in Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, and Nicaragua.
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“I aspire, hope and will work so that with the Donald Trump, Venezuela will have better relations of respect with the United States… and overcome… [the] grave errors committed by George W. Bush which were sadly deepened by Obama,” he affirmed.
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