Maduro said that migrants would return to Venezuela in less than a year if the US lifts sanctions

President Nicolás Maduro assured this Monday that Venezuelan migrants will return to their country “no later than a year” if the United States lifts “all sanctions” against the South American nation.

“Lift all sanctions against the economy, against Venezuelan society, and you will see that, within a year at the latest, this problem will end and all those migrants will return to a Venezuela with investment, growth, a prosperous Venezuela,” he said. .

During your weekly program With Maduro +broadcast on the state channel VTV, denounced what it considers a campaign to “demonize the Venezuelan migrant people,” and noted that the diaspora was supposedly driven by the economic crisis created by the sanctions imposed on Venezuela.

The official, a possible candidate for Chavismo in this year’s presidential elections in the country, said that the lifting of sanctions would generate investments and an economic resurgence, which would facilitate the return of citizens who have left the country in recent years. .

“Intensification of campaigns and dirty war”

Nicolás Maduro also denounced “a resurgence of campaigns, the dirty war, false positives, fake news” in a season where social networks are relevant and the content that is shared, and that involves Venezuelan migrants, has a wide reach.

“I tell all migrants, come on, Venezuela is moving forward,” he expressed.

For this reason, he accused the United States government, the Voice of America and the news agency The Associated Press of supposedly trying to criminalize undocumented foreigners, who, he assured, are “noble people” who have faced economic difficulties.

In October, the United States suspended some of its sanctions, but recently threatened to resume them if the disqualification of presidential candidate María Corina Machado, who belongs to the main anti-Chavista coalition, is not lifted, the Efe news agency recalled.

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