Venezuelans citizens in Rome

Today in a beautiful manner, we were able to express our discontent by our current political situation, citizens in Rome, gather on the Piazza dei Cinquecento.

 We distributed our message to those who wanted to hear it...we found curious people, tourist and Italian citizen, and even Latin Americans brothers whom we explain why we were there, the importance for us to spread the word.

Always peacefully, with smiles, laughs, songs and our casseroles we manifest.

Our slogans were peace to Venezuela, unification of Venezuelans, clear and transparent counting of the votes, and exit of illegitimate president Maduro, proclaimed, after an audit was accepted to the rest of the 46% of the voting records. Why they couldn't wait after the audit was finish?

Also wanted to show our feelings against the attacks on workers, parliamentarians and citizens who are being persecuted for voting for Henrique Capriles. In recent days there have been more evidence of public companies where unions and public offices are threatening employees for voting for the anti-government option, and without impudence manifested, they do not care for the Minister of Labour and Human Rights, they do so with the conviction to maintain a legacy, which unfortunately, they don't realised yet is of hate, resentment, manipulation and lies.

We repudiate also inconsistencies on the electoral system, that is supposedly the most perfect in the world, according to government spokesmen, where one of them another complaint is that of assisted voting, which outrages me greatly because it represents the rape of democracy! The vote is secret and should be guaranteed to be secret, a person can not be forced to vote for another if his conscience doesn't dictates it, and this kind of abuse are the ones that we as Venezuelans must denounce. Especially those of us who are on foreign countries.

And to this point I want to emphasise that despite the large turnout today, and how satisfied we were with the concentration, we know of a large number of fellow Venezuelans in Rome, wouldn't show up precisely for fear of reprisals. A message to my friends, we can not give up, can not give way to tyranny, we can not let them continue calling us fascists when are others who have demonstrated to be the fascists. Faith, hope and without fear, God is with us, but he does not do our work, the work must be done by us.

I would like to close this post with some words of Pope Francis I, who during the day Angelus today, prayed for Venezuela:
"I accompany Venezuela with concern, intense prayer and hope, so that they find fair and peaceful ways to overcome the moment of grave difficulty. I invite my dear Venezuelans, particularly the authorities, to strongly reject violence and establish a dialogue based on truth, mutual recognition and the search for the common good to the nation. I ask believers to work towards reconciliation and peace, let us join in a prayer for Venezuela, placing it in the hands of our the Virgin Mary of Coromoto "

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=qhGLiU3FEfQ


Amen to that..

Update: 

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Video de Venezolanos en Italia manifestando