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Nicolás Maduro

has received with all the revolutionary honors one of his star guests at the Antifascist Summit that he has set up in Caracas with his usual organic intellectuals and official propagandists:

Juan Carlos Monedero.

Founder of Podemos and in his day one of

Hugo Chávez

's main advisers , Monedero thanked him with extensive ejaculation and harsh criticism against

Josep Borrell

, High Representative of the European Union, regarding the firm position against Russia that he defends within the Union.

"It makes me shudder to see Borrell saying that instead of talking about diplomacy, we have to do it with arms, with a warrior ardor," Monedero said a few meters from the Bolivarian caudillo,

Vladimir Putin's main ally in Latin America

, whom he defines as the "great leader of mankind".

"I want Europe to talk about peace again and not fuel a war that is going to harm the whole world. And it seems that the solution is that, silence [the Kremlin media] and not seek diplomacy and feed barbarities in the media "Monedero continued.

Previously,

he was pleased that Venezuela is no longer in the news

, as he said because "now it turns out that the US recognizes the legitimate president again," referring to the meeting between Maduro and three representatives of President

Joe Biden

last March, in the midst of the war in Ukraine.

"What is Europe doing, raising its voice in favor of human rights by closing media outlets like Russia Today and Sputnik? That is not democratic, because if you are convinced of your reasons, it allows them to report," Monedero stressed at the event.

In a television interview prior to his speech at the Summit, the former leader of Podemos also criticized the Spanish coalition government, of which Podemos is a part, for "being one more of those who send weapons to Ukraine and not being the main force to demand a diplomatic solution".

"Great friend of Venezuela"

The "great friend of Venezuela"

, as Maduro defined him, took the opportunity to defend the links of Podemos with the Venezuelan dictatorship.

"They have attacked us a lot in Spain for having learned many things here that we have been able to do with courage, with many difficulties, facing a two-party system where the socialist part is simply the slightly more progressive part of a conservative binomial. And if we have dared it is because

we learned from the courage of this people," said Monedero

, without recalling that Maduro and his generalship are being investigated for crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court, including executions, torture, rape, disappearances, and arbitrary detentions.

Venezuela is the protagonist of the greatest social and economic failure of the continent in just two decades of revolution, with more than six million citizens who have fled the country and with an 80% reduction in its Gross Domestic Product (GDP), despite having the largest oil reserves on the planet.

The collapse of their public services hits Venezuelans every day, who in recent hours have suffered new power cuts in different parts of the country.

Monedero charged against those who have "turned" Ukraine into a farm where "poor women gestate for rich Spanish women or couples", in reference to surrogacy.

"And now they complain about the war, not because people die, but because they wanted to have newborn children and since there is war, they still receive them in a few months and they don't like it anymore," he said.

Maduro not only thanked Monedero for his words, but also his alleged courage to "break the hegemony of the media dictatorship."

The "son of Chávez" confessed that this is precisely his great objective, to put an end to the "communicational dictatorship of the West, its narrative and lies against the emergence of a different multicentric and multipolar world."

At the moment, Chavismo has imposed an inexorable communication hegemony in Venezuela, whose penultimate chapter is the expropriation of the headquarters of the newspaper

El Nacional

, handed over to

Diosdado Cabello

and converted into a center to train propagandists and experts in

fake news

on social networks. , called International University of Communications.

These days it has become, precisely, the headquarters of the Antifascist Summit.

In his speech before the rest of the guests, Monedero exempted Maduro from listening to his theory about Putin's support for far-right parties in Europe, something he did develop in a television interview.

His thesis is that Moscow "protested" with Georgia, Abkhazia, and now with Ukraine, against NATO, "at war against Russia that was beginning to wake up."

"Putin in Europe finances the forces of the extreme right, such as Vox, Trump, Le Pen... But

in Latin America, Russia's position is favorable to the sovereign people

. We are in a very confused world," he said.

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