Venezuelan journalist @OrlvndoA gives this timely and thoughtful post to the international community- “Some international friends, in good faith and others not so much, tell us Venezuelans what we should do and how we should do it:

Whether to take Miraflores, whether to leave five million in the streets, whether to this or that.

But it seems that these friends lack context. Perhaps they are not aware that we Venezuelans have tried everything, at a very high cost, such as leaving in our millions, marching on Miraflores, clashing in the streets with the Guard, etc., but it turns out that we are facing an organized crime cartel that kills, tortures, kidnaps, and has no scruples or limits. Proof of this are hundreds of murders, thousands of prisoners and tens of thousands of extrajudicial deaths.

We are aware, friends, but thank you for your genuine recommendations and your instructive indications on how to remove a tyranny. We take them into account.

María Corina is also aware of this, and that is why she has been denouncing the nature of tyranny for years (she was, in fact, the first to do so), and that is why the calls are made in a rational and precise manner.

The only way out of this is with force, whether internal or external. We all know this, because we are facing a cartel. And the force is being built, carefully, although it is not an easy task.

The ones with the mandate to do so are María Corina Machado and her partner in leadership, President Edmundo. I think we all trust them for the task.

But thanks for the sermons.”