Weakness Permits Advance of Venezuelan Dictatorship, Says Leopoldo Lopez

Opposition politician and political prisoner Leopoldo López asked Venezuelans to overcome despair and fear and invited them to “to renew their convictions spirit.” “Our attitude towards this dictatorship violating human rights must be permanent irreverence, we must challenge it and promote a profound change, a democratic change,” said the leader of Popular Will in an article published on his blog. “This fear of ours and the administration of terror by the Maduro regime have been fundamental elements of its longevity in power. If we fail to defeat this fear, we will not have the capacity to conceive and lead a process of change, “Lopez wrote. More…