00:00The Movement for Social Justice says what happens in Venezuela is important for the rest of the region.
00:07The Caribbean must remain a zone of peace.
00:10And that is critical, especially when we consider the stability of our key neighbors.
00:18And it is therefore in the interest of the Caribbean and certainly in the interest of Trinidad and Tobago
00:24that Venezuela remains stable to guarantee the Caribbean as a zone of peace.
00:30Representatives were sent to Venezuela as part of a team of international observers for the recent presidential election.
00:38As we speak about these issues and we look at other countries and the way they express themselves democratically,
00:46we can learn from that and we could strengthen our processes so that more comes from the people of Trinidad and Tobago
00:57and less from the top come down.
01:00It was extremely eye-opening.
01:05We were able to go into all of the voting stations to look at people voting.
01:11Venezuela has held 31 elections in the past 25 years.
01:16Nicolás Maduro will have been supported by 13 different organizations.
01:22And this tells me that the support from amongst the people on the ground or within communities will have been very strong.
01:33So it will have been very difficult for anybody, anyone to really defeat Nicolás Maduro.
01:40My view, the election was free and fair and we are calling on the international community to really accept the election.
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