Havana, Cuba. – Popular participation in a referendum will decide the results of the Constituent Assembly convened by the Bolivarian Government, this Friday, Venezuelan ambassador in Havana Ali Rodriguez ratified.

In a press conference in Havana, the diplomat said the constitutional text will be submitted to a referendum and it´s up to the people to decide as President Nicolas Maduro noted. Rodriguez also assured the opposition is afraid of this democratic mechanism after losing the support it reached in the previous elections.

The Venezuelan ambassador recalled that the call for a constituent assembly was one of the right´s flags but now they reject it, because they know they have no leadership, nor an effective political proposal.

Rodriguez pointed out that since 1999 twenty electoral processes have been carried out in the Bolivarian nation, which marks a democratic tradition.

Peace against Violence

Venezuela’s ambassador in Havana said that peace, via the call to a constituent assembly, is a tool to confront the violence the opposition impels.

He pointed that the media and the right are trying to impose an image of violence that is false ultimately, since these events have only been recorded in some 17 places of the more than 300 Venezuelan municipalities, but they are magnified by a badly intentioned press.

To question about the possibility of an external military intervention, Rodriguez said it would be the beginning of a long war, which, he said, would last one hundred years and would jump the borders of the country to spread throughout the continent.

That is why they have not tried, the Venezuelan diplomat stressed and highlighted the high readiness and disposition of the Bolivarian Armed Forces.