"THE VENEZUELAN PEOPLE, POINTED OUT, "CAN NOT LEAVE THIS SITUATION ALONE"

"Venezuela is a concentration camp where the same Venezuelans are being exterminated, understanding what a concentration camp is in Nazi Germany: where they took the Jews to die in the gas chamber." "This regime that Nicolás Maduro presides over today in Venezuela is committing an extermination, killing our people of hunger, for lack of medicines," he added.

For the Venezuelan bishop, in his country "a tragedy is being committed in unimaginable dimensions".

"Venezuela is tortured," he said, adding that cases have already been filed before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and the International Criminal Court against the Venezuelan government. Bishop Villarroel assured that the problem began in 1999, with the arrival of Hugo Chávez to power.

"We do not vote with common sense or with reason, and this has led to a tragedy where thousands and thousands of Venezuelans are dying because of lack of food and lack of medicine and where human rights are constantly violated." "Today 80% of the industries are destroyed," he said, and lamented that "last month inflation was at 270%. There are few products. "

"The minimum salary for a Venezuelan for a month is between 4 and 6 dollars. With 4 and 6 dollars a family has to feed their children with a month. " With that money, he said, a worker in Venezuela could buy just "three or four products: an egg carton, a kilo of rice, a packet of flour and some meat. And there is not enough to buy more. " "There are homes where only food is a little rice all day," he said.

Bishop Villarroel said that in 2017 "more than 20,000 newborn children died, because there are no conditions to take care of the mothers when they are going to give birth. Many mothers have to give birth in the corridors of the hospital. 60% of mothers who have given birth have died in childbirth. "