Former President of Uruguay Jose Mujica He assured that Venezuela has an authoritarian government and that it “gets to the other side.”

“Venezuela’s misfortune is that it has a lot of oil and feels surrounded. And there is an authoritarian government that takes a different path. But what I have learned is this: in a besieged square, any dissident is a traitor,” the man who governed the South American country between 2010 and 2015 told the press last Friday.

Accordingly, Mujica was asked if there was a dictatorship in Venezuela, to which he responded: “Where does the concept of dictatorship come from? This was the decision of the Roman Empire when the potatoes burned. They concentrated power and gave it to one person to simply call the shots. No disagreements or anything. Closed order, because in moments of danger it is impossible to discuss, there must be someone responsible. The figure of the dictator was invented there.”

And he added: “Venezuela has an authoritarian government. Call him a dictator, call him whatever you want.”

On the other hand, Mujica said that the Vice President of Venezuela Delcy Rodriguez: “Her motorcycle is gone” saying that Uruguay’s President Luis Lacalle Pou has the “face of a lackey.”

“You can’t talk about American presidents like that. You shouldn’t talk. Even for reasons of convenience and diplomatic reasons. His motorcycle drove away,” he said.

Rodriguez asked Lacalla Pou on Monday of the week avoid “interfering” in the affairs of the country and instead deal with the problems of their nation.

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A Venezuelan official used his account to because it “hurts the eyes” that there is a “dictatorship” in this country.

(according to information from EFE)