They threatened the journalist who interviewed the musician who billed $ 60,000 for singing on Nicolás Maduro’s birthday: “I fear for my life”.

The journalist Santiago matias declared having received threats after interviewing Bonny Cepeda, the musician who sang on Nicolás Maduro’s birthday and received $ 60,000. The artist, who is also the Deputy Minister of Culture of the Dominican Republic, confessed during the report to having cashed the extravagant sum, while the minimum wage in Venezuela does not exceed $ 2 per month.

“I fear for my life ”, the communicator wrote on Twitter. “I get anonymous calls threatening me after the interview.”

The journalist also shared a message he received on WhatsApp on the social network. “Watch fucking black son of a bitch, dominican black bangs, your mom is the killer of womenOne of the posts said. While the other read again, “Bloody black son of a bitch.”

Soon after he said, the threats also started on Twitter.

The Venezuelan opposition led by Juan Guaidó denounced this Wednesday that the dictator Nicolás Maduro paid $ 60,000 to the Dominican singer Bonny Cepeda for her performance on the occasion of the tyrant’s 58th birthday, on November 23.

The opposition’s rejection came after Cepeda himself revealed the data in an interview about the program Alofoke Radio Show in your country.

In this sense, the representative of Guaidó in Colombia, Thomas guanipa, lamented that “while Venezuelans die of hunger and the collapse of the hospital system“, Maduro pays”thousands of dollars to hire a salsa singer“To celebrate his birthday.

“Contempt for Maduro and his leadership is more damaging every day. While a Venezuelan earns less than a dollar a month, Maduro pays a singer $ 60,000 to come to the country and sing for him on his birthday, ”Guanipa denounced.

The dictator’s birthday party has been widely criticized in Venezuela for bringing several foreign artists to the country – including Cepeda- in the midst of a pandemic, even though the borders were very restricted for the rest of the citizens.

Criticism was also produced by the televised “trash” of Maduro, who sang and danced with several members of his family, friends and members of the socialist regime, with whom he shared a large birthday cake in the colors of the Venezuelan flag. .

The Caribbean country is going through a serious economic and social crisis, for which Maduro blames the sanctions imposed by the United States which, according to the dictatorial regime, prevent him from being able to buy vaccines, medical equipment, maintain the water supply drinking water or refineries to produce gasoline, among others.

In the opinion of opponents, the sanctions are only an “excuse” to justify “mismanagement” and thus keep “the country duped”. “Maduro’s cynicism leads to the death of Venezuelans!Guanipa concluded.

Meanwhile, in a letter sent to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, 40 medical and academic organizations denounced discrimination in COVID-19 vaccination in Venezuela.

“As Venezuelan civil society organizations, we want to express our concern about the recent human rights violations that have taken place in the country, in particular the rights to life, health, non-discrimination and equity in access to services, in the context of COVID-19 ″, underlines the letter.

They claimed that on May 12 “was denounced, with testimonies and photographic records, which in one day for the vaccination against COVID-19, to be carried out at the vaccination post, located in the hospital town of Dr. Enrique Tejera, in the city of Valencia, state of Carabobo, Doctors and the elderly were not vaccinated because they were not registered in the Patria system”.

The full interview with Bonny Cepeda

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