Salinas Pliego issues a warning to the 4T after Maduro's fall: "Abusing democracy has consequences"
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Salinas Pliego issues a warning to the 4T after Maduro's fall: "Abusing democracy has consequences"

03 January, 2026.South America.1 sources

Key Takeaways

  • Salinas Pliego described Maduro's U.S. capture as a warning against power-grab rule changes.
  • He issued the warning through his official social media accounts targeting Mexican authorities.
  • The post connects democracy abuse with consequences, citing Maduro's case as example.

Salinas warning on democracy

The president of Grupo Salinas described the capture of Nicolás Maduro by United States forces as a direct warning to governments that, after coming to power through democratic means, they modify the rules to perpetuate themselves.

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Through his official social media accounts, the president of Grupo Salinas sent a forceful message to what he called authoritarian figures in Mexico, signaling that using the will of the people as a constitutional shield will have serious effects on their health and freedom.

The end of the socialist nightmare and the rule of law.

Critique of democratic abuse and consequences

Salinas Pliego argued that leaders who alter the democratic system to benefit their political faction must face the consequences of their acts.

“Congratulations, Venezuela is free!!! The intervention of the United States in Venezuela is a warning to authoritarian figures around the world and, in our case, a clear hope for Mexico and Mexicans: to abuse constitutional democracy using as a shield the 'will of the people' will have grave consequences for the freedom of these corrupt communists and their health,” the businessman said.

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The magnate deemed it ridiculous that certain governments appeal to sovereignty and self-determination while allowing murders to go unpunished, misery to be normalized, and a systematic plundering of public coffers to exist.

“Those who came to power using the rules of the democratic game and subsequently modify them to perpetuate themselves in office, for the benefit of their political sect, must now face the consequences of their acts.

It is ridiculous that authoritarian governments claim that the sovereignty and self-determination of the peoples are violated, when it is they themselves who allow abuses, murders, and flouting of the law to go unpunished, that waste and plunder of the public coffers occur, that citizens’ freedoms are lost, and that misery is normalized as a way of life,” Salinas Pliego said.

For the businessman, Venezuela faces the possible end of a long nightmare caused by socialism, though he lamented that the outcome occurred through the use of foreign military force, a situation that, in his view, could have been avoided if the popular will had been respected in the past elections.

“It seems that the end of the long nightmare that socialism provoked in Venezuela is beginning.

Unfortunately, it had to be through the use of foreign military force.

All this could have been avoided if the popular will had truly been respected in the past election, which Maduro stole,” he stated.

Mexico, diplomacy, and Trump

In his analysis, Salinas Pliego harshly criticized the stance of the Government of Mexico regarding the Venezuelan electoral process.

He asserted that the current administration did not have the courage or consistency to denounce Maduro's electoral fraud, but now shows willingness to condemn the intervention led by the government of the current United States President, Donald Trump.

“Let us remember that at that time the Government of Mexico did not have the courage or consistency to denounce the electoral fraud, but now it is very concerned and “condemns the intervention” of Trump’s government,” he said.

The owner of TV Azteca warned that Mexico must act with caution to preserve its sovereignty and its position as a strategic trading partner of the United States, emphasizing that compliance with the rules of democracy and the Rule of Law are indispensable requirements to maintain that relationship.

“The @gobmexico must be more careful, it has the obligation to remain a free and sovereign country. Neighbor and trading partner of the United States, and it is essential to comply with the rules of democracy and the Rule of Law. Careful!”, he concluded his post.

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