PRESIDENT Nicolas Maduro assured Venezuelans at the weekend that, despite the violent agenda promoted by sections of the opposition, peace would prevail for the constituent assembly election dry-run.

“There are people here who want death and war. However, we did not allow that beforehand and we won’t allow it now,” he stressed.

“Peace will overcome. Peace yes, war no, constituent assembly yes, barricades no,” he said during a ceremony at the National Pantheon to inter the remains of Argimiro Gabaldon aka Comandante Carache, the guerilla leader, poet and former Venezuelan Communist Party general secretary who was shot dead in 1964.