US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said on Thursday that the United States will recognize Edmundo Gonzalez as the winner of Venezuela’s presidential election, which socialist dictator Nicolas Maduro and his regime-controlled election authorities have claimed was won by Maduro.
“Based on the overwhelming evidence, it is clear to the United States and, above all, to the Venezuelan people that Edmundo González Urrutia received the most votes in Venezuela’s July 28 presidential election,” Blinken said. Said said in a press statement.
Venezuela held a highly controversial and fake presidential election on Sunday, July 28. The ruling Socialist party Widespread Great efforts were made to ensure that the elections were far from free and fair. We’re screwed The administration of U.S. President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken is trying to persuade Maduro to hold “free and fair” elections to vindicate himself.
The Biden administration has given Maduro several major financial concessions as an incentive to hold real elections, including the easing of oil and gas sanctions for six months. package It provided a windfall for the socialist regime through oil sales in the U.S. and abroad. Biden also released from prison Alex Saab, the Maduro regime’s top money launderer. 2023 Two of his nephews were convicted of trying to smuggle cocaine into New York. 2022.
Venezuela’s National Electoral Center (CNE) said President Maduro “WinnerSunday’s sham election was allegedly won by 51% of the vote. Maduro’s “victory” was predictably “certified” by the CNE on Monday, which as of press time had not released any confirmed results or tallies to back up the alleged outcome.
Venezuela’s opposition strongly disputed the results, claiming to have access to records of a nationwide vote tally that showed Gonzalez had won by a landslide. The opposition released the results it said it had obtained. onlineThese are the only publicly available data on the election. Maduro promised Venezuela’s ruling United Socialist Party is expected to release the results of a tally soon that will certify his “victory” in the sham election, but has yet to do so.
Opposition presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez leads a demonstration in Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, July 30, 2024, to protest official election results that declared President Nicolas Maduro re-elected (Cristian Hernandez/Associated Press).
“The CNE hastily declared Nicolás Maduro the winner of the presidential election without any supporting evidence. Despite repeated requests from the Venezuelan people and the international community, the CNE has yet to release any disaggregated data or vote tally,” Blinken said in a statement.
“As reported by independent Carter Center monitors, the CNE’s failure to provide official precinct-level results, as well as irregularities throughout the process, completely undermine the credibility of the results it released,” he continued.
Due to this situation, protest The socialist regime’s brutal crackdown left around 12 people dead and more than 1,200 protesters detained.
Maduro’s government Rejected Blinken issued a “serious and even ridiculous” statement through Venezuela’s foreign ministry on Friday morning, asserting that Venezuela’s “democracy” is “one of the strongest in the world.”
Venezuelan socialists accused Blinken of “pretending to play a role in Venezuela’s electoral power, demonstrating that the US government is spearheading a coup against Venezuela and advancing a violent agenda against the Venezuelan people and its institutions.”
The Maduro regime also accused the United States of using a “global communications power” and social media to create a “false narrative” and “sow terror among civilians and attack sensitive segments of communities, based on a lie they want to impose, against the will of the vast majority of the Venezuelan people.”
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced:
The United States government has been trying for 25 years to overthrow the Bolivarian government, but it has not succeeded and will not be able to do so in the future. All their attempts will succumb to the determination of a people that fights with dignity and every day to build the path of progress and defeat aggression and criminal sanctions.
“The Venezuelan people have raised their voices, exercised their rights and reaffirmed the inalienable path of sovereignty, peace and socialist construction to guarantee their maximum well-being,” the statement continued.
The U.S. certification of Gonzalez as the winner of Sunday’s sham election and Maduro’s fraudulent victory is reminiscent of events that occurred after Maduro staged a similarly fraudulent election in 2019. 2018 Fake presidential elections.
The United States and most of the free world did not recognize Maduro’s fraudulent 2018 election as legitimate. After Maduro’s first term ended in January 2019, Venezuela’s then opposition-controlled National Assembly Designated Due to the “breakdown of democratic order” caused by Maduro’s fraudulent “re-election” and refusal to step down from power, Venezuela has appointed Juan Guaido as interim president. Under the Venezuelan Constitution, the National Assembly has the power to do so, naming Guaido the country’s legitimate president, despite him not having taken part in the sham elections.
President Guaido’s government has the backing of about 50 countries, including the U.S. The interim president has promised the Venezuelan people that he will end President Maduro’s usurpation of power, establish a transitional government, and work to hold free elections in Venezuela.
The interim president was unable to achieve any of his goals and ultimately Dissolved December 2022. Mr. Guaido Deportation Colombian authorities have announced they will deport him to Miami in 2023 after he attempted to meet with international representatives attending a conference on Venezuela organized by Colombia’s far-left President Gustavo Petro.
As in the United States, Argentina and Peru They recently announced that they were recognizing Gonzalez as the winner of the election.
clockMaduro signs burned during Venezuelan election protests
Christian K. Caruso is a Venezuelan author documenting life under socialism. You can follow him on Twitter. here.
