Javier Milei: “Argentina will not recognize another fraud” in Venezuela

Argentine President Javier Milei announced early Monday that his country “will not recognize another fraud” in Venezuela and added that the citizens of that country “chose to end the communist dictatorship of Nicolás Maduro.”

«The data announce a crushing victory for the opposition and the world is waiting for it to recognize defeat after years of socialism, misery, decadence and death.“, the ultra-liberal ruler said in a message posted on his social network account X.

«Argentina will not admit to another fraud, and hopes that the Armed Forces (of Venezuela) will defend democracy and the popular will this time“, the president posted.

Argentine Foreign Minister Diana Mondino also used the social network to ask Nicolás Maduro to “RECOGNIZE DEFEAT (sic).”

«The difference in votes against the Chavista dictatorship is overwhelming. They lost in all states by more than 35%. There is no fraud or violence that hides the reality.“, posted the Minister of Foreign Affairs, International Trade and Worship.

Mondino and other members of Milei’s Executive, such as the Minister of Defense, Luis Petri, and the Minister of Security, Patricia Bullrich, went during the election day to accompany the Venezuelans residing in Argentina who gathered around the embassy of that country in Buenos Aires.

Argentina is one of the countries that, according to the Venezuelan government’s statement on Sunday, is part of an “intervention operation” by several Latin American countries against its presidential elections.

«Venezuela denounces and alerts the world about an intervention operation against the electoral process, our right to self-determination and the sovereignty of our country, by a group of foreign governments and powers.“, according to a statement, which also points to Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and the Dominican Republic.

The Venezuelan government also accused former Colombian presidents Iván Duque and Andrés Pastrana, Argentina’s Mauricio Macri, and Costa Rica’s Óscar Arias, of being part of this alleged operation, as well as U.S. senators Marco Rubio and Rick Scott, whom it called “far-right hitmen politicians specialized in destabilizing governments in Latin America.”

According to the administration of Nicolás Maduro, “they intend to distort what was expressed” this Sunday “in peace and with a civic spirit” in the Caribbean country, when millions of Venezuelans went out to vote for one of the ten candidates for the Presidency, among them the current head of State, who is seeking a second re-election.