MCM thanked the support of eight foreign ministers in the OAS Council

Leader María Corina Machado thanked the foreign ministers of Ecuador, Uruguay, the Dominican Republic, Chile, Argentina, Peru, Paraguay and Panama for their support during the extraordinary session held this Wednesday by the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS), during which a resolution demanding that Venezuela reveal the minutes of the recent elections failed.

Through various messages published on the social network X, Machado expressed his gratitude to the Ecuadorian Gabriela Sommerfeld, the Uruguayan Omar Paganini, the Dominican Roberto Álvarez, the Chilean Alberto van Klaveren, the Argentine Diana Mondino, the Peruvian Javier González-Olaechea, the Paraguayan Rubén Ramírez and the Panamanian Javier Martínez-Acha Vásquez.

These countries, as well as Canada, Costa Rica, El Salvador, the United States, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica and Suriname, voted in favor of a text that urged the National Electoral Council (CNE) of Venezuela to publish “immediately the results of the vote” at each polling station.

It also calls for “comprehensive verification of the results in the presence of independent observer organisations to ensure the transparency, credibility and legitimacy of the results.”

The resolution, with no votes against but with abstentions, declared “an absolute priority to safeguard fundamental human rights in Venezuela, especially the right of citizens to demonstrate peacefully without reprisals.”

Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Grenada, Honduras, Saint Kitts and Nevis, and Saint Lucia abstained, while Dominica, Mexico, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Trinidad and Tobago, as well as Venezuela, which has been absent for some time, did not participate in the session.