NY.-. The Organization of American States (OAS) will meet on Wednesday to discuss the regional crisis caused by dictator Nicolás Maduro, who claimed victory in the Venezuelan presidential elections without allowing the opposition led by Edmundo González Urrutia and Marina Corina Machado to review the records that accredit the nearly ten million votes cast last Sunday in Venezuela.
Presidential candidate González Urrutia and opposition leader Machado defeated the populist regime and demand that the votes cast in their favor be counted. Maduro committed the biggest fraud in the history of Latin America and refuses to have the electoral records thoroughly reviewed in order to preserve his power in Venezuela.
On July 31, the Permanent Committee of the OAS will meet to address the crisis caused by Maduro, who in Latin America is supported by Bolivia, Cuba, Nicaragua and Honduras, and in the rest of the world by China, Russia, Syria, Iran and Madagascar.
The United States, Argentina, Chile, Canada, Ecuador, Guatemala, Panama, Peru, Paraguay, the Dominican Republic, Costa Rica and Uruguay are drafting a resolution to put pressure on Maduro.
Brazil, Mexico and Colombia support the need to make the results of the elections in Venezuela transparent, but they have their own agenda and measure their diplomatic offensive against Venezuela in relation to their regional interests.
The White House is leading the anti-Maduro movement. And its only goal is to ensure that the opposition can count Sunday’s votes. Joseph Biden assumes that such an action would strip Maduro and put Venezuela on a democratic transition path.
Alongside the United States, Javier Milei, Gabriel Boric and Justin Trudeau are pushing for the agreement. They have different ideological views and aim for the same institutional objective. Today, the consensus meetings will continue on the fine print and a final negotiation is expected to obtain the support of Brazil and Colombia.
Lula da Silva does not want to be aligned with the United States and maintains an open unilateral channel with Caracas. The Brazilian president has reservations about Maduro, but his personal weight and geopolitical contacts place him at the centre of the regional chessboard.
Only Lula can articulate a roadmap with China, Russia and Iran, the main allies of the populist regime. Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin and the ayatollahs coexist with the president of Brazil in the BRICS, and all four maintain that Venezuela is a key piece in conditioning the influence of the United States in Latin America.
Lula is also holding private talks with Biden’s National Security Council and the State Department. Brazil shares an endless border with Venezuela, and the United States is experiencing a strong undocumented migration that begins in Caracas and seeks to enter American territory by crossing the Rio Grande.
In this geopolitical context, the PT leader is necessary in the OAS to ensure that the draft resolution against Maduro’s systematic fraud achieves a strong regional consensus. Lula assumes the institutional chaos in Latin America, but moves cautiously to remain as a political arbiter.
Meanwhile, Maduro has made a move that has put the region in an unprecedented situation: not even with the Missile Crisis has Latin America suffered such a political fracture. Venezuela has expelled diplomats from eight countries – including Chile and Argentina – and the dictatorships of Nicaragua and Cuba appear alongside the populist regime.
The OAS has already suspended Venezuela for its dictatorial imprint. And at the next meeting of the Permanent Council it hopes to ratify its position as a regional forum. It does not have an effective resource to exorcise the fraud committed by Maduro, but there is sufficient political will to condemn a bloody regime that refuses to fall.Infobae.
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2024-07-31 08:27:05