Venezuela calls 11 countries that question Maduro’s reelection violent accomplices

EFE

The Venezuelan government on Friday called the 11 American countries whose governments do not recognize Nicolás Maduro’s electoral victory in the July 28 presidential election, which, although ratified by the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ), continues to be questioned by a large part of the international community, violent accomplices.

In a statement, Caracas “rejects, in the strongest terms, the rude and insolent statement from the governments” of Chile, Argentina, Costa Rica, Ecuador, the United States, Guatemala, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, the Dominican Republic and Uruguay, in which these countries denounced that the TSJ “intends to validate the electoral results” “without support.”

These countries “intend to continue violating international law, committing an unacceptable act of interference in matters that only concern Venezuelans,” the document says.

In Venezuela’s view, with these positions, the eleven countries “endorse and become complicit in the criminal violence” unleashed in the post-election protests – for which the Government blames the opposition – which included the “use of transnational criminal gangs hired for this purpose.”

“Venezuela demands absolute respect for its sovereignty and independence” from governments that “are once again trying to impose a policy of regime change,” the statement continued.

In any case, the Government assured that it will “pulverize each and every one of the actions that these countries try to initiate” “through their failed governments against the Venezuelan people.”

In a joint statement, the governments of the eleven countries cast doubt on the “supposed verification” carried out by the TSJ of the results issued by the National Electoral Council (CNE), both institutions controlled by people close to Chavez.

“Our countries had already expressed their disapproval of the validity of the CNE declaration, after opposition representatives were denied access to the official count, the non-publication of the minutes and the subsequent refusal to carry out an impartial and independent audit of all of them,” they added.

The largest opposition coalition, the Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD), claims that its candidate, Edmundo González Urrutia, won the presidential election by a wide margin and published “83.5% of the electoral records,” which it said were collected by witnesses and polling station members, to reinforce its claim, which has been supported by several countries and national and international organizations.

The CNE declared Maduro the winner without having published the disaggregated results, a point that was included in the schedule of the contest, which has been demanded by a large part of the international community. EFE