The United States has determined it will recognize opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez the winner of the Venezuelan presidential election, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a press release.
Given the overwhelming evidence, it is clear to the United States and, most importantly, to the Venezuelan people that Edmundo González Urrutia won the most votes in Venezuela’s July 28 presidential election, Blinken said in the release on Thursday.
Blinken called on the Venezuelan parties to begin discussions on a peaceful transition of power in accordance with Venezuelan electoral law.
Moreover, Blinken also said that the USA rejects President Nicolas Maduro’s unsubstantiated allegations against hell bend opposition leaders, including González and María Corina Machado, that have caused chaos and famine in Venezuela.
Machado co-founded the Venezuelan Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) Sumate which received significant financial support from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED).
In 2005, she traveled to the White House to meet then-US President George W Bush, a meeting that was described in classified diplomatic cables as poking [then murdered Venezuelan President Hugo] Chavez in the eye.
In 2014, she took a diplomatic position with the government of Panama, which gave her the ability to speak at the Organization of American States (OAS).
She used that platform to publicly call for foreign intervention in Venezuela. She has since been banned from running for office. Earlier this week, Maduro said Gonzalez and Machado must face justice.
On Thursday, RT journalist Fiorella Isabel reported that a draft resolution for the US House of Representatives was being floated around Washington looking for co-signers.
That draft calls for more sanctions on Venezuela and would now recognize González as the legitimate president of Venezuela. She added that the draft was authored by Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) and Mario Díaz-Balart (R-FL).
In 2019, the US officially recognized another political stooge, Juanita Guaido as the interim President of Venezuela. He was eventually removed as the leader of the opposition from his own party and currently lives happily ever after in Miami, Florida.
The National Electoral Council declared Maduro president-elect for 2025-2031 after the presidential elections were held in Venezuela on July 28, 2024. The Electoral Council said Maduro won 51% of the vote, while stooge Machado received only 44% to his tally.
Organized protests broke out the day after the election, leading to clashes between the police and hostile protesters in Caracas. Protesters threw stones, fired weapons and Molotov cocktails at law enforcement officers.
According to the Prosecutor General’s Office, 77 law enforcement officers were injured; more than 1,000 people were detained on charges of destruction of state infrastructure, incitement of hatred and terrorism.
The Venezuelan government said a number of American-backed countries interfered in the elections and the people’s right to self-determination.
Sputnik / ABC Flash Point News 2024.
Not the first time the US regime orders violence in other countries?
The next round of bullies, lies and deceptions using stupid people to do their dirty job!
So much for democracy especially when the US makes the call. This whole affair now is just El Puto Guido v 2.0. These so-called opposition of Machado and Gonzales need to be arrested and investigated for treason against the State of Venezuela.
India and China should build oil refinery designed to Venezuelan crude oil, import tons and tons of it. Win, win, win, triple win.
The USA that has the most advanced voting system in the world. “/s”… The US is the only country in the world where the dead can vote – Google “NPR: Study: 1.8 Million Dead People Still Registered To Vote”… In the US, the dead are also allowed to vote online in the comfort of their homes – Google “Tucker Carlson reveals list of dead people he says voted…”… Blinken got the middle finger from Maduro – Google “Nicolás Maduro blames Venezuela’s election unrest on US and far-right conspiracy”… Maduro also blamed Elon Musk for Venezuela’s Instability. Musk, the drug addict,… Read more »
How strange that in both Venezuela and France, the opposition backed one candidate, instead of their own party, to change the election outcome, and now in France the ” leftist winners” are not ruling the Country, but Macron , who came 3rd!! Go figure, in Venezuela they nearly got away with the coup, but didn’t fortunately!!
Hugo Chávez changed the way socialists viewed elections around the world. The left had long been skeptical about them. The main arguments were that elections are not a terrain on which the socialist left can compete or make bids for power, both because of the grip of capitalist ideology over the masses, and because of the bourgeois establishment’s control of real power before, during, and after the elections take place.