Venezuela elections: Caracas orders expulsion of representatives of 7 Latin American countries for questioning Maduro’s victory
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The Venezuelan government this Monday demanded the return of diplomatic personnel in Caracas from Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Peru, Panama, the Dominican Republic and Uruguay.
Also ordered Return of Venezuelan representatives to these 7 countries The Chancellor of Latin America, Ivan Gil, announced this in a statement broadcast on the social network X.
Gil assured that it was a response to “the interventionist actions and statements of a group of right-wing governments, subservient to Washington, and openly committed to the most abhorrent ideological tenets of international fascism, who are trying to revive the failed and defeated Lima Group”.
In the statement, Venezuela’s foreign minister affirmed that his government “reserves all legal and political actions to respect, protect and defend our inalienable right to self-determination”.
They question Maduro’s victory
The announcement comes in the wake of Nicolas Maduro’s controversial victory in the July 28 presidential elections, which were announced by the National Electoral Council on Monday morning.
Venezuelan opposition, experts and officials from different countries Questions have been raised about the transparency and legitimacy of the processControlled by the government at all times.
Officials from Argentina, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, the Dominican Republic and Uruguay requested this Monday “a full review of the electoral results” and “an urgent meeting of the OAS Permanent Council to issue a resolution to defend the popular will”, according to a statement from the Argentine Foreign Ministry.
Argentine President Javier Mailey directly accused Maduro of committing crimes “Electoral fraudwhile Costa Rica’s Rodrigo Chaves considered the election “fraudulent”. Peru’s Foreign Minister, Javier González-Olechea, expressed himself similarly.
Chilean President Gabriel Boric described the election results as “hard to believe”, while Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou alleged that the investigation was “clearly flawed.”
The Panamanian government went a step further and announced the withdrawal of diplomatic personnel from Venezuela.
For its part, the Maduro government has not disclosed the detailed results of the minutes Officials at every polling station denounced – without offering evidence – an alleged computer attack on the voting system, which they attributed to opposition figures including leader Maria Corina Machado.
For his part, Machado claims he has copies of about half of the minutes that show a clear victory for opposition candidate Edmundo González.
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