Panama, USA, Argentina, England, and Many More Countries Do Not Recognize Venezuela Elections
There are now 19 homicides and more than 1,200 people arrested for various crimes in Venezuela amid post-election protests demanding Maduro’s re-election in voting described as fraudulent by the Venezuelan opposition and questioned by international opinion. They attacked the headquarters of María Corina Machado’s party in Caracas at 3am. The Vente Venezuela movement reported that six hooded men without identification subdued security guards, threatened them and proceeded to spray paint, break down doors and take equipment and documents from the headquarters of the organization led by María Corina Machado. María Corina Machado has indicated that with 80% of the minutes they have collected, Edmundo González Urrutia won the elections in Venezuela and they do not recognize Maduro’s proclamation, made by the National Electoral Council. A Venezuelan opposition party journalist Roland Carreño, leader of Voluntad Popular was arrested and detained for allegedly committing terrorist acts against the regime of Nicolás Maduro, Venezuelan media reported. The Electoral Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) of Venezuela asked the National Electoral Council (CNE) on Friday for the minutes of the scrutiny and the final total of the presidential elections of July 28, as part of an investigation to “certify” the official result of these elections, which gives victory to President Nicolás Maduro.
According to ruling 026, the electoral body has three days to deliver these documents to the chamber, in addition to the “award record and the proclamation record” of the elections. The ruling also asked the CNE to provide “all elements” that prove “the reported cyber-attack against the institution’s computer system,” which represented an “impediment to the timely transmission of the election results.” The Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD) – published on a website “81%” of the electoral records that show, according to anti-Chavez supporters, that their candidate won the elections by a wide margin, a result recognized by countries such as Argentina, Panama, the United States and Peru, among others. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Friday threatened the United States (US) and “its partners around the world” with giving the oil and gas blocks operating in the Caribbean country to its allies from the BRICS group of emerging economies if the authorities of the North American nation “make the mistake of their lives.”
The US has recognized Edmundo González shown above with María Corina Machado, as the winner of Venezuela’s disputed election, claiming there is “overwhelming” evidence of Nicolás Maduro’s defeat, as anti-government protesters prepared to return to the streets to demand political change. Maduro, under whose 11-year presidency Venezuela has taken an increasingly authoritarian approach has been plunged into economic chaos, after claiming victory in last Sunday’s vote, despite a mounting body of evidence suggesting he lost. On Thursday night, the US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, rejected the incumbent’s claims and recognized González as Venezuela’s president-elect. Blinken said tally sheets obtained by Venezuela’s opposition indicated that González “received the most votes in this election by an insurmountable margin”. Panama has joined the countries that have recognized opposition leader Edmundo González Urrutia as the president-elect of Venezuela following the elections on July 28. Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino announced this Friday, August 2, through his account on social network X, that the country joins this recognition and hopes that “respect for the popular will prevails as the basis of democracy.”
Panama, Germany, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, El Salvador, the United Kingdom, Spain, the United States, Italy, Paraguay, Peru, Portugal and Uruguay have announced that, for the moment, they will not recognise the results of the elections. Panama is the country that is taking the most drastic action in this regard, after announcing the suspension of diplomatic relations with Venezuela and the withdrawal of diplomatic personnel from Venezuela. The Venezuela election dispute traps travelers trying to leave the country. Maduro cancels air travel from Caracas to key regional hubs. Panama closed travel to and from Venezuela. People who returned to vote are left stranded as protests mount amidst fierce fighting in the streets with close to 20 murdered in the streets and over 1200 jailed.
