The US secretary of state insists Venezuelans' votes in the recent presidential election "must count".

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His intervention comes as the presidents of Brazil, Mexico and Colombia all called on Venezuela to release the full details of last Sunday’s election.

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It has also attracted global criticism, with many governments around the world demanding the Venezuelan government release proof of the result.

The result has been recognised by Venezuelan allies China, Russia and Iran.

But, the US, European Union and other G7 countries have called on Mr Maduro’s government to release detailed voting data.

  • generichate1546@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
    4212·
    3 months ago

    I’m going to wait until I see primary evidence, the US doesn’t have the most honest track records with South American countries

    • rottingleaf@lemmy.worldEnglish
      198·
      3 months ago

      Not just that, but it’s also that Anthony Blinken wrote Israeli propaganda articles since 80s.

      If you like conspiracy theories, he may have been familiar to J Epstein, who may have had ties with Mossad (then that whole pedophile operation makes perfect sense as a very efficient way to blackmail a lot of powerful people, and him offing himself makes more sense).

      If you don’t, the fact stands that Anthony Blinken has acted in the interests of a foreign fascist state since 80s.

      This may be a bit philosophical, but South America in general has much more progressive approach to international law than the rest of the world, the Montevideo convention as the most notable example, but also the first country to recognize the Armenian Genocide was Uruguay, and despite all the dictatorships, crime and trafficking I’d say in some sense it’s still the least fascist part of the world.

      In any case, who in their right mind really believes Maduro won? But I’m sure even Venezuelan opposition doesn’t want US to protect them Desert Storm style.

    • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      76·
      3 months ago

      What are you talking about the US has never done anything bad in south America, unless you count Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, ans Chile. Yeah the list is surprisingly short in south America.

      • kerrigan778@lemmy.worldEnglish
        32·
        3 months ago

        Uh… Colombia??? Kind of a biggie to leave out!

        *Edit, I’m sorry, I live next to the river, I’m used to spelling the name Columbia because we insisted on spelling his name wrong in the US whereas they kept the Italian spelling in South America, he was still a genocidal asshole who could not have discovered a place that already had inhabitants but also was not even the first European to go there though, maybe we shouldn’t name anything after him though technically the river is named after a ship which was named after the person.