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Venezuela Blames US Republican Senators for Election Intervention
Nicolás Maduro is declared winner, while opposition calls it all a sham election
The Latino Newsletter
July 29, 2024
Venezuela’s elections on Sunday once again followed a predictable pattern with news of President Nicolás Maduro being declared the winner to earn another six years in office. According to the country’s National Electoral Council, Maduro won 51.2% of the vote to opposition candidate Edmundo González’s 44.2%.
Twitter (X) was filled with political statements and accusations all night long and into Monday morning. One official statement by the country’s Foreign Minister blamed foreign governments and politicians, including Florida Senators Marco Rubio (R) and Rick Scott (R), for creating an “operation of intervention.”
#Communiqué 📢 Venezuela denounces and alerts the world about an operation of intervention against the electoral process, our right to self-determination and the sovereignty of our Homeland, by a group of foreign governments and powers.
— Yvan Gil (@yvangil)
3:55 AM • Jul 29, 2024
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that the United States has “serious concerns that the result announced does not reflect the votes of the Venezuelan people.”
Rubio, whose Twitter profile was active all day Sunday and early Monday, blamed the Biden-Harris administration for a deal it had made with the Maduro regime to hold elections in the country in exchange for eased sanctions. Rubio called the election “a complete fraud.”
Biden & Harris broadly eased Trump sanctions on Maduro regime as part of a “deal” for elections in #Venezuela
Today was that election and it was a complete fraud
The latest example of how our enemies have suckered Biden and Harris repeatedly over the last four years
— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio)
5:05 AM • Jul 29, 2024
As with anything in Venezuela, Sunday’s election results are not the end of the story. Later this week, The Latino Newsletter will file a post-election story from Caracas.
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