U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the United States has ‘serious concerns’ about the announced result of Venezuela’s hotly contested presidential election that authorities say was won by incumbent Nicolas Maduro.
Speaking in Tokyo on Monday shortly after the announcement was made, Blinken said the U.S. was concerned that the result reflected neither the will nor the votes of the Venezuelan people. He called for election officials to publish the full results transparently and immediately and said the U.S. and the international community would respond accordingly.
So, a coup in a couple years then?
ITT: people that think Maduro’s government isn’t a corrupt clown show.
You guys do know the US state department isn’t always lying, right? If Maduro had such a strong mandate why would poll watchers get turned away?
You guys do know the US state department isn’t always lying, right?
Only when their lips are moving.
ITT: people that think Maduro’s government isn’t a corrupt clown show.
It’s always funny to see folks in Western countries carefully triangulate between corrupt liberal parties, then express slack-jawed horror when foreign voters do the exact same math.
Yes Maduro is a corrupt dictator but the only reason why the state department is saying that is because it goes against Us interest. He couldn’t give a damn about venezuelans people. If it was a pro west dictator he wouldn’t say that.
“None of
ourthe other candidates got any votes!”The opposition ran a bunch of far-right reactionary psychos and still crested 44% of the vote. That’s definitely indicative of how far Maduro has fallen in popularity, even after an economic rebound in the wake of COVID.
But when you run stupid candidates, you win stupid prizes. They tried to get another Jeanine Áñez white nationalist style lunatic into the President’s mansion and they flopped.
the U.S. and the international communitythe U.S. and the 15% of the world’s population that comprise the West
Fixed that
Here’s a large collection of international reactions. Your assertion that the west is the only bloc with concerns is way off base.
That’s pretty much 75 % of America + ‘Europe’. Not even a third of the global population.
Guess we’ll have to wait for China and India to weigh in before we’re allowed to have an opinion I guess…
Apparently facts get dislikes around here
