Venezuelan armed forces reaffirm their support and loyalty to Maduro

Prensa Latina, Sputnik, Xinhua and Europa Press

The newspaper La Jornada
Monday, August 26, 2024, p. 31

Caracas. The Venezuelan armed forces reiterated yesterday their compliance with the ruling of the Electoral Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice, which certified the victory in the presidential election of President Nicolás Maduro, while Brazil and Colombia requested that the minutes be published broken down by voting table of the elections of July 28.

All members of the FANB ratify our absolute loyalty to Commander-in-Chief Nicolás Maduro and reject the continuous communications of calls for subversion, hatred and disobedience from the imperial lackeys, who violate our Magna Carta.said the strategic operational commander of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces, General in Chief Domingo Hernández Lárez, on his Instagram account.

Both presidents (of Brazil and Colombia) remain convinced that the credibility of the electoral process can only be restored through the transparent publication of disaggregated and verifiable data.said a joint statement issued this weekend at the end of telephone conversations between Presidents Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Gustavo Petro on the matter.

In turn, the Venezuelan vice president, Delcy Rodríguez, reproached the deputy of the Popular Party (PP) of Spain Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo on the social network X for defending her lap puppiesin reference to the leaders of the Venezuelan opposition, and reminded the Marchioness of Fascism that Venezuela became independent from the Spanish crown two centuries ago.

Rodríguez responded in this way to a message from Álvarez de Toledo, also on X, in which he described Rodríguez as corrupt, torturer and to be the close ally of (Jose Luis Rodriguez) Zapatero.

Meanwhile, Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yván Gil yesterday thanked the Bolivian government for its support in the struggle for the determination of the people and against fascism.

On behalf of President Nicolás Maduro, we thank President Luis Arce Catacora for his firm position in defense of the most sacred values ​​in our America: the self-determination of peoples! Venezuela will continue to win in its fight against fascism and the extreme right!said the head of Venezuelan diplomacy.

For her part, opposition member María Corina Machado thanked to the 27 countries of the European Union and its High Representative for Foreign Affairs for demanding that popular sovereignty be respected.