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The newspaper La Jornada
Friday, August 30, 2024, p. 29
Caracas. Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yván Gil yesterday rejected the ridiculous threats uttered by the head of the United States Southern Command, Laura Richardson, who assured from Chile that Democracy and its fundamental values remain under attack on a global scale, and we need look no further than Venezuela, where Nicolás Maduro continues to undermine the democratic will of the Venezuelan people.; Gil also criticized the despicable interventionist position from the State Department.
The statements by the US military chief come in the context of a national and international controversy regarding the recent presidential elections in Venezuela, in which the opposition alleges, without evidence, irregularities, and the government accuses political adversaries of executing a plan designed in Washington to ignore the popular will.
In response, Gil expressed this morning on Telegram that The head of the Southern Command chose to go to Chile, where her predecessors met with (dictator Augusto) Pinochet to lead Plan Condor, in which thousands of Latin Americans were murdered.to talk about the exercise of good politics.
According to the chancellor, Richardson is referring to democracy attacking Venezuela, where fascism and the heirs of Latin American dictatorships are being fought, who today dream of reversing the revolutionary processes in our region.
For Gil, “Richardson’s cynicism is enormous. His ridiculous threats do nothing to motivate the small violent and ‘terrorist’ groups that have failed again in our country,” he said.
A history of intervention
The head of Foreign Affairs also wrote on Telegram: The US State Department insists on its despicable position of interfering in matters that are none of its business in response to Matthew Miller, spokesman for the State Department, who called, on the social network X, for President Nicolás Maduro and their representatives recognize and respect the will of the people.
Gil recalled that Venezuelans elected Maduro on July 28 for the 2025-2031 six-year term and We do not owe explanations to any foreign authority, much less to the hostile empire..
He described it as shameless to the High Representative of the European Union (EU) for Foreign Affairs, Josep Borrel, for not admitting the Chavista victory, after the European bloc indicated that it will not recognize democratic legitimacy of the Bolivarian government that governs the South American country.
Meanwhile, the National Prosecutor’s Office once again called the former opposition presidential candidate Edmundo González to appear today, and warned that he will be arrested if he ignores the summons again, since this is the third summons issued by the Prosecutor’s Office against González, who already ignored two previous summons this week because he considered that the Public Ministry acts as a political accuser that would subject him to a process without due process guarantees.
Machado demands support
On the other hand, the opposition member María Corina Machado demanded that the Spanish government lead in the EU the process of recognizing González as winner of the elections.