AFP, Europa Press and Reuters
The newspaper La Jornada
Sunday, August 4, 2024, p. 16
Washington. The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), Luis Almagro, yesterday called for peace in the framework of the day of mobilizations called by both the opposition and the government in Venezuela, while in Germany, Spain, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland and Portugal they called in a joint declaration to the Venezuelan authorities to quickly post all records voting, a demand that is multiplying throughout the world.
Today we urge that there not be one more political prisoner, one more tortured, one more missing, one more murdered; Venezuela does not deserve that, it deserves a return to prosperity for the people, that the sovereignty that resides in that people today be recognized by all. The return to peace in democracy.Almagro published in the official OAS statement.
Meanwhile, the aforementioned European countries yesterday urged the Bolivarian authorities to quickly post all records voting.
Proclamation and its sides
To date, at least seven countries in the Americas, including the United States, Peru, Ecuador, Costa Rica, Argentina, Uruguay and Panama, have recognized opposition candidate Edmundo González Urrutia as the winner of the Venezuelan presidential election. Others, such as Russia, China, Iran and Cuba, have congratulated Maduro. Mexico, Colombia and Brazil are pushing for a political agreement.
In Chile, Foreign Minister Alberto van Klaveren stated that it is early any proclamation of a winner in Venezuela, even if it believes likely Gonzalez’s victory.
Van Klaveren made these statements yesterday when he received in Santiago the ambassador to Venezuela, Jaime Gazmuri, who was expelled by the Venezuelan authorities in response to the Chilean government’s refusal to recognize the victory of President Nicolás Maduro in the elections.
The head of the Carter Center’s electoral mission, Jennie Lincoln, an institution that attended the elections with a delegation of observers, highlighted the quality of the Venezuelan electoral system but regretted that five days after the vote only the first bulletin was published, with partial results that gave victory to Maduro.