Emir Olivares and Alonso Urrutia

The newspaper La Jornada
Saturday, August 24, 2024, p. 21

We will wait for the minutes to be announced.said President Andrés Manuel López Obrador in response to a question about whether his government will recognize Nicolás Maduro as the president of Venezuela after the Supreme Court of Justice of that country declared him the winner of the last election.

He indicated that although the Venezuelan electoral court maintains that President Maduro won the election, at the same time recommends that the minutes be made public, I believe there is a date in the resolution.

During yesterday’s morning press conference at the National Palace, the president, when asked if he believes that the Venezuelan authorities will really make the minutes public, replied: I don’t make assumptions about that, precisely because we are respectful of the decisions that are made in other countries..

He reiterated that his government will wait for the necessary documents to be delivered before making a statement regarding the post-electoral crisis facing the Bolivarian nation.

We will wait for the minutes to be released, because it seems that the court has decided and asked the (National) Electoral Council to release the minutes..

He denied having spoken with Maduro during this period of crisis to exchange opinions on the electoral situation.

No, no. That is what our opponents think, imagine, and spread slander. We are very respectful.he stressed.

The actions of our country’s president in foreign policy, he said, must be based on Article 89 of the Constitution, which establishes that the head of the Executive must observe three normative principles: self-determination of peoples, non-intervention and the peaceful resolution of disputes.

He compared the position his administration has taken on the issue of Venezuela with the one it took in the case of Peru, where President Pedro Castillo was removed from office and imprisoned.

There were other reasons, there a president was elected and a group of conservatives, racists, also obedient to the national and foreign oligarchs who dominate Peru, carried out a coup against the president of Peru and imprisoned him. It is different.