US is leading a conspiracy against Venezuela financed with “dark funds”: foreign minister

The US is leading a conspiracy against Venezuela financed by dark backgrounds: chancellor

Xinhua, Europa Press and AFP

The newspaper La Jornada
Wednesday, August 14, 2024, p. 27

Caracas. Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yván Gil denounced that the United States designed and directed a great conspiracy against his country that was financed with dark backgrounds.

On the social network Instagram, Gil commented that The coup operation, designed and directed from Washington, has no limitsin response to a statement by White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre.

Now the spokesperson proclaims herself electoral authority in Venezuelathe chancellor denounced.

The US spokeswoman said that Two weeks have passed since the elections, it is very clear to the majority of the Venezuelan people, the United States and a growing number of countries that former opposition candidate Edmundo González obtained the most votes and President Nicolás Maduro must recognize it..

He added that the government of President Joe Biden He says and will continue to say that more than 80 percent of the minutes published by civil society and the opposition are corroborated by independent observers..

Gil replied: “The reality is that all of his answers are due to lobbies well paid, all the questions and comments in the press conference pantomime are charged, framed in the great conspiracy against Venezuela.”

The questions Venezuelans are asking themselves are: Who is paying for this? What are the dark funds financing this operation? Please answer, Mrs. Jean-Pierre!demanded the head of Venezuelan diplomacy.

The controversy is part of the post-electoral context in Venezuela, following the presidential elections of July 28. After voting day, the electoral authority announced the re-election of Maduro, while the opposition, without evidence, has denounced fraud, with the backing of Washington.

Gil urged the European Union’s high representative for foreign policy, Josep Borrell, not to encourage a fake government trying to make Gonzalez One Guaidó tworeferring to the fact that in January 2019, led by the United States, dozens of countries recognized the opposition leader Juan Guaidó legitimate president from Venezuela.

Borrell has already failed once and now has defeat painted on his forehead againGil pointed out, after accusing the head of European diplomacy of being bent on throwing the governments of Europe into the void.

Hours earlier, the European official reported that he had a telephone conversation with González and demanded that the Venezuelan National Electoral Council publish the voting records.

At the time of this edition, a panel of experts from the United Nations Organization determined that the CNE did not comply with the basic measures of transparency and integrity essential for holding credible elections.

He added that the electoral authority It also failed to follow national legal and regulatory provisions, and all established deadlines were missed.according to a preliminary report.