▲ Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino López (front) demonstrated his loyalty to the Bolivarian Executive.Photo Xinhua
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The newspaper La Jornada
Saturday, September 14, 2024, p. 21
Caracas. The Venezuelan armed forces, which expressed absolute loyalty President Nicolás Maduro, criticized the sanctions yesterday for alleged electoral fraud against four senior military officers – from a list of 16 officials – applied on Thursday by the United States. Washington warned that it will take additional decisions if the president does not publish the minutes of the elections of July 28.
Among those sanctioned are officials of the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ), the National Electoral Council (CNE) and Parliament.
We are not blackmailed nor do we let ourselves be intimidated by the imperial scourgesaid the statement from the military leadership, read on television by the Minister of Defense, General Vladimir Padrino.
The military accused the White House of a new act of gross interference with the desperate and irrational purpose of overthrowing the government of Maduro and to establish a puppetin reference to the right-wing opposition candidate Edmundo González, exiled in Spain, although without mentioning him, and they declared alert to any type of threatand announced that they will preserve order.
Later, Maduro decorated the four military personnel sanctioned by the United States and described them as ridiculous US measures. They will not be able to stop the course of the Bolivarian revolution, not with threats, sanctions, or anything, not today or ever again.said Maduro, proclaimed re-elected for a third consecutive term of six years, until 2031
White House’s punitive measures criticized
What they (the United States) will never be able to understand is that their sanctions are decorations in the soul of the patriots who love our Venezuela.the president continued in an official act, in which he described the sanctions as ridiculous.
Meanwhile, the CNE and the TSJ responded in separate messages to the sanctions imposed by the United States government against some of their members. The CNE stated that this is a infamous act of interferenceand promised to continue firm, united and stronger than ever against any underhand attackThe council insisted that the result of July 28 is unquestionable. He denounced, however, the United States electoral system, one of the most pathetic and obsolete of the world, unable to give certainty in its results and that arouses Many doubts. The United States government lacks the moral authority to evaluate and comment on electoral issues, much less in Venezuela, where there is a system with the highest global standards.the electoral body stressed in a statement.
For her part, Caryslia Rodríguez, president of the TSJ, described the court as a pillar of peace facing Systematic external threats that seek to weaken institutions and democracy from Venezuela.
Finally, the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-People’s Trade Treaty also rejected the new sanctions issued by Washington against Venezuelan officials, while Pope Francis urged the Venezuelan government to dialogue and stated that Dictatorships are useless and end badly, sooner or later..