He President of Chile, Gabriel Boricsaid on Wednesday that he has no doubt that the government of Nicolas Maduro try “commit fraud” by failing to publicly present the minutes of the Venezuelan presidential election of July 28, in which he was proclaimed the winner.
“I have no doubt that the Maduro regime has attempted to commit fraud,” Boric said. in a statement at the presidential palace of La Moneda. He also questioned why they refused to show the electoral records: “If they had won, they would clearly have shown the records,” said the Chilean president.
In this regard, the leftist president pointed out that would only recognize results verified by independent international organizations. “Chile does not recognize Maduro’s self-proclaimed victory. We also do not trust the independence or impartiality of the current institutions in Venezuela,” he reiterated.
Boric was one of the first leaders to question the transparency of Venezuela’s presidential elections. On the night of the elections, he said that the results, which gave Maduro a 51.2% victory, were “hard to believe.” In retaliation for the Chilean government’s stance on the electoral process, Venezuela expelled the Chilean diplomatic delegation in Caracas.
He Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yván Gilreacted immediately. “Mr. @GabrielBoric has placed himself to the right of Milei and the US State Department, his mask has definitely fallen, his Pinochet-style coup government is exposed,” he wrote on the social network X.
Boric condemned the “serious violations of human rights” in Venezuela
The President of Chile pointed out that In Venezuela, “serious human rights violations are being committed”repressing people who are demonstrating and, in addition, initiating criminal prosecutions that are ridiculous.”
According to the Venezuelan human rights NGO Provea, the death toll in the Latin American country in the context of opposition protests against Maduro’s re-election rose to more than twenty. Meanwhile, Venezuelan authorities report the deaths of two soldiers in violent incidents that broke out on election night.
Anyway, Boric also did not recognize the opposition member González Urrutia as a winner of the elections, as the governments of Argentina, Ecuador, Peru, Uruguay, Costa Rica, Panama and the United States have done.
Gabriel Boric met with Lula da Silva and supports negotiations in Venezuela
The president of Chile met with the Brazilian president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silvaon Monday in Santiago. The Brazilian leader is one of those in charge, along with the Colombian president Gustavo Petro and to the Mexican Andres Manuel Lopez Obradorto promote a way out of the crisis in Venezuela.
For his part, Boric bet on the “efforts that countries that have Negotiation and dialogue skills with the different parties involved”, although he recalled the situation with the so-called “acting” president Juan Guaidó, recognized by several countries in 2019 and urged not to make the “same mistake.”
“The commitment to peace is what leads us to call the parties to dialogue and to promote understanding between the government and the opposition,” said Lula days ago, whose government has not openly recognized the reelection of Nicolás Maduro, but at the same time avoids making too many statements on the subject.
Source: Ambito
