Argentines Reject Comments by Colombian and Brazilian Presidents on Venezuelan Elections
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, Aug. 2024. Photo: X/ @laprensalara
August 16, 2024 Hour: 10:39 am
The proposal to establish a ‘transitional cohabitation government’ plays into the hands of U.S. geopolitical interests.
On Thursday, the Argentine Chapter of the Network of Intellectuals and Artists in Defense of Humanity (REDH) deemed the proposal by Colombian President Gustavo Petro and Brazilian President Lula da Silva to establish a “transitional cohabitation government and new free elections” in Venezuela as offensive.
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The Argentine network pointed out that while the intention of both leaders might be “to calm their incomprehensible impatience to know the definitive results of the presidential election,” Petro and Lula seem unwilling to wait for the legal deadlines for the publication of the Venezuelan election results. However, not long ago, they waited more than two months for Mexican authorities to announce the results of the presidential elections in their country.
“What’s going on with them now? Why don’t they wait for the legally mandated deadlines, which give the Venezuelan National Electoral Council (CNE) up to 30 days after the election to announce the final results? Are they unaware that these results couldn’t be immediately and fully published due to the massive cyber attack suffered by the CNE’s transmission platforms?” the Argentine intellectuals and artists asked.
The Argentine intellectuals and artists also noted that Colombia and Brazil’s proposal assumes that the Venezuelan presidential elections were fraudulent, “which is an irresponsible and unjust accusation that aligns perfectly with Washington’s agenda.”
“President Joe Biden has already expressed his support for the proposal of the two South American presidents and backed the holding of new elections in Venezuela. This maneuver implies the rejection of President Nicolas Maduro’s legitimacy and opens the door to appointing a Guaido 2.0 in that ‘transitional government’ and thus achieving the long-desired ‘regime change’ in Venezuela, which is a preliminary step to definitively seizing the world’s largest oil reserves,” they added.
The Network also questions what a cohabitation government would look like in Venezuela and wonders why Lula did not accept a similar proposal on January 8, 2023, when far-right supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro stormed the headquarters of the three branches in Brasilia.
“Lula didn’t do so for very good reasons, which are the same ones he now abandons by demanding a ‘transitional government and new elections’ in Venezuela. Along the same lines, why doesn’t Petro invite Alvaro Uribe to share power and thus achieve the long-awaited pacification of Colombia? Both Lula and Petro should know that a coalition government between a neocolonial and ousting fascism and the Chavista forces would be absurd, a true exercise against nature, whose outcome history shows would be nothing short of civil war.”
Finally, the network of Argentine artists and intellectuals highlights the stance adopted by Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who said he will wait for the final verdict of the Venezuelan electoral authorities before making a decision.
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