Chavista government expelled government missions that questioned the results of the elections; protests 1 day before the event end with opponent arrested
The Venezuelan government has severed relations with at least 8 Latin American countries since the country’s courts declared the victory of President Nicolás Maduro, with 51% of the votes, in the July 2024 elections. The Chavista takes office for a 3rd term this Friday (10.Jan.2025).
Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Peru, Panama, Dominican Republic and the Uruguay they had the diplomatic missions in Caracas on July 29th – 1 day after the election. The governments of these countries had questioned the electoral result. The opposition alleges that there was fraud.
The custody of the Argentine and Peruvian embassies was by Brazilian diplomacy – which also did not recognize Maduro’s victory and demanded the publication of the electoral records. The intervention sought to preserve the facilities. In the Argentine case, there were still 6 Venezuelans in asylum there.
More recently, on Monday (Jan 6), the Venezuelan government’s relations with Paraguay, after President Santiago Peña (Colorado Party, right-wing) received and declared support for the self-proclaimed president Edmundo González (Democratic Unitary Platform, center- right), who ran against Maduro in July 2024.
On the other hand, the Maduro regime was recognized by Boliviaby Luís Arce (Movement to Socialism, left-wing); Cubaby Miguel Díaz-Canel (Cuban Communist Party, left); peel Nicaraguaby Daniel Ortega (leftist Sandinista National Liberation Front) and by Hondurasby Xiomara Castro (Liberty and Refoundation Party, left-wing).
BRAZIL X VENEZUELA
Despite not having broken, the relationship between the Chavista regime and the president’s government (PT) also deteriorated during the period.
Brazil, which was one of Venezuela’s main allies in the region, said it would not recognize Maduro’s victory until the voting minutes were published – a measure that was never taken by the country’s Electoral Court.
The tremor reached its peak after Brazil Venezuela’s entry into the BRICS. The Maduro government measure as a “aggression” and compared the PT government to that of the former president (PL).
With the sequence of friction, Lula will not attend his former ally’s inauguration. a Brazilian ambassador in Caracas, Glivânia de Oliveira, in place.
G7 SUPPORTS GONZÁLEZ; CARACAS THREAT
In a joint opinion released in November 2024, the foreign ministers of the G7, the group of the 7 largest economies in the world, reiterated their recognition of González’s victory in the Venezuelan elections.
Following this, the Chavista government said it will review diplomatic relations with each country.
“It is particularly ironic that these same countries, which made a huge noise of ridicule in 2019 by recognizing an impostor as ‘interim president’, are teaching lessons about popular will and electoral processes. They try, from the colonialist and imperialist complex, to prepare the ground to disrespect the institutions and decisions of the Venezuelan people with the fantasy of a Guaidó 2.0 who will once again clash against the dignity of Simón Bolívar’s heirs”, says the statement from the Venezuelan Foreign Ministry.
Here are the countries that make up the G7:
- USA;
- Canada;
- United Kingdom;
- France;
- Germany;
- Italy; and
- Japan.
CORINA PROTESTS AND PRISON
Thousands of Venezuelans took to the streets against Maduro 1 day before his inauguration. Acts were recorded in Caracas, Mérida and Chacao. Former congresswoman María Corina Machado led the demonstrations. She is Maduro’s main opponent and is an ally of González.
After leaving a demonstration in the capital, María Corina was approached and detained, according to the opposition. She would have been kidnapped, being “violently intercepted” after “agents of the regime” shoot against the transfer of politics. The opponent would have been released about an hour later.
The facts are being debated in Venezuela. Communication Minister Freddy Ñáñez said that Maria Corina’s team had faked the persecution and called them “fascists”.
He posted a video that circulates on social media in which the opponent says she is fine. However, the opposition claimed that Corina was forced to record the record. She had not made public appearances for at least 5 months.
“I’m fine, I’m safe. Today is January 9th and we participated in a wonderful gathering. I was pushed, my bag fell, the little blue bag that contained my belongings fell into the street, but I’m alive.”said the leader of the Venezuelan opposition on record.
In the video, María Corina appears in a black coat and with her face covered by a hood. Sitting on the curb, she holds what appears to be a bottle of water and speaks in a low, shaky tone.
VENEZUELA SOB MADURO
Venezuela lives under an autocracy headed by Nicholas Maduro62 years old. There is no freedom of the press. People can be arrested for “political crimes”. THE published in May 2021 (PDF – 179 kB) regarding the “illegitimate appointment” of the National Electoral Council.
A reported abuses in (PDF – 150 kB), (PDF – 161 kB) e (PDF – 151 kB). da Human Rights Watch in 2023 (PDF – 5 MB) states that 7.1 million Venezuelans have fled the country since 2014.
Maduro denies that the country lives under a dictatorship. He says there are regular elections and the opposition simply cannot win.
The presidential elections on July 28, 2024 are contested by the international community. The main opposition leader, María Corina, in June 2023 to hold public office for 15 years. The Venezuelan Supreme the decision in January 2024. He claimed “administrative irregularities”that were allegedly committed when she was a deputy, from 2011 to 2014, and for “corruption plot” for supporting Juan Guaidó.
Corina indicated the ally Corina Yoris to compete. However, Yoris because of an alleged flaw in the electoral system. The diplomat Edmundo González the role of being the main opposition candidate.
Venezuela’s government-controlled National Electoral Council on July 28, 2024, Maduro’s victory. The organ the result on August 2, 2024, but did not publish the ballots. The Venezuelan Supreme Court of Justice, controlled by the current regime, on August 22, 2024 that the bulletins will not be published.
The Carter Center, a respected organization created by the former US president (1924-2024), that the elections in Venezuela “they were not democratic”. Read the (in English – PDF – 107 kB) of the statement.
The results have subsequently been contested by the European Union and by several individual countries, such as the United States, Mexico, Argentina, Costa Rica, Chile, Ecuador, Guatemala, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Dominican Republic and Uruguay. Brazil has not yet recognized Maduro’s election in 2024, but neither does it make tougher demands like other countries that point to fraud in the process. The president (PT) not having seen anything unusual in the country’s election.
Human Rights Watch criticized presidents Lula, Gustavo Petro (Colombia) and Andrés Manuel López Obrador (Mexico) in August 2024. They stated in a letter sent to the 3 that it was necessary for them to reconsider their positions on Venezuela and criticized the leaders’ proposals to resolve the impasse, as a and general amnesty. Read the of the document (PDF – 2 MB).
