U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the United States has ‘serious concerns’ about the announced result of Venezuela’s hotly contested presidential election that authorities say was won by incumbent Nicolas Maduro.
Speaking in Tokyo on Monday shortly after the announcement was made, Blinken said the U.S. was concerned that the result reflected neither the will nor the votes of the Venezuelan people. He called for election officials to publish the full results transparently and immediately and said the U.S. and the international community would respond accordingly.
ITT: people that think Maduro’s government isn’t a corrupt clown show.
You guys do know the US state department isn’t always lying, right? If Maduro had such a strong mandate why would poll watchers get turned away?
Welcome to Lemmy, where Murica Bad, and the less Murica it is, the more unequivocally good it is.
Where is the lie?
Yes Maduro is a corrupt dictator but the only reason why the state department is saying that is because it goes against Us interest. He couldn’t give a damn about venezuelans people. If it was a pro west dictator he wouldn’t say that.
It actively effects us when they get together in a caravan and cross our border because their county is corrupt all the way at the highest level.
Maybe if your country didn’t get involved into fucking up the democracy of that region for corporate interests, I would have some sympathy.
Yes, because we printed all the Bolivar they printed causing hyperinflation. What in the fuck are you talking about?
A couple years ago the US Navy committed international piracy by stealing a Venezuelan oil tanker that was trying to sell Venezuelan oil. And that’s just one example of the years of economic interference we’ve been fucking them with.
It’s true that Venezuela’s economic troubles didn’t start with our embargo, but it’s also true that our embargo makes things ten times worse.
Only when their lips are moving.
It’s always funny to see folks in Western countries carefully triangulate between corrupt liberal parties, then express slack-jawed horror when foreign voters do the exact same math.