‘I have no doubt this election has been stolen,’ says Chile’s leftwing president after Venezuelan supreme court ruling
Ten Latin American governments and the US have said they “categorically reject” the Venezuelan supreme court’s decision to confirm Nicolás Maduro’s widely contested claim to have won re-election, with Chile’s president declaring: “I have no doubt this election has been stolen.
Strikingly, the communique was endorsed not just by conservative governments that have long been hostile to Maduro’s purportedly socialist movement, but also by the administration of Chile’s progressive president, Gabriel Boric – now one of the Venezuelan’s most outspoken leftwing critics – and that of Guatemala’s centre-left leader, Bernardo Arévalo.
“Continued attempts to fraudulently claim victory for Maduro will only exacerbate the ongoing crisis,” Vedant Patel, a state department spokesperson, told reporters. Brazil and Colombia – whose leftwing leaders both have warm, historical ties to the political movement Maduro inherited from Hugo Chávez – have also refused to recognise his re-election without seeing detailed voting tallies. Brazil’s Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Colombia’s Gustavo Petro, whose diplomats have been exploring possible ways of defusing the growing crisis, are expected to issue a joint statement later on Friday.
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