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.
So, a coup in a couple years then?
Suddenly a far right military dictator that very much likes the US takes power in the near future. Wouldn’t be the first time, or second or third…
One of the problems with the Maduro government is that he keeps arming his working class supporters. Consequently, you have dipshit wanna-be commandos getting held up at gunpoint in small fishing towns.
O boy this is gonna be civil. Does the United States have an interest in Venezuelas election because they have the largest oil reserves in the world? Or do they really care about the people in a foreign nation?
Venezuelan oil is rich in sulphur, so it is less attractive. It requires special infrastructure and buyers who have the installed capacity to deal with heavy crudes, like China and India.
PS: funnily enough, Guyana’s crude is from a different geological segment and of higher quality and highly valuable, no wonder Maduro wants to annex it.
Guyana’s crude is from a different geological segment and of higher quality and highly valuable
The US couped Guyana back in the 60s and never let the country out from under its boot heel.
Great, even if true, let’s start an international war to fix it, right Sr. Maduro?
One man’s illegal invasion is another man’s democratic liberation. But this whole thing reeks of the Iraq/Kuwait conflict of '91, complete with arguments over who owns which oil field and shady corporate executives leaning on domestic news media to get people’s hate up.
No, no it isn’t, Saddam invaded Kuwait to annex it. Let’s hope Maduro does not try to invade Guyana to annex it.
Saddam invaded Kuwait to annex it
Saddam invaded Kuwait to halt their slant drilling project into the transboundary Rumaila oil field.
That’s an extremely flimsy claim given the PPP, an explicitly Marxist party, has held power in Guyana multiple times including this exact moment. I guess socialist solidarity ends when there are resources to extract?
And yes I am aware the party just removed ML and socialism from their constitution but that hardly makes them US stooges.
PPP, an explicitly Marxist party, has held power in Guyana multiple times
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irfaan_Ali#Candidacy
Immediately following his selection, Ali was accused of academic fraud, with opponents claiming that when Ali was in his early 20s, he had misrepresented one of his qualifications. Ali was also indicted on 19 charges of other fraud for allegedly defrauding the state of over $174M between 2011 and 2015, allegedly conspiring with persons unknown to “greatly undersell” 19 plots of state lands at Plantation Sparendaam and Goedverwagting in Demerara-Mahaica to current or former government officials.
The trial on the matters was postponed several times. He was granted self bail on the charges. The lands, which were sold for $39.8M, are valued at $212.4M, according to the Special Organized Crime Unit (SOCU). On 14 August, the charges were dismissed.
Explicitly Marxist guy who privatizes state lands to his business buddies for a fifth their asking price. Sounds very Marxist.
And yet he’s still a leader of the party that Kennedy tried to sideline in the coup you mentioned. He’s hardly the first person to sell out for personal gain.
A party that’s been hollowed out by corruption. It’s no more the Party of Marxism than the American Republican Party is the Party of Lincoln.
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?
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.
Welcome to Lemmy, where Murica Bad, and the less Murica it is, the more unequivocally good it is.
Murica Bad
Where is the lie?
You guys do know the US state department isn’t always lying, right?
Only when their lips are moving.
ITT: people that think Maduro’s government isn’t a corrupt clown show.
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.
“None of
ourthe other candidates got any votes!”The opposition ran a bunch of far-right reactionary psychos and still crested 44% of the vote. That’s definitely indicative of how far Maduro has fallen in popularity, even after an economic rebound in the wake of COVID.
But when you run stupid candidates, you win stupid prizes. They tried to get another Jeanine Áñez white nationalist style lunatic into the President’s mansion and they flopped.
ITT: Tankies being apologists for an equally corrupt regime who obviously rigged an election.
I also rolled my eyes when I saw the headline. US don’t really have much of credibility on this one. But tankie wankers think the election result is perfectly okay simply because “suck it 'Murica”.
the election result is perfectly okay simply because “suck it 'Murica”.
America is ontologically evil, therefore anything America doesn’t like is good. QED.
It’s more that we’ve got a long history of Sec of States going on record saying things that are categorically untrue. Could ABC News find us a slightly more trustworthy source? Perhaps an unnamed Iraq informant code-named Curveball? Or an FBI informant with Neo-Nazi ties looking to rat on a civil rights icon? Bill Clinton talking about a blowjob? Literally anyone more trustworthy.
the U.S. and the international communitythe U.S. and the 15% of the world’s population that comprise the West
Fixed that
Here’s a large collection of international reactions. Your assertion that the west is the only bloc with concerns is way off base.
That’s pretty much 75 % of America + ‘Europe’. Not even a third of the global population.
Guess we’ll have to wait for China and India to weigh in before we’re allowed to have an opinion I guess…
Apparently facts get dislikes around here
