The Venezuelan government expressed its disagreement on Tuesday with the US decision to recognize opposition leader Edmundo González Urrutia as the elected president of Venezuela.
According to Caracas, this is a ridiculous decision and a repeat of a mistake made in 2019, when the US recognized Juan Guaidó as the country's self-proclaimed interim president, with the intention of removing Nicolás Maduro from power.
"The only place you can't come back from is from ridicule, as the popular saying goes. However, [US Secretary of State Antony] Blinken, a confessed enemy of Venezuela, insists on doing it again, now with a Guaidó 2.0, supported by fascists and terrorists subordinate to US policy", said the Venezuelan Minister of Affairs, in Threads.
On the same social network, Yván Gil Pinto also states that, "in the last days of his government, [Blinken] should dedicate himself to reflecting on his failures, rid himself of imperial and colonial complexes and go and write the memoirs of how the Bolivarian Revolution made him bite the dust of defeat, as well as his predecessors".
"The literary plan of yet another Secretary of State who has sunk, along with his puppets, in an attempt to reverse Venezuelan democracy never fails", he stresses.
On Tuesday, the United States recognized Edmundo González Urrutia as the elected President of Venezuela, who claims victory over Nicolás Maduro in the July elections.
"The Venezuelan people spoke out forcefully on July 28 and chose Edmundo González as their elected President. Democracy demands respect for the will of the voters", said Blinken on social media.
The US administration of Joe Biden had previously stated that González had received the most votes in the elections, but without officially recognizing him as President-elect.
The European Union (EU), which has not yet officially recognized González, said on Monday that it would consider sanctions against the regime of Nicolás Maduro due to the deterioration of the situation in Venezuela and after considering that the declared President-elect "did not win the elections".
At a press conference in Brussels, after the meeting of the 27 foreign ministers, the head of EU diplomacy, Josep Borrell, announced that the European bloc "will review the system of sanctions" against a government that "does not consider that it won the elections".
"We do not recognize its legitimacy and we will continue to support the people of Venezuela in their democratic struggle", said the head of European diplomacy.
Venezuela held presidential elections on July 28, after which the National Electoral Council attributed the victory to Maduro, with just over 51% of the vote, while the opposition claims that Urrutia obtained almost 70% of the vote.
The Venezuelan opposition and many countries have denounced electoral fraud and demanded that the voting records be presented for independent verification.
The election results were contested in the streets, with demonstrations repressed by security forces, with authorities recording more than 2,400 arrests, 27 deaths and 192 injuries.
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