Venezuela alerts the world to an intervention operation against the electoral process

Published at: 28/07/2024 11:37 PM

In a statement released by the Minister of People's Power for Foreign Affairs, Yván Gil, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela reported this Sunday that a group of foreign governments is carrying out an intervention operation against the presidential elections held in the country on July 28.

“This group, a version of the infamous, deceased and defeated Lima Group, which includes government officials from Argentina, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and the Dominican Republic, together with a group of ultra-right political assassins specialized in destabilizing governments in Latin America,” the text warns.

Among the ultra-right politicians, they mention Iván Duque, Mauricio Macri, Andrés Pastrana, Oscar Arias, Marco Rubio and Rick Scott, who “intend to distort what has been expressed today in peace and with civic spirit in our country, which is nothing other than the exercise of the people's right to choose”.

Below is the full statement:

The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela denounces and alerts the world about an intervention operation against the electoral process, our right to free self-determination and the sovereignty of our Homeland, by a group of governments and foreign powers.

This group, a version of the infamous, deceased and defeated Lima Group, which includes government officials from Argentina, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and the Dominican Republic, together with a group of ultra-right political assassins specialized in destabilizing governments in Latin America, such as Iván Duque, Mauricio Macri, Andrés Pastrana, Oscar Arias, Marco Rubio and Rick Scott, seek to distort what has been expressed today in peace and with a civic spirit in our country, which is nothing other than the exercise of the people's right to choose.

The right to vote is exercised in Venezuela with absolute freedom and legality under the aegis of our laws and the control of one of the five Public Powers of the State, the National Electoral Council. And it is done through a transparent, secure and inviolable system, recognized as one of the best in the world, which fully guarantees the principle of one voter, one vote.

The same people who recognized a puppet in 2019 intend to impose it today in 2024.

This miserable and desperate operation is destined to fail because Venezuela is a free and sovereign country and will never accept impositions or blackmail, especially from foreign bodies without morality and legality to attack our rights and our people.

Caracas, July 28, 2024

Mazo News Team