The regional left also asks Maduro for transparency and Arce is left alone

Luis Arce was left alone in the region, even far from the regional left. His support for Nicolás Maduro He distanced himself from his allies, such as the Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, or the Colombian Gustavo Petro. All his South American colleagues condemn what is happening in Venezuela and there are also left-wing forums that call for transparency after the alleged fraud committed by Maduro last Sunday.

Leonel Fernández and Ernesto Samper, former presidents of the Dominican Republic and Colombia, respectively, joined the voices calling for the National Electoral Council (CNE) to Venezuela publishes the minutes of the vote in which Nicolás Maduro was announced as the winner.

That is actually the position taken by the Puebla Group, but with dissent of former Spanish President José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. This left-wing forumof which both sides of the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) are members, have distanced themselves from Maduro and are calling for transparency from the Venezuelan electoral body.

Both Fernández and Samper were observers of the elections in Venezuela as part of the Puebla Group. Zapatero and Chilean Marco Enriquez-Ominani were also observers. were part of the left-wing forum’s delegation. The Chilean politician also asked the CNE to publish the minutes.

All South American presidents – except the Bolivian one – have called for transparency in the vote count in Venezuela. All of them also did not recognize Maduro’s reelection, with the exception of Luis Arce. Not even the left-wing South American leaders support Maduro’s reelection, such as Gabriel Boric of Chile; Lula Da Silva of Brazil; or Gustavo Petro of Colombia. Even worse are the presidents of Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, Ecuador and Peru.

Yesterday, the Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), Luis Almagro, urged Maduro to acknowledge his defeat in the Venezuelan presidential elections or call for a new, more transparent vote. The European Union (EU), the United States government and the United Nations (UN) have taken the same position. Mexico, through its president, Manuel López Obrador,He suggested that the OAS not intervene in the Venezuelan elections because it is an “uncredible” entity.

Unlike the Carter Center, which deployed a total of 17 electoral experts in three states of Venezuela, In addition to Caracas, the OAS, like the European Union, was not authorized to supervise the conduct of the vote, regrets that during this electoral process the Maduro government has applied “a repressive scheme complemented by actions aimed at completely distorting the electoral result.”

For their part, US President Joe Biden and his Brazilian counterpart Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva urged, In a joint statement announced by the White House, the government of Nicolás Maduro is urged to immediately release the complete election results, detailed and transparent with which the president was declared the winner.

According to the Washington statement, Biden and Da Silva acknowledged that the situation in Venezuela “represents a critical moment for democracy in the hemisphere.”

The same statement indicates that both leaders committed to having a “close coordination” on the subject of Venezuela. Meanwhile, the Peruvian government recognized opposition leader Edmundo González as the president-elect of Venezuela.

“The left in the region is divided, it doesn’t know what to do with this indecipherable creature that is Chavismo. There is a nostalgic left that believes that Venezuela is still in the Chávez era. It is a more emotional left, one could say thoughtless, but I do not want to disqualify. I can understand that figures like “Evo Morales feels grateful to Chavismo. On the other hand, there are the new leaders of the Latin American left, such as Boric and Petro, who recognize that what is happening in Venezuela is different from the first years of Chavez,” said Argentine political scientist José Natanson.

In Bolivia, Arce did not refer again to the situation in Venezuela. The only one who did was Minister Eduardo Del Castillo, who justified, through his social networks, Maduro’s supposed victory. “The political farce that Venezuela is currently experiencing is nothing new, In several countries, attempts have already been made to spread the false idea of ​​“electoral fraud,” the authority wrote.

– PETRO AND THE SILENCE
Colombian President Gustavo Petro did not comment -until last night- on what happened after the elections in Venezuela. The president arrived yesterday in Bogotá from Paris, France, and asked for a report on what happened in Caracas.

– OAS MEETING
The OAS yesterday denounced, through a statement, that the presidential elections in Venezuela suffered “the most aberrant manipulation.” Today, the Permanent Council of the OAS will meet to analyze the results in Venezuela.