Laura Richardson said that the US and its “democracy team” are working to achieve peaceful solutions to the crisis in Venezuela
The head of the United States Southern Command, Laura Richardson, insisted on Thursday, September 19, on the commitment of her country and its allies to find a diplomatic and political solution to the crisis that the country is going through in Venezuela.
Richardson said this at the residence of the Colombian Ambassador to the United States, Daniel García-Peña Jaramillo, where he highlighted Washington’s collaboration with countries in the region in what he called a “democracy team,” since they share similar values and seek to work together to overcome the challenges that arise.
In this regard, he stressed that the work of the “democracy team” is necessary and essential to find solutions to the Venezuelan crisis, emphasizing that the problem experienced in the country has been affecting the continent for years due to the mass exodus of people seeking a better quality of life.
Recently, Laura Richardson stated that democracy and its values are currently under attack in the world and said that an example of this is what is happening in Venezuela today.
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Richardson’s words were offered during the opening of the South American Defense Conference held at the end of August in Santiago de Chile, where he said that President Nicolás Maduro continues to undermine the will of the Venezuelan people; which has been evidenced by the fact that some 7.5 million people have left the country, increasing irregular migration in South and Central America.
He said popular support for democracy and institutions are “under stress” and that democracy is working “overtime” to deliver its benefits to the people.
TO mid-SeptemberWhite House Homeland Security spokesman John Kirby warned Maduro that the US may issue more sanctions against Venezuelan officials “if he does not do the right thing” by publishing disaggregated data from the July 28 presidential election.
“We have issued sanctions. We are not going to rule out anything in the future,” Kirby said in a telephone press conference, where he stressed that Maduro “has options and decisions” that only he can make; the first of which must be to make public all the information by table and voting centers “so that everyone can see how those elections were conducted and how and to what extent the will of the Venezuelan people was really fulfilled.”
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