The government of Nicolás Maduro has just ordered several Latin American countries to withdraw their diplomatic representations from Caracas, after they rejected the results of the elections held this Sunday in Venezuela.
“The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela expresses its strongest rejection of the interventionist actions and statements of a group of right-wing governments, subordinate to Washington and openly committed to the most sordid ideological postulates of international fascism, trying to re-enact the failed and defeated Lima Group, which seek to ignore the electoral results of the Presidential Elections held this Sunday, July 28, 2024, which gave victory as President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to Nicolás Maduro Moros, for a new Constitutional Period 2025-2031,” reads the first paragraph of a statement from the Venezuelan Foreign Ministry shared on social media by the foreign minister, Yván Gil.
“The Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, in light of this disastrous precedent that threatens our national sovereignty, decides to withdraw all diplomatic personnel from the missions in: Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Peru, Panama, Dominican Republic and Uruguaywhile demanding that these governments immediately withdraw their representatives from Venezuelan territory,” continues the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Maduro Executive.
Maduro warns that legal action could be taken
The statement also warns the aforementioned countries that “the Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela reserves all legal and political actions to enforce, preserve and defend our inalienable right to self-determination.”
The statement concludes by stating that the “Bolivarian Government will confront all actions that threaten the climate of peace and coexistence that has demanded so much effort from the Venezuelan people, For this reason we are against all interventionist and harassing pronouncements with which, repeatedly, they try to ignore the will of the Venezuelan People.”.
