Mexico, Brazil and Colombia, which last July jointly requested the publication of the disaggregated minutes of the elections in Venezuela, now propose “a Venezuelan solution” to the conflict that has worsened from abroad after the proclamation of the victory of the President Nicolás Maduro, said Mexican Foreign Minister Alicia Bárcena.
“We were waiting for the Supreme Court to make a decision. In the end, the three countries, Mexico, Colombia and Brazil, are in complete agreement that it has to be a Venezuelan decision: it is the people of Venezuela who have to take the actions,” said the head of Mexican diplomacy at a conference press at the headquarters of the United Nations (UN) in New York.
The proposal means a change in the position of the governments of Mexico, Brazil and Colombia regarding the internal affairs of Venezuela and its institutions, after the country’s highest judicial body determined as valid the electoral process that gave Maduro the winner. .
Bárcena said at the United Nations headquarters that “this is a national problem and has become an international problem,” and urged that “Venezuelans be allowed to make their own decisions with a certain sovereignty,” and made it clear that Mexico does not supports foreign intervention. “We do not believe in intervention,” he emphasized.
“We believe that the international community must give Venezuelans the opportunity to make their own decisions with a certain sovereignty (…) We are a country whose principle is non-intervention and respect for the sovereignty of other countries,” argued Bárcena in a press conference at the UN.
“The three countries, Mexico, Colombia and Brazil, are in complete agreement that this has to be a Venezuelan decision,” argued Bárcena.
On August 8, the three countries reiterated a request to the National Electoral Council of Venezuela to present the results of the presidential elections broken down by voting station, in order to clear up doubts of alleged fraud, and reaffirmed the convenience of verification impartial.
They also asked that Venezuelan security forces guarantee “the full exercise of this democratic right within the limits of the law,” and respect for human rights.
The aforementioned Council declared Maduro the winner, with 51.95% of the votes, compared to 43.18% for Edmundo González, of the opposition Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD, center), and the Electoral Court ratified the result.
The PUD ignored the results, denounced “fraud” and announced González, who received recognition from several Latin American countries and went into exile in Spain, as “elected president.”
