Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro speaks to the press after appearing before the Supreme Court on August 9, 2024. Photo: Presidential Press.
Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro stated that he will speak to the presidents of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Colombia, Gustavo Petro, and Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, to discuss issues related to the electoral process that took place in Venezuela.
“A conversation with the three presidents is pending. Let us hope it happens, and as I always do with all the presidents I have spoken to in the world, I will explain in detail a situation that is complex to understand because there is a lot of manipulation and a lot of lies in the world,” he said on Saturday, August 9.
In this regard, President Maduro explained that the call was being arranged by the foreign ministries.
“I was ready on the phone. It was at five in the afternoon, and in half an hour, they told me that due to some issues, it could not be done. I then asked the foreign minister to inform the foreign ministries that I am on the phone 24 hours a day, whenever the presidents want to talk. So it is pending,” President Maduro explained.
Carter Center is prejudiced against Venezuela
President Maduro criticized the Carter Center for lending itself to the opposition’s coup agenda. He said that the Carter Center no longer has the rigorousness it had with its founder, former US President Jimmy Carter and that the current officials are employees of US billionaire George Soros. Therefore, the organization’s electoral observation mission arrived in Venezuela with a report already prepared.
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“One thing is that the Center is named after Carter, and another thing is that all its rigorousness is a thing of the past,” President Maduro continued. “All the officials are from the George Soros Foundation, and the current spokesperson, who spoke yesterday, is a State Department employee. They arrived prejudiced in Venezuela, with a report already prepared. But the height of what they could say is that they certify that there was no cyberattack in Venezuela when it is public and well known that the cyberattack was brutal: 30 million attacks per minute on the electronic systems of the National Electoral Council, and today, all Venezuela’s institutions are under attack.”
He pointed out that the United States is the only country in the world that controls the internet.
Venezuela wants respect, independence, and understanding from the US
When asked about a report published by The Economist stating that the United States would be willing to give Maduro “anything,” he responded that he was “happy.”
He said that if a “US genius” were willing to grant him three wishes, he would first ask for respect for Venezuelan democracy. The second wish would be respect for the independence and stability of Venezuela. The third would be to reach an “agreement of understanding for 50 years where they stay where they are and leave Venezuela and all of Latin America alone. Those are the three wishes I ask the gringo genius.”
Translation: Orinoco Tribune
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