Riffing Off a Tired Old Score
The US denies, without evidence, the official results of the Venezuelan election, for the second time in a row.
[Washington D.C police storm the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington, 2019.]
Published: 2024-08-03
Given the overwhelming evidence [which I'm not going to provide], it is clear to the United States ... that Edmundo González Urrutia won the most votes in Venezuela’s July 28 presidential election
announced US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken.
Blinkenlights is riffing off a old script which the US State Department ran with the Organisation of American States (OAS) back in 2019, the last time sitting president Nicolas Maduro won an election in Venezuela. While attending the election in the capital Caracas as an international election observer, invited by the Venezuelan government's ruling party, Canadian lawyer Dmitiri Lascaris warned the world, in the likely event of the US or other Western vassal states calling the election into doubt, to demand evidence.
One of the consequences of the last round of the US ignoring Venezuela's election authority's count of the vote and proclaiming an 'interim president', one CIA-offshoot trained Juan Guaido, was the US storming of Venezuela's Embassy in Washington D.C.. Pressure had been placed on local service providers to terminate power to the building. Friends of the Venezuelan government moved into the building at the invitation of the Venezuelan government to ensure occupancy. Neither the occupancy nor that the premises was a diplomatic mission prohibited Washington D.C's police from storming the property in a flagrant violation of the Vienna Conventions.
This was the first in what is now a long run of Embassy violations world-wide. Back in April this year Mexico's embassy in Ecuador was stormed to remove former Vice President of Mexico Jorge Glas. Israel then upped the ante by firing missiles at the Iranian embassy in Damascus and murdering occupants.
At the time when the US was proclaiming a ruler in Venezuela who had never stood for the presidency, it was still running the end of the RussiaGoat Hoax in which it was apoplectic that some company in the Russian Federation had run a bunch of shitty meme ads on Facebook, half of them after the US election. This hypocrisy of “one standard for us” and nothing even similar for you is emblematic of the International unwritten Rules Based Order which the US has been telling the world it needs.
One of the positive outcomes of the US repeated attempts to violate Venezuela's elections and state integrity was that a collection of talented young journalists had opportunity to work on similar projects. Among them were Anya Parampil, Benjamin Norton and Max Blumenthal, who all collaborated in documenting the siege and then storming of the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington. Parampil was inside the embassy for some of the siege.
The ongoing project to deny socialist leader Maduro and install a nobody became so stinky that US vassals in Europe gave up on it. Given that this cost them some political credibility, their response to the same playbook being issued by the US State Department liar in chief Blinkenlights, will be interesting to see. The same political organisations, like the Organisation of American States, are being reused to stamp out any non-Capitalist and non-compliant government in the US Monroe Doctrine's, "our hemisphere" backyard.
Given the litany of failure of uncoordinated US foreign policy over the last 20 years, one wonders just how politically suicidal the US sycophants in Europe will be. Will they support this obvious re-run of a failed strategy to deny the autonomy of a UN member state? Given the changing state of the world with the ascendancy of BRICS+ and the SCO, supporting pathetic coup re-runs will do no more than continue to tarnish the little reputation which European states still possess, given their support of a genocide in Gaza and a war which has been lost on their own continent.
Whatever the case, the world's population has seen this tired and deadly show before. The US is belittling itself at the hands of its impotently arrogant puppeteers.
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Sources
US Rejects Venezuelan Election Results, Declares Opposition Candidate the Winner, Kyle Anzalone, Antiwar, 2024-08-02
Venezuela vote results unreliable, says OAS body, (the editors), Reuters, 2024-07-30
political interference
Venezuela Opposition Says Its Victory Is Irreversible, Citing 73% of Vote Tallies, (Reuters), U.S.News, 2024-07-29
parroting propaganda
US activists vow to protect Venezuelan embassy, CODEPINK, Green Left, 2019-05-31
Watch Americans defend Venezuela’s embassy in DC from takeover by coup forces, Anya Parampil, The Grayzone, 2019-04-26
Latin American countries condemn Ecuador raid on Mexico embassy, Al Jazeera, 2024-04-07
Doubling Down on Stupid, YesXorNo, 2024-04-19
Venezuela votes: A close look inside Venezuela's polling stations, Dmitir Lascaris, Dmitri Lascaris, 2024-07-29
Raw Footage: Police Raid Venezuelan Embassy in DC, Remove "Embassy Protection Collective", News2Share, 2019-05-17
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The U.S. is complaining about election results that international elections observers said were fair and accurate.
The U.S. in which Kamala Harris is an election candidate with no primary election. And in which the government is trying to imprison a leading opposition candidate.
The U.S. in which a presidents son became president by getting Supreme Court judges appointed by his father, to stop counting votes not in his favour.
The U.S. which is having hicjacked Ukrainian elections has supported Zelensky to stop any elections and imprison all his political opponents.
The U.S. that’s funny.
Pull the other leg now.
For once, Anthony Blinken is right. The ‘official’ results of the Venezuelan election are blatantly and grossly fraudulent. Maduro was no more legitimately elected than Biden, who, like a typical third-world dictator is prosecuting the opposition on bogus charges (and so is Maduro.)