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Secretary Blinken Condemns Election Fraud in Venezuela While Turning a Blind Eye to the 2020 Election Fraud in the U.S.
In a stunning display of hypocrisy, Secretary of State Antony Blinken has joined forces with Latin American leaders to condemn alleged election fraud in Venezuela, all while conveniently ignoring the mounting evidence and concerns surrounding the integrity of the 2020 U.S. presidential election.
The Gateway Hispanic reported:
Venezuela’s National Electoral Council (CNE) announced tonight that President Nicolás Maduro was the winner of Sunday’s election, while opposition leaders in the race denounced serious irregularities in the counting process.
Shortly after the results were announced, Maduro thanked God for the results in his first remarks. “Thank you for giving this victory to the people who deserve it,” he proclaimed, emphasizing that “we were not born on the day of the cowards, of the lukewarm, of the faint-hearted; we were born on the day the liberator gave birth to this nation.”
Maria Corina Machado rejected Maduro’s victory and declared that Edmundo Gonzalez was the new president of Venezuela. Machado claimed that with 40% of the votes in his possession, Gonzalez had won with 70% of the votes, 40 percentage points ahead of Maduro. “This is the truth,” she stressed.
“We want to tell all Venezuelans in Venezuela and the entire world” that Gonzalez was victorious, said Machado, who led Gonzalez’s campaign after being barred from the election due to a 15-year political ban. “We have won in every state in the country.”
Edmundo González, a former diplomat who had never run for office, joined in the rejection of the results announced by the CNE: “Our fight continues and we will not rest until the will of the Venezuelan people is respected,” he declared. González added that electoral rules were violated in these elections and demanded that the electoral authorities present all the ballots cast by the voting machines to verify the counting data.
During a recent summit in Japan focused on regional security and democracy, Blinken criticized the Venezuelan government for its electoral practices and urged international support for free and fair elections.
“I want to speak quickly to the elections that just took place in Venezuela. We applaud the Venezuelan people for their participation in the July 28 presidential election,” said Blinken.
“We commend their courage and commitment to democracy in the face of repression and in the face of adversity. We’ve seen the announcement just a short while ago by the Venezuelan Electoral Commission. We have serious concerns that the result announced does not reflect the will or the votes of the Venezuelan people.