No coup in Venezuela! Demand that the U.S. respect Venezuela's democracy

Alliance for Global Justice congratulates the Venezuelan people for a well-organized electoral system that was implemented on July 28 in an atmosphere of peace. We also congratulate President Nicolás Maduro on his re-election and the Venezuelan National Electoral Council (CNE) for fulfilling its constitutional duty by administering a free and fair election. We categorically denounce reports by hostile foreign governments and corporate media sources aligned with them that seek to undermine the legitimacy of the Venezuelan election and the results announced by the CNE.

We repudiate the insinuation of fraud that, in a destabilization campaign coordinated by the United States and including several of its client states in Latin America and elsewhere, purports that there are irregularities in the July 28 vote count. Such claims have been repeated by the far-right opposition to the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) for several months leading up to Venezuela's presidential elections, with U.S.-backed candidate Edmundo González refusing to accept the election results unless he wins. It should be noted that these claims have been made against the broader backdrop of multiple assassination attempts against Nicolás Maduro pointing to different North American agencies as the intellectual authors of the attacks, "heavy investment" aimed at influencing Venezuelan civil society via funding agencies such as USAID and the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and the renewal of illegal U.S. sanctions on Venezuela in violation of the Qatar Agreement.

Unsurprisingly, the July 28 electoral victory of President Nicolás Maduro has been met with aggressive opposition from the Venezuelan far-right, under the orchestration of U.S.-funded Unitary Platform leader María Corina Machado and her puppet Edmundo González. González is among the only candidates who has refused to accept the terms of the Barbados Agreements, which required all parties to recognize the results of the elections and refrain from any engagement in violence. González, a former diplomat and alleged CIA agent with ties to the notorious School of the Americas, has joined Machado in promoting violent far-right mobilizations across the country, calling on the "international community" to reinforce the opposition's claimed victory while refusing to cooperate in the Supreme Court of Justice's investigation of the elections.

We are not surprised to see the Venezuelan people responding to this latest attack on their revolution by taking to the streets to defend their vote and their democracy. We pledge to do the same in our respective countries, and to demand that the United States and all countries respect the decision expressed by the Venezuelan people on July 28, as announced by their legitimate authorities. We demand respect for Venezuela’s self-determination and reject all attempts by the United States and its geopolitical allies to interfere in and destabilize Venezuela's sovereign affairs. Such efforts are not only in violation of international law but also basic standards of diplomacy.

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