CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The Carter Center said it was unable to verify the results of Venezuela’s presidential election, blaming authorities for a “complete lack of transparency” in declaring Nicolas Maduro the winner without providing any individual polling tallies.
The statement Tuesday night by the Atlanta-based group is perhaps the harshest rebuke yet of Venezuela’s chaotic election process because it comes from one of just a handful of outside groups invited by the Maduro government to observe the vote.
“The electoral authority’s failure to announce disaggregated results by polling station constitutes a serious breach of electoral principles,” the Carter Center said. The group, which had a technical mission of 17 experts spread out in four cities across Venezuela, added that the election did not meet international standards and “cannot be considered democratic.”
Because of John Bolton’s botched attempt to take over Venezuela, the US is not going to be taken seriously on this matter…even if they are right this time.
Thankfully there are plenty of other voices calling this out including most latin American countries (Including those with left wing governments) and European countries.
The Carter Center is not the U.S. government. In any way.
Yes…but it’s based in the US and … “US bad” :/
That’s literally not how anything works.
Human Rights Watch is in the U.S. Are they bad?
Jewish Voices for Peace, which has been doing great work opposing Israeli genocide, is in the U.S. So I guess genocide is good?
do I have to explain what I mean by “US bad”, the reductive tankie stance?
Sorry, I thought you were serious. Poe’s law and all.