• 2 months ago
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro slams a "coup d'etat" led by the United States, after the results of last weekend's presidential election were called into question. On Thursday 31 July , top US diplomat Antony Blinken said there was "overwhelming evidence" that Maduro's rival Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia had won the election, a claim backed by a number of Latin American leaders. The next day, on 1 August, Argentina, Ecuador, Uruguay and Costa Rica recognized Urrutia as Venezuela's president-elect.
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00:00It is very important that I denounce that the US government, along with Elon Musk and the international fascist Demilay,
00:15are at the forefront of a process of destabilization and a coup d'etat against the people and against Venezuelan democracy.
00:28That is why Blinken is desperate in an unusual gesture, in the US diplomacy,
00:37and goes out to say that they have the results.
00:40Naguara, we would say from here.
00:43That is, Blinken and the State Department have the results.

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