A help for Nicolás Maduro: the OAS condemned the elections promoted by Chavismo and Argentina abstained

Natasha Niebieskikwiat

10/21/2020 11:44 AM

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Updated 10/21/2020 6:53 PM

In dissent with all the countries that make up the Lima Group (Brazil, Chile, Uruguay and others) and the position of nations such as the United States,

this Tuesday from voting in the 50th General Assembly of the Organization of States Americanos (OAS) that

 legislative

for December 6 made by the Nicolás Maduro regime in Venezuela.

The resolution that was voted in the OAS indicates "the lack of minimum democratic conditions to guarantee free and transparent legislative elections" in Venezuela as Maduro wants to impose them in the face of the refusal of the Venezuelan opposition.

There were

, among them those of the United States, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Uruguay and Venezuela, in this case represented by the parallel government of Juan Guaidó and the opposition National Assembly , which is not recognized by the management of Alberto Fernández.

along with eight other countries

: Barbados, Belize, Grenada, Guyana, Mexico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago.

: Antigua and Barbuda, the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.

The document approving condemns "the actions of the illegitimate regime of Nicolás Maduro that undermine the democratic system and the separation of powers, through the control of the Supreme Court of Justice and usurping the constitutional functions of the National Assembly to legislate on electoral matters and appoint a the members of the National Electoral Council ". 

Another resolution was also voted in the OAS, which was also promoted by the United States, which seeks to increase pressure on Nicaragua to reform its electoral system.

The regime of Daniel Ortega and his wife Rosario Murillo keeps the opposition close and they apply strong repression.

Argentina also abstained in this case.

The OAS Assembly also adopted by acclamation a

and the call for dialogue to resolve the conflict - as recommended by the UN - and that the UK does not respond. 

After reiterating that the Government voted twice in favor of the report of the High Commissioner for Human Rights at the UN, Michelle Bachelet -which reported

, Foreign Minister Felipe Solá punished in his speech before the Assembly to the Secretary General of the OAS, Luis Almagro.

Solá said that the body should play a role of "containment and mediation", be the guarantor of "pacification", but "never a judge or political gendarme."

The Fernández government maintains a

on Tuesday the President criticized him for the position he maintained in the face of the coup in Bolivia.

In Buenos Aires he is accused of "carrying out instructions" from the United States. 

The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, during a ceremony last week in Caracas.

Photo EFE

Solá complained that "the division of our Latin America based exclusively on what each country thinks about Venezuela has been happening for a few years."

On the other hand, he affirmed that the blockades and sanctions - such as those maintained against Cuba and Venezuela -

and only manage to "harden the hearts" of whom the punishments are aimed at. 

Since the triumph of Luis Arce last Sunday in Bolivia, a festive climate prevails in the Argentine government, which several foreign newspapers reflected as the momentum that the left is regaining with Bolivia, Argentina and Mexico.

In Kirchnerism they also trust that "correísmo" will return to power in Ecuador, and socialism in Chile.