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Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador claimed on Wednesday that his stance on Venezuela’s post-election crisis had “helped” prevent an “overflow” of violence in the country, where protests have left 25 people dead and more than 2,400 arrested.
During the morning meeting, the president defended his common position with Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Colombian President Gustavo Petro to “await the final results” in Venezuela, where the National Electoral Council (CNE) has declared Nicolás Maduro the re-elected president.
“The view we maintained with President Lula and President Petro was that there should be no violence, and this call helped because the confrontation remained, but the violence did not spread,” the Mexican president said.
Earlier, more than 25 civil society organizations in Caracas asked Latin American governments to take “concrete actions” to “stop the human rights crisis” in Venezuela, where they recorded deaths and detentions after protesting the results of the July 28 election.
In contrast, López Obrador stressed that the South American country was “fortunately not experiencing a spillover”.
“Now my opponents will say that I deny that there is violence in Venezuela. No, I do not deny it, and it would only make it worse by confronting so many stakeholders,” he said.
The president criticized the “international accusations” and the “reorganization of right-wing movements” surrounding Venezuela, questioning the Organization of American States (OAS) and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s recognition of the victory of his opponent Edmundo González Urrutia.
He insisted Mexico “must wait” before recognizing the winning candidate and trust “the decision of the electoral bodies.”
In addition, he said that “everything went well” on election day, but “things started to fall apart in the evening and neither side announced any results.”
“We are not part of any electoral body in Venezuela, this is a matter of concern to the Venezuelan people and we want to resolve the dispute peacefully, which has always been our foreign policy, and to be careful not to allow ourselves to be carried away,” he argued.
Venezuela’s opposition has called for protests against the official results next Saturday, with marches planned in major Mexican cities including Mexico City, Monterrey, Guadalajara and Tijuana.
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