Argentine diplomats describe chaos after being expelled from Venezuela

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Buenos Aires. Los Angeles diplomat Argentine out Venezuelan dictator, Nicholas Madurothey told Only through chaos can we escape The middle of the country Harassment At once Regime authorities.

Maduro was declared the winner of last Sunday’s election amid allegations of fraud. An Argentine delegation arrived in Buenos Aires on Saturday after the country recognized its opponent, Edmundo González Urrutia, as the winner of the election.

“We had to destroy a person’s life in three days,” Andres Mangiarotti, charge d’affaires at the Argentine Embassy in Venezuela, told several media outlets after arriving at Buenos Aires airport on Saturday.

Mangiarotti and 13 others made a 72-hour journey back to their homeland on Thursday after Maduro ordered his expulsion on Monday.

The diplomat reported that they experienced power outages at the embassy and that “there was a police presence at night, in cars with people wearing turbans and holding weapons,” which frightened the six opponents who had taken refuge at the embassy since March.

“On Monday to Tuesday night, police cars were carrying people wearing hoods and people thought the worst could happen, especially asylum seekers, who were in this situation because they feared for their lives,” Mangiaroti said.

Venezuela has expelled diplomats from other countries in the region who have demanded that their governments produce records to review or, as in Argentina’s case, simply point to fraud and recognize opposition candidate González Urrutia as the winner of the July 28 presidential election.

Argentina, Uruguay, Ecuador, Costa Rica and Panama recognized the opposition’s victory on Friday after repeated calls for transparency. Peru was the first country to recognize González Urrutia’s victory on Tuesday. The United States said there was “overwhelming evidence” that its opponent was the winner of the vote.

Brazil, in turn, is responsible for the custody and temporary representation of the Argentine embassy in Venezuela, as well as the security of the opposition there.

The National Electoral Council (CNE) certified Maduro as the winner with 52% of the vote, ahead of González Urrutia, a deputy to disqualified opposition leader María Corina Machado, who won 43%. No detailed results were provided.