“Given the overwhelming evidence, it is clear to the United States and, most importantly, to the Venezuelan people that Edmundo González Urrutia won the most votes in Venezuela’s July 28 presidential election,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement Thursday evening.
Blinken did not say the United States was recognizing González as Venezuela’s president.
Of course not! We [the USA] prefers the hand picked quisling “president” Juan Guaido. We failed in our 2019 attempted coup d’etat in Venezuela to place Guaido in the presidency.
Simply amazing how our politicians got their panties in a twist of purported Russian influence in the US election process while we actively meddled in interior Venezuela affairs.
US sanctions & Maduro incompetence & thieving corruption have depopulated Venezuela largely of skilled labor devastating its oil industry.
Maduro merely has to step down so we install our puppet and the good life can return to Venezuela. Now is that too much to ask?
That is the foundation of being “Shiny”. Standards of justice and decency that Shinies hold the rest of the world to, do not apply to the actions of Shiny-land.
US sanctions & Maduro incompetence & thieving corruption have depopulated Venezuela largely of skilled labor
But those Venezuelans are not welcome in Shiny-land!
The U.S. government may grant advance travel authorization to up to 30,000 noncitizens each month to seek parole on a case-by-case basis under the processes for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans.
To participate, eligible beneficiaries must:
Have a supporter in the United States;
Undergo and clear robust security vetting;
Meet other eligibility criteria; and
Warrant a favorable exercise of discretion.
In September of 2023 the administration:" gave 200,000 migrants the right to obtain work authorization and live in the U.S. without fear of deportation."
…100,948 forms were filled out by 3,218 serial sponsors — those whose number appears on 20 or more forms. It also found that 24 of the 1,000 most used numbers belonged to a dead person. Meanwhile, 100 physical addresses were used between 124 and 739 times on over 19,000 forms. Those addresses included storage units. One sponsor phone number was submitted on over 2,000 forms, and there were 2,839 forms with non-existent sponsor zip codes, according to the leak.
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One mildly wonders why nobody bothered to check for these things over the last two years.
Venezuelans with European roots have been getting EU country passports. I got my German passport in 2005 when Chavez was almost deposed but came back. Recently a cousin got an Austrian passport. Her two daughters, engineers, got jobs in Germany years ago and so got residence.
The State Department’s unilateral declaration of González’s victory was lambasted by other governments, political analysts, and social movements. They accused the US of attempting to resurrect its failed “Guaidó plan,” in which the Trump administration unilaterally hand-picked a member of Venezuela’s National Assembly, declaring him constitutional president of Venezuela, while at the same time imposing crippling sanctions on the country, beginning a slapstick but deadly farce that would last for most than three years.
A handful of US-aligned countries in the region quickly followed suit. On Monday, González and his handler, María Corina Machado issued a statement on Monday unilaterally declaring González as “president-elect” and calling on the police and armed forces to follow his orders, to apparently little avail.But on the same day, the US government took a big step back. And then made a 180-degree turn. In a press conference, State Department Spokesman Matthew Miller clarified that the US still does not consider González as president of Venezuela:
Another failed US [indispensable nation] coup attempt.