Juan Manuel Santos calls for increased pressure on Venezuela
Former Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos called on the international community increase pressure on the government of Nicolás Maduro so that there is a peaceful transition in Venezuela.
He said that the countries of the world must insist more vehemently on the Venezuelan case because “impunity cannot be accepted” of a regime that it considers violates human rights and acts against all norms and protocols.
“The international community must increase pressure,” he said in a statement to Deutsche Welle in Spanish.
Although Santos said that it is not his responsibility to request recognition of the democracies of Edmundo González as president-elect of Venezuela in the elections of July 28, He did say that the former diplomat had obtained the majority of the votes.
The former president did not want to comment on the mediation of the governments of Colombia and Brazil. However, He expressed that he hopes that the efforts will be successful of the Colombian presidents Gustavo Petro and Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
“It is unacceptable that a regime goes unpunished,” says Juan Manuel Santos
Former Colombian President calls for increased international pressure to bring about peaceful political change in Venezuela.
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International mediation, led by Brazil and Colombia, insists on the need for the electoral records that prove the alleged victory of Nicolás Maduro are published. They also call for the results to be verified impartially.
These governments close to Maduro have frequently asked the National Electoral Council to present data broken down by voting table, in an attempt to increase transparency and confidence in the electoral process.
Unlike the Venezuelan regime, the democratic opposition published on the Internet the minutes it managed to collect on July 28 and, according to that documentation, Edmundo González He was overwhelmingly re-elected with almost 70% of the votes.
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