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US Won’t Accept Venezuela Election Result

State Dept. Demands Full Recount

by Jason Ditz, April 16, 2013

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The Obama Administration has announced that they won’t accept the results of Venezuela’s weekend election, in which President-elect Nicolas Maduro narrowly defeated pro-US candidate Henrique Capriles.

The US State Department says that they want a “full recount” and say it was unacceptable for the National Election Council to certify the result before granting the US the recount it wants.

An anonymous US official conceded that no recount was likely, but said that the US was pretty much obliged to complain about the result so long as Capriles wants a recount.

Capriles has refused to concede defeat and has called public protests. Seven people have been killed in violence related to the protests, and Maduro says he holds the US responsible, believing the US embassy has funded the incidents.

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Robert Shule

So now the U.S.A. wants to start a war in Venezuela too?……….geeez.
- robertsgt40
  
  The only results we would accept would be the votes counted by Diebold
Mart

What a surprise!

What´s next? CIA or CIA funded snipers creating martyrs for neo-libarism and "democracy" amongst their own in the posh suburbia of Caracas?
What about the last 3 "elections" in the United snakes or referendums in €USSR? Not exactly a landslide victory for any of the those identical parties now, was it?
mojo

US government needs to go back and recount the votes during the Bush reelection and start prosecuting Jeff Bush for his roll while he was the florida governor.., US government needs to act democratically and start prosecuting the war criminals before wanting to demand anything regarding Venezuela votes or other venezuelan matters…, otherwise people of Venezuela have voted for socialism, a functioning democracy to continue developing the country, helping other South American nations to develop more.., I wonder if US Democratic Party have any functioning source or ideas or able to govern the country as a democratic system.., then demanding from any nation anything.., question is if USA elite of high ranking democrats even wants for USA to function as a democracy with respect to the principals of a functioning democracy.., hence, if that was the case USA would not be at war all the time proving that is not a functioning democracy but rather a falsified democracy based on its militarism and vulture capitalism system. Have you heard a socialist country being engaged in war as much as USA is…? On the contrary.., they are helping out, educating people, providing free education, universal healthcare and above all a functioning democracy where people given the right to participate in social political matters, which the Venezuela election is proof of the matter., in USA there are two political parties owned by the economic system in one hand and the militarism in the other, the Green Party leader was arrested when they wanted to participate in two party system debate, no any other party was invited to participate but the two party.., that is not a functioning democracy.., but you can call it a "democracy" which only works for the 1% and their militarism.
peoplepower

And once again, the US hates democracy. If a country isn't ruled by some rich jerk from the wealthy elite, we won't stand for it. Shameful. …. and wow, once again Obama is so very different from Dubya … not.
richard young

What a travesty this US position is! In the first place, the US spokesmen apparently do not know or care anything about Venezuelan election law, as the head of Venezuela's CNE (national election commission) has just pointed out. Venezuelan law does not provide for a recount, simply because a losing candidate wants one. There is a legal procedure for filing official election challenges in Venezuela, and until Capriles files such a challenge there is no legal basis for doing anything about the things he is complaining to the public about. (The exact same thing applies under US election laws, so why on earth would a US Government spokesman expect that the Venezuelan presidential election be reviewed simply because the losing candidate is unhappy with the result?) My (US) Government's position is particularly absurd when one thinks about the numerous phoney "elections" that it has had no trouble approving (as in Afghanistan and Yemen) — to say nothing of "friendly" dictatorships which have never had an election (Saudi Arabia, Jordan, etc.). Utterly disgusting.
- ATM
  
  Funny that the US has already recognized rebels as the rightfull leaders of syria. it does not matter that they are killing and maiming children mothers, fatherss and using makeshift chemical weapons. It seems that common sense, elections, law, and justice do not have much to do with policy these days. Everyone knows that Venezia has a fully automated computerized system where a recoiunt would not make sense. It seems that there is little value in pressing the recont recount button it always gives the exact same results.
Andron

Did this vote happen in Venazuela OR the US?
Does this mean that Venezeula , Russia or China can demand a recount in the next US Presidential Election?
dublinokarra

As if Venezuela needs acceptance from them. This is what makes me proud for not being an American citizen.
Winston Smith

If v, R and C had and got total recount in the 2000 and 2004 there would have been different results.

This shows just where Obama and the Obama-Kerry regime actually stand and how liberal the are(n't).
Edward

When does Venezuela get to lecture the U.S. about its dodgy elections?
Kishore

Utterly absurd ! Just because their candidate did not make it, the US wants a recount. Just who the heck is the US to approve or disapprove an election in another country ?
conumishu

OK, US won't accept the results. So ?
jim

ha, tell the USA to go and F*CK itself, goddamn nazis
Roger Lafontaine

Another CIA-secret ops engineered bloodbath in the making ? They're hoping to turn Venezuela into another Iraq/civil war ?
amacd385

President Maduro may seem a bit 'extreme' if we are to believe the reporting like this in the US MSM:

"The U.S. Embassy is the one who has financed and directed all the acts of violence in this country. It has financed these neo-Nazi groups," he said.

The U.S. State Department did not immediately respond to Maduro's accusation, but last month a spokeswoman said "the United States categorically rejects
allegations of any U.S. government involvement in any plots to destabilize the Venezuelan government or to harm anyone in Venezuela." [Source CNN]

However, the FIRST government in the world to recognize the puppet government of VICHY France in 1940, which was clearly a pawn of the Nazi EMPIRE that had; invaded, 'captured', and "Occupied" France, was the US government!

And now the LAST government to NOT recognize the; incumbent, validly re-elected, certified, and peoples' government of Venezuela is the EXACT ***king same government that so willingly, blindly, and cooperatively endorsed the Nazi EMPIRE's phony, puppet, VICHY regime.

So, those honest and accurate FACTS seem to show that the US government is the 'extreme' one, and that Maduro is merely calling the US what it is — a friend and liar for EMPIRE.

WOW, what a coincidence of DECEIT.

It seems that in terms of recognizing governments the US follows that old adage — "It takes one to know one" —- an EMPIRE, that is —- as the US itself is now so clearly nothing but a DUAL-Party Vichy sham of faux-democracy, which is merely a facade, or 'front' covering up for the Disguised Global EMPIRE that has likewise 'captured' and now fully "Occupies" our former country (and others).

Best luck and love to the fast expanding 'Occupy the
Empire' educational and revolutionary movement against this
deceitful, guileful, disguised EMPIRE, which can't so easily be
identified as wearing Red Coats, Red Stars, nor funny looking Nazi helmets —- quite yet!

Liberty, democracy, justice, and equality
Over
Violent/'Vichy' Rel 2.0
Empire,

Alan MacDonald

Sanford, Maine

We don't MERELY have; a gun/fear problem, or a 'Fiscal
Cliff', 'Sequestration', "Austerity" and 'Debt Limit' problem, or an expanding wars problem, or a 'drone assassinations' problem, or a vast income & wealth inequality problem, or a Wall Street 'looting' problem, or a Global Warming and environmental death-spiral problem, or a domestic tyranny NDAA FISA spying problem, or, or, or, or …. ad nauseam — we have a hidden EMPIRE cancerous tumor which is the prime CAUSE of all these 'symptom problems'.

"If your country is treating you like sh*t, and is bombing
abroad, look carefully — because it may not be your country, but a Global Empire only posing as your former country."
Guest

Maybe Vladimir Putin should send some Tu-160 Blackjack bombers (equivalent to USAF's B-1) back there to defend the Venezuelans. And perhaps a Typhoon ballistic missile submarine.
klyde

Obama another arrogant imperialist masquerading as a democrat.
John Ellis

Maduro won by 300,000 votes, a full third of a million, that’s good enough for me.
kenguru

Who the heck is US to accept or not to accept some election results. What if Venezuelans don't accept the last election results in the States?
CanuckBC

It has been tried so many times before – only in the time range since collapse of Soviet Union. We have had a string of so called color revolutions through the Eastern Europe and the states from former Soviet Union. Maybe the first one was so called "blue revolution" in Slovakia where after massive preparations and medial pressure directed by US ambassador Ralph R. Johnson the incumbent prime minister and designated bad guy by US won the elections but since his win was under 30% strong he was supposed to build a coalition with some weaker parties. After oposition parties consultations with US ambassador only one party was willing to go with him to coalition. Instead a coalition of losers was hastily created and took the power. Whole preparations of takeover was on Slovak side directed by US trained Pavol Demes, who actually dedicated his recent book Collective Portraits to US help to Slovak democracy.

Slovak Pavol Demes later used his training in helping with direction of "white revolution" in Yugoslavia in 2000, where people demonstrating against a win by Milosevic actually burned all ballots so nobody could recount them. US did not protest against this undemocratic treatment of ballots. Pavol Demes later coordinated "orange revolution" in Ukraine and "rose revolution" in Georgia. Maybe he was involved also in "green revolution" in Iran, But I did not find any references for that although it certainly had all signs similar to all previous "revolutions".

I remember a good article from Daniel McAdams of British Human Rights Group in 2001 about "color revolutions" in 2001, but since BHRG ceased to exist I was not able to find it again.

Non-acceptance of election result in Venezuela by US government actually shows that Maduro was right when he claimen that US interfere in Venezuelan matters.
Padraig

Unbelievable, this from a puppet president of the USA. Why on earth are Americans standing for this puppet, who lies and lies time and again while stripping the USA of its freedom.
jesus4581

What else can you expect from a country that had:
1. Killed over 60 millions of native americans.
2. Invaded more than 40 countries.
3. Threw 2 atomic bombs on civilians.
4. Used african people to do experiments on them.
5. Told many lies like: the trip to the moon, World trade center, Obama Bin Laden and so on.
6. Let the ku klux klan to murder black people whose ascendants were hunted in africa like animals.
7. Killed JFK, And probably his brother Robert too.
8. Used chemical weapons on Vietnan, North Korea, Irak and many other countries.
9. Induced cancer to his own people.
0. Once mastered this tecnique killed president chavez who wanted a world without: war, drugs, slavery,
Capitalism, Invasions and cruel people. and many more
DWya

He is coming soon! And he will hold in is hand a book. In this book will be the deeds of all mankind ,and judgement will be passed on all of us. Please return to earth father GOD and bring your holy justice upon all those who killed your children. Le it be so………………………………………