US warns Venezuela of what will happen if they do not speed up the proceedings

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The United States warned on Wednesday that it is «running out of patience» waiting for Venezuelan authorities to publish the voting records.

The same ones that support the victory of President Nicolás Maduro, proclaimed by the Consejo Nacional Electoral (CNE) of the country, indicated EFE.

«Our patience and that of the international community is running out as we wait for the Venezuelan electoral authorities to be sincere»

«And release the full, detailed data on this election so everyone can see the results,» White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said at a news conference.

US issues severe warning to Venezuela

Kirby said the Biden administration «shares» the conclusions published by the Carter Center, EFE reported.

US-based organization invited by Venezuela as an observer, which considered that Sunday’s elections were not democratic.

The spokesman also said that the protests that have taken place in Venezuela these days are due to:

«The Venezuelan people are taking to the streets to demand that their votes be counted,» he said, adding that «they cannot be blamed for that.»

What did the US authorities dictate?

«We have serious concerns about arrest warrants that Maduro and his representatives may issue today against opposition leaders,» Kirby said.

Who condemned «political violence and repression of any kind.»

«The international community is watching and we will respond accordingly,» he warned.

In a separate press conference, State Department deputy spokesman Vedant Patel also said that the US is “running out of patience.”

Will there be no more patience towards the Maduro government?

Patel also stressed the impatience of the international community, and stressed that «more and more countries» are asking the CNE to publish the voting records.

Patel recalled that the Organization of American States (OAS) will hold an extraordinary meeting in Washington on Wednesday to address the situation in Venezuela.

The CNE declared Maduro’s victory early Monday morning with 51% of the votes, but the main opposition bloc claims to have 85% of the votes cast.

That would give victory by a wide margin to their candidate, Edmundo González Urrutia, who stood as a substitute for opposition leader María Corina Machado, who was disqualified from running.

Clarity is called for in the electoral process

The UN, the European Union, the United States, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Mexico, Argentina and Spain, among others, have asked the Venezuelan electoral authorities to publish the voting records.

To verify Maduro’s alleged victory, while thousands of people have taken to the streets of Venezuela to protest what they consider electoral fraud.

The White House, for its part, announced that it will postpone making decisions on Venezuela, including the possibility of imposing new sanctions, until all the voting records from the elections are published.

The Biden administration has «serious concerns that the announced results do not reflect the will of the Venezuelan people,» said John Kirby. WITH INFORMATION FROM EFE.

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