The president of Ecuador will not recognize the result of the upcoming elections in Venezuela

The president of Ecuador, Daniel Noboa, announced this Tuesday that he will not recognize the result of the upcoming elections in Venezuela.

“We do not agree, at all (…), that there are no free elections in Venezuela, but at this moment it is not that we do not recognize the Government of (Nicolás) Maduro,” he said in an interview with Ecuavisa television.

The president stressed that they will not recognize the result of the next elections, “since they have not been free elections.”

Ecuadorian Foreign Ministry criticizes the decision of the Supreme Court of Venezuela

Last Saturday, the Government of Ecuador rejected the political disqualification decided on Friday by the Supreme Court of Justice of Venezuela against the opposition presidential candidate María Corina Machado.

“Ecuador rejects the confirmation of the Supreme Court of Venezuela to disqualify, for 15 years, Mrs. María Corina Machado, opposition leader and winner of the October 2023 primary elections, from exercising public functions,” the Foreign Ministry stated on Saturday. Ecuadorian in your X network account.

He added that this “decision is contrary to the spirit of the Barbados agreements, aimed at facilitating the holding of democratic and transparent elections in Venezuela.”

For its part, the Venezuelan Government has assured that Machado’s case is “res judicata”, but has also stated that it will remain at the dialogue table with the opposition, which accuses him of having violated the agreements signed in Barbados last October. .

Daniel Noboa rejects offer

Last Tuesday, Noboa rejected the offer that Maduro made to him days ago to seek cooperation in Venezuela’s security instead of the assistance provided by the United States.

“Thanks but no thanks. That’s my answer. I have enough fights here in this country to win additional fights. Just no. Thank you very much,” said Daniel Noboa.

The Ecuadorian president thus responded to the advice given to him by his Venezuelan counterpart in his last presentation before the National Assembly (Parliament) to learn from Venezuela’s experiences against criminal gangs.

“President Daniel Noboa, if you want to have a security system and a prison system, look for us, not the Southern Command. What the Southern Command is going to do is interventionism and colonialism,” Maduro asserted.

The US leads efforts to support Ecuador

Last week, a delegation of senior officials from the United States Government visited Ecuador to coordinate the help that President Joe Biden’s administration will give to the South American country to confront the “internal armed conflict” that it has declared against organized crime.

The American delegation was led by the presidential advisor for the Americas, Christopher Dodd, and the commander of the United States Southern Command, Laura Richardson.

Daniel Noboa affirmed that the support of the United States to confront this “war” declared on criminal gangs will focus on equipment, training, intelligence, protection of ports and borders and identifying the sources of financing of these ‘narcoterrorist’ groups.” With EFE

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