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AFGE: Statement on the 2024 Venezuela’s Presidential Election

*On July 28, 2024, Nicolás Maduro was elected president of Venezuela for a third term. With 51.20 percent of votes in favor, the National Electoral Council announced Maduro’s victory in a contest in which nearly 59 percent of the electorate participated. Meanwhile, despite their defeat, Edmundo González and María Corina Machado -disqualified from running for elected office for 15 years due to her participation in the “corruption plot orchestrated by the usurper Juan Guaidó”– have dedicated the last 24 hours to reject the election’s result and to instigate a climate of violence in the country. While the U.S. corporate media blames the fed-up Venezuelan people as the origin of the post-election unrest, they say little about the U.S. unilateral sanctions on Venezuela (widely supported by Machado), which have killed more than 30,000 people since their implementation. In the face of the threat of a U.S.-backed coup and the danger of the Guarimbas – shock squads – the Venezuelan people continue to defend their freedom and sovereignty at the ballot box and in the streets.

Caracas, July 29, 2024 

We, the undersigned organizations, associations, and movements, congratulate the people, all authorities, and political parties of Venezuela for holding the presidential elections peacefully and transparently.

Once again, it was confirmed to the world that the Venezuelan electoral system continues to be one of the most secure globally, capable of transmitting the essence of the voters’ decision, with more than a dozen types of audits and where the political forces of that country intervene in their different tendencies, all under detailed rules and regulations, with constitutional rank, which verifies the strength of the Venezuelan democratic institutions.

We congratulate President Nicolás Maduro on this new victory with 51.20% of the votes, which he has won under difficult conditions. He faced all the difficulties resulting from other countries’ intervention in Venezuela’s internal affairs, impacting its economy.

Likewise, we see the results as an opportunity for the international community to rectify its erroneous policy of sanctions and financial blockades against Venezuela, which have caused a crisis three times worse than the Great Depression in the United States.

We hope that this new democratic manifestation of the Venezuelan people will be the starting point for a new way of relating with Venezuela in terms of respect for the political and sovereign decisions of the Venezuelan people. Finally, we ask respect for the Venezuelan people who have not tired of sending us messages of political and economic independence. We call on the international community to accept once and for all this reality in Venezuela.

Peace has won, sovereignty has won, long live the people of Venezuela.

In solidarity,

  • Alliance for Global Justice AFGJ, EE. UU.
  • Asociación Americana de Juristas. Red continental.
  • Freedom Road Socialist Organization, Tom Burke, EE. UU.
  • The Task Force on the Americas, EE. UU.
  • Haïti Liberté, Berthony Dupont Kim Ives, EE. UU.
  • Venezuela Solidarity Network, EE. UU
  • National Jericho Movement, EE.UU.
  • All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (GC), EE. UU.
  • Philippines-Bolivarian Venezuela Friendship Association, Sarah Raymundo, EE. UU.
  • New York Peace Council, Immanuel Ness, EE. UU.
  • The ProLibertad Freedom Campaign, Benjamin Ramos, EE. UU.
  • Venezuela Solidarity Campaign, Dr. Francisco Domínguez, Reino Unido.
  • Church of Santa Cruz-Holyrood, Radhames Morales Ministry of Solidarity with the Peoples, EE. UU.
  • United National Antiwar Coalition, EE. UU.
  • Council on Hemispheric Affairs COHA, EE. UU.
  • Friends of Latin America, Leslie Salgado, EE. UU.
  • Workers World Party, EE. UU.
  • International Action Center, EE. UU.
  • BAYAN-Philippines New Patriotic Alliance, Teodoro Casiño, EE. UU.
  • Barbados Cuba Friendship Association, David Denny, EE. UU.
  • Barbados Industrial and General Workers Union, EE. UU.
  • Coordinadora Americana por los Derechos de los Pueblos y Víctimas de la Persecución Política.
  • Cooperation Jackson. Kali Akuno, EE. UU.
  • B.L.M – OKC, EE. UU.
  • Chicago ALBA Solidarity, Stansfield Smith, EE. UU. .
  • Minnesota Anti-War Committee, EE. UU.
  • Asociación de trabajadores del campo ATC, Nicaragua.
  • Troika Kollective, EE. UU.
  • Centro Cultural Político Deportivo El Maestro BRONX, EE. UU.
  • Fuerza de la Revolución New York City, EE. UU.
  • Asociación Americana de Juristas (AAJ) NYC, EE. UU.
  • NYC Nurses Union, Judy Sheridan Gonzalez, EE. UU.
  • Bangladesh Tri Continental Solidarity Campaign For Venezuelam, Dr. Jahangir Khan, EE. UU.
  • Asociación Mexicana de Abogados del Pueblo – Guerrero, México.
  • Organización Campesina de la Sierra del Sur, México.
  • Comité San Lucas Xochimancas, México.
  • Brújula Metropolitana, México.
  • Colectivo Regina Martínez, de Xalapa Veracruz, México.
  • Asociación de Familiares de Detenidos Desaparecidos y Víctimas de Violaciones a los Derechos  Humanos en México (AFADEM FEDEFAM), México.
  • Red Universitaria de Monitores de Derechos Humanos (RUMODH), México.
  • Asociación de Derechos Humanos del Estado de México (ADHEM), México.
  • Liga Mexicana por la Defensa de los Derechos Humanos, A.C. Filial Oaxaca (LIMEDDH-Oax), México.
  • Consejo Federal Ejecutivo Nacional e Internacional del Frente Mexicano Pro Derechos Humanos, A.C.  (FMPDH), México.
  • Fundación Diego Lucero, A.C. (FDL), México.
  • Mujeres Guerrerenses por la Democracia, A.C. (MGD), México.
  • Foro Permanente de Mujeres Iztacalco, A.C. (FPM-I), México.
  • Asamblea Vecinal Nos Queremos Vivas Neza (AVNQVN), México.
  • Centro de Estudios para los Derechos Humanos y la Justicia Ambiental “YURENI”, A.C. (CEPDHJA),  México.
  • Actuar Familiares contra la Tortura, (AFT), México.
  • Comunidad Raíz Zubia, A.C. (CRZ), México.
  • Comité de Familiares de Personas Desaparecidas en México Alzando Voces (COFADDEM), México.
  • Despertares Derechos Humanos A C, México.
  • Alerta Temprana Red (at-r), México.
  • Mexicanos Unidos, México.
  • Comité Veracruzano de solidaridad con Venezuela, México.
  • Urbana Tv Argentina, Milcíades Peña, Argentina.
  • Partido Intransigente, Enrique Gustavo Cardesa, Argentina.
  • Club argentino de periodistas amigos de Cuba, Argentina.
  • Observatorio de Derechos Humanos de los Pueblos: