US and Musk Lead Coup Attempt in Venezuela: President Maduro

Washington and its allies are using the 2024 presidential elections as a pretext to impose another US puppet.

On Friday, President Nicolas Maduro accused the United States and Elon Musk of supporting the violent actions of the Venezuelan far-right, which seeks to reject the results of the presidential elections held on July 28.

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The Bolivarian leader said that what is happening in his country is a coup orchestrated by the United States, Elon Musk, and other right-wing fascists such as the Argentine President Javier Milei.

“They are attempting to direct a sequel of the `Guaido’ movie,” Maduro said, recalling what happened in 2019 when Washington and its allies tried to support “a regime change” in Venezuela.

Back then, the right-wing opponent Juan Guaido proclaimed himself as “president of Venezuela” without any democratic process to back him. However, he received support from the United States, the European Union, a coalition of conservative Latin American governments gathered in the so-called “Lima Group,” and the Organization of American States (OAS).

On this occasion, Washington and its allies are also using the 2024 presidential elections as a pretext to impose another US “puppet” like Guaido, Maduro explained.

On Friday, the National Electoral Council (CNE) published the second bulletin of official results of the elections. With 96.87 percent of the voting records transmitted, electoral authorities determined that the candidate of the Great Patriotic Pole, Nicolas Maduro, received 6,408,844 votes (51.95 percent) and the far-right candidate Edmundo Gonzalez obtained 5,326,104 votes (43.18 percent).

Despite this, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken claimed that opposition politician Gonzalez won the presidential election, thus supporting the transnational far-right narratives that aim to delegitimize the Venezuelan electoral system to generate discontent and chaos in this South American country.

“The U.S. says that there is another president in Venezuela. The U.S. should stay out of Venezuelan internal affairs,” President Maduro said.

Since the late Commander Hugo Chavez “passed the torch of anti-imperialism to his protégé in 2013, Maduro has faced and neutralized numerous threats and plots hatched against his government,” PressTV recalled.

“Maduro’s leadership has been repeatedly targeted by the right-wing opposition forces. Venezuela’s U.S.-backed opposition planned to overthrow his administration by staging angry mass protests over the collapse of Caracas’ oil-rich economy plunging the nation into economic hardship. However, Maduro has retained his power, succeeding in foiling all the schemes planned against him, and he also survived a drone assassination attempt on his life,” it added.