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The title of this article is sufficiently expressive of its content. And it is sufficiently expressive of the ineffectiveness and ineptness of a so-called International Community that presumes to defend a rules-based order and allows, without any tangible consequence, that the rules-based order has disappeared in Venezuela.
The last elections in Venezuela were won by the opposition. Specifically, Edmundo González Urrutia, the real president of Venezuela. Edmundo was in the European Parliament during the last session of the year 2024 collecting, together with María Corina Machado’s daughter, the phenomenal and well-deserved Sakharov Prize.
He received applause, except from the European left. She received hugs, except from the European left. He got photos and nice words, but he did not manage to get the real, direct, express and full support of the European Union and its 27 Member States. It is true that Italy and Hungary, through their leaders, recognised his victory and expressed support.
A few weeks later, on 9 January, Venezuela once again took to the streets with Maria Corina Machado, demanding democracy, sovereignty, respect for the election results and the overthrow of Nicolás Maduro, the usurper and dictator of the Venezuelan government.
On that day, María Corina Machado denounced the kidnapping of more than thirty people by the forces of Nicolás Maduro’s regime, in the context of the protests against the seizure of power for a third term. Literally, on the social network X said:
‘In its desperation and isolation, the only thing left for the regime to do is to attack brave citizens. In the last few hours more than 30 Venezuelans who were protesting peacefully and organised on 9 January were kidnapped by Maduro’s repressive forces’.
But nothing else happened. For the second time, the Venezuelan people were robbed of results and democracy. Edmundo González received praise from various US governments. Even Biden, in his last throes. But nothing more. More photos, more hugs.
The consolidation of tyranny in Venezuela has many responsible parties, but if you will allow me to focus on three: first, international organisations, such as the United Nations, the Organisation of American States and the European Union. Total failure and clear responsibility. The United Nations has no hesitation in condemning Netanyahu, or Bolsonaro, or Trump for non-existent violations of democracy, but its silence has been thunderous. The same can be said of the Organisation of American States, whose response has been no more than a weak condemnation; and what about the European Union!
Undoubtedly, the fake elites in Brussels are more concerned with preventing Elon Musk from interviewing Alice Weidel, leader of Alternative for Germany, than with defending democracy in Venezuela, a sister nation of Spain, and therefore of all of Europe.
The second political responsible is the Spanish government, and specifically, Pedro Sánchez. He has been a silent collaborator of the Venezuelan plot since he came to power (with a still unresolved corruption scandal such as the entry into national territory of Delcy Rodríguez with a plane loaded with suitcases and unknown contents); the rescue of an airline company, the lobbying work of Zapatero, the former socialist president, and the obvious connections between the Maduro regime and the European extreme left.
For example, the latest example, published by Gaceta de la Iberosfera: Podemos co-founder Juan Carlos Monedero, one of the main advisors to Nicolás Maduro‘s regime, gave a “master conference” on human rights in El Helicoide, the prison run by the Bolivarian Intelligence Service (SEBIN) and considered by international organisations as “one of the largest torture centres on the continent” after the coup d’état of 10 January.
Maduro’s victory is the failure of the international community and the latest proof of Sánchez’s complicity with the world’s worst dictatorships.