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Javier Milei: “Argentina will not recognize another fraud” in Venezuela
The president of Argentina, Javier Milei, announced in the early hours of Monday that his country “will not recognize another fraud” in Venezuela and added that the citizens of that country “chose to end the communist dictatorship of Nicolás Maduro.”
“The data announce a crushing victory for the opposition and the world waits for it to recognize the defeat after years of socialism, misery, decadence and death,” the ultraliberal ruler said in a message published on his social network account X.
“Argentina will not recognize another fraud, and hopes that the Armed Forces (of Venezuela) this time will defend democracy and popular will,” the president posted without the official results of the National Electoral Council (CNE) being known.
Also the Argentine chancellor, Diana Mondino, used that social network to ask the president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, to “RECOGNIZE THE DEFEAT (sic).”
“The difference in votes against the Chavista dictatorship is overwhelming. They lost in all states by more than 35%. There is no fraud or violence that hides reality,” posted the Minister of Foreign Affairs, International Trade and Worship.
Mondino and other members of the Milei Executive, such as the Ministers of Defense, Luis Petri, and Security, Patricia Bullrich, went during election day to accompany the Venezuelans residing in Argentina who concentrated around the embassy of that country in Buenos Aires.
Argentina is one of the countries that, according to the Government of Venezuela, would integrate an “intervention operation” of several Latin American countries against their presidential elections.
“Venezuela denounces and warns the world about an intervention operation against the electoral process, our right to free self-determination and the sovereignty of our homeland, on the part of a group of foreign governments and powers,” according to a statement, which also points to Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and the Dominican Republic.
Likewise, the Venezuelan Executive accused former governors Iván Duque and Andrés Pastrana of Colombia, Mauricio Macri, of Argentina; and Óscar Arias, of Costa Rica, as well as US senators Marco Rubio and Rick Scott, whom he called “far-right hitmen politicians specialized in destabilizing governments in Latin America,” of being part of this alleged operation.
According to Nicolás Maduro’s Administration, “they intend to distort what has been expressed” this Sunday “in peace and with a civic spirit” in the Caribbean country, when millions of Venezuelans went out to vote for one of the ten candidates for the Presidency, including the current head of state, who is looking for a second re-election.
Venezuela awaits a statement from the National Electoral Council (CNE) on the results of the elections, in which Maduro seeks his re-election and in which the standard-bearer of the main opposition coalition – the Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD) -, Edmundo González Urrutia, also competed.
Nicolás Maduro said today to his Argentine counterpart, Javier Milei: “Cowardly big, you can’t stand me a round!”
“No to the fascist Nazi of Milei!” proclaimed Maduro, to whom the CNE granted 51.2% of the votes compared to 44.2% of the opponent Edmundo González Urrutia.
While Maduro, re-releaded for a third six-year presidential killing, called the Argentine president a “vendepatrias”, the hundreds of Chavista followers who acclaimed the Bolivarian leader shouted “Milei, garbage, you are the dictatorship!”
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Austrian man arrested in Croatia with deceased woman as passenger in his car
A 65-year-old Austrian citizen was arrested at a border checkpoint in Croatia after attempting to enter the country in his car with a deceased woman sitting as a passenger, police announced on Tuesday.
The man was detained in a routine check in late November in Gunja, a border area separating Bosnia from Croatia, the police told AFP. Suspicious because they saw “no consciousness or movement” from the passenger, Croatian officers called a doctor, who confirmed the death of the 83-year-old woman, also Austrian, according to her identification.
The woman’s relationship to the suspect is unknown. She had died in Bosnia, and the man intended to repatriate her body to Austria to “avoid the formalities related to transporting a corpse,” according to the police. Croatian media reported that the man was her legal guardian.
Once her death was confirmed, a funeral service took charge of the body.
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Colombian nationals arrested for human trafficking and disappearance of migrant boat
Colombian authorities arrested two nationals accused of the illegal trafficking of migrants to the United States and of endangering lives due to the disappearance of a boat with 40 people aboard, U.S. Department of Justice officials reported on Tuesday.
Hernando Manuel de la Cruz Rivera Orjuela, 52, and Luis Enrique Linero Pinto, 40, both Colombian citizens, were arrested on December 13 in Colombia at the request of the United States for their alleged involvement in a “transnational human trafficking operation,” the department said in a statement.
According to the charges, the detainees were transporting migrants to San Andrés Island in the Caribbean, where they would then be taken by boat to Nicaragua. The goal was to reach the United States through Central America and Mexico.
The accused are said to have advised the migrants on how to reach San Andrés Island, where they personally received them, arranged accommodations, and “took them to the boats that transported them to Nicaragua so they could enter the United States illegally,” the statement reads.
“These defendants put several migrants on the boat that disappeared off the coast of Nicaragua in 2023,” said Deputy Attorney General Nicole M. Argentieri, head of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Criminal Division, as cited in the statement.
Both men are “directly and personally responsible for the illicit trafficking of migrants on that vessel,” according to the indictment dated October 23.
International
Homemade landmine explosion in Michoacán kills two soldiers, injures five
Two soldiers were killed and five others were injured by the explosion of homemade landmines planted by a criminal group in a mountainous area of the Mexican state of Michoacán (west), the Secretary of Defense reported on Tuesday.
The attack occurred on Monday morning in the municipality of Cotija, a border area between Michoacán and the state of Jalisco, when the military was conducting a reconnaissance mission after receiving information about an armed camp in the area, explained Secretary General Ricardo Trevilla.
“At that moment, an improvised explosive device detonated. Unfortunately, two soldiers lost their lives, and five others were injured,” the military leader detailed. The affected soldiers were airlifted to hospitals in the region by a military helicopter, while the rest of the team continued with the reconnaissance of the area.
Trevilla stated that before the explosion, the military unit had located the dismembered bodies of three people, and upon continuing the mission, they confirmed the camp was abandoned.
Asked about the individuals responsible for placing the explosives, the general suggested they could be criminals linked to the local group Cárteles Unidos, which operates in Michoacán and uses these tactics in their territorial dispute with the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, one of the most powerful criminal organizations in the country.
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