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Venezuela’s electoral body calls the UN report on the presidential elections a “pamphlet”

The National Electoral Council (CNE) of Venezuela lamed this Wednesday a “pamphletary” the provisional report prepared by the panel of experts of the United Nations (UN), according to which the presidential elections of July 28 lacked the “basic measures of transparency and integrity that are essential to hold credible elections.”
In a statement, the CNE recalled that, as agreed with the UN, this document would have internal purposes, so its public disclosure violates the agreement and “demoverses the perverse political intentionality of such dissemination, composed of fallacious and disfigured arguments.”
“The content of this ‘report’ is a pamphlet document and its ‘expertise’ is absolutely crumbled in view of the poor and easily deniable arguments that they use to try to delegitimize the impeccable and transparent electoral process carried out on July 28,” says the election body.
In addition to repeatedly denying the document, the CNE insisted that since July 28 a “cyberterrorist attack” was carried out that continues and before which “the contingency protocols” were applied that allowed “to have a transmission of 80% of the minutes, with an irreversible result in favor” of President Nicolás Maduro.
In view of the lack of results disaggregated by voting center, which contradicts the established schedule, the CNE indicated that “the detailed disclosure could not be made” “for continuous attacks on the dissemination platforms, which are exposed to the internet,” in allusion to the institution’s website, which has been down for 17 days.
In the opinion of the CNE – whose majority of authorities are alike Chavismo – the UN experts “shamelessly try to endorse the scam” of the majority opposition, which published “83.5%” of the electoral records on a website to support their complaint of fraud and ensure that their candidate, Edmundo González Urrutia, won the elections by a large margin.
The entity stressed that the UN group “was not authorized to carry out audits on alleged records that do not have any level of legality, since they were not provided by the electoral body,” so “the ‘experts’ incur an act of illegality, by giving as valid” the ballots disclosed by anti-chavismo.
“With their political agenda against the Venezuelan people, these characters question the credibility and reliability of the UN, while mocking the trust placed in them by the Member States,” the letter concludes.
In addition to this panel, the Carter Center – which was also invited by the CNE as a supervisor of the presidential elections – considered that the elections cannot be considered democratic for violating the established standards.
International
Trump urges Putin to reach peace deal

On Monday, U.S. President Donald Trump reiterated his desire for Russian President Vladimir Putin to “reach a deal” to end the war in Ukraine, while also reaffirming his willingness to impose sanctions on Russia.
“I want to see him reach an agreement to prevent Russian, Ukrainian, and other people from dying,” Trump stated during a press conference in the Oval Office at the White House.
“I think he will. I don’t want to have to impose secondary tariffs on Russian oil,” the Republican leader added, recalling that he had already taken similar measures against Venezuela by sanctioning buyers of the South American country’s crude oil.
Trump also reiterated his frustration over Ukraine’s resistance to an agreement that would allow the United States to exploit natural resources in the country—a condition he set in negotiations to end the war.
International
Deportation flight lands in Venezuela; government denies criminal gang links

A flight carrying 175 Venezuelan migrants deported from the United States arrived in Caracas on Sunday. This marks the third group to return since repatriation flights resumed a week ago, and among them is an alleged member of a criminal organization, according to Venezuelan authorities.
Unlike previous flights operated by the Venezuelan state airline Conviasa, this time, an aircraft from the U.S. airline Eastern landed at Maiquetía Airport, on the outskirts of Caracas, shortly after 2:00 p.m. with the deportees.
Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello, who welcomed the returnees at the airport, stated that the 175 repatriated individuals were coming back “after being subjected, like all Venezuelans, to persecution” and dismissed claims that they belonged to the criminal organization El Tren de Aragua.
However, Cabello confirmed that “for the first time in these flights we have been carrying out, someone of significance wanted by Venezuelan justice has arrived, and he is not from El Tren de Aragua.” Instead, he belongs to a gang operating in the state of Trujillo. The minister did not disclose the individual’s identity or provide details on where he would be taken.
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Son of journalist José Rubén Zamora condemns father’s return to prison as “illegal”

The son of renowned journalist José Rubén Zamora Marroquín, José Carlos Zamora, has denounced as “illegal” the court order that sent his father back to a Guatemalan prison on March 3, after already spending 819 days behind barsover a highly irregular money laundering case.
“My father’s return to prison was based on an arbitrary and illegal ruling. It is also alarming that the judge who had granted him house arrest received threats,” José Carlos Zamora told EFE in an interview on Saturday.
The 67-year-old journalist was sent back to prison inside the Mariscal Zavala military barracks on March 3, when Judge Erick García upheld a Court of Appeals ruling that overturned the house arrest granted to him in October. Zamora had already spent 819 days in prison over an alleged money laundering case.
His son condemned the situation as “unacceptable”, stating that the judge handling the case “cannot do his job in accordance with the law due to threats against his life.”
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