The New Dark Age

Atilio Boron, Stella Calloni and Paula Klachko

Presidents Petro and Lula are proposing an unusual “transitional cohabitation government and new free elections” in Venezuela to calm their incomprehensible impatience to know the definitive results of the presidential election.

If both waited two and a half months to know the definitive result of the presidential election in Mexico due to the challenge filed by Xóchitl Gálvez on behalf of the right wing of that country, what is wrong with them now? Why do they not wait for the deadlines established by law, which grant the National Electoral Council (NEC) up to 30 days after the election to announce the definitive results? Perhaps they ignore the fact that these could not be published immediately and in detail due to the massive cyber attack suffered by the transmission platforms of the NEC. Furthermore, due to all the media campaign of the fascist right wing and the provocative proclamation of Gonzalez Urrutia as the winner of the elections, the issue had to be judicialized and now lies before the Electoral Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice which has all the minutes submitted by the NEC and the political organizations and will have to wait for that highest judicial instance to communicate its decision.
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