Venezuela´s Foreign Ministry said in a statement that the country´s strong participatory and protagonist democracy “neither requires nor accepts tutelage” from other nations, let alone indirect democratic systems and with severe restrictions to participation imposed by economic interests and a deep institutionalized racism.

Such a discrimination deprives the exercise of democratic rights of large segments of the Afro-descendant population.

It would be better for the United States to apply timely and fair corrections to its electoral system before seeking to make value judgments on the legitimate actions of democratic institutions in other countries.

The statement stressed that Washington “has neither morals nor the right to express opinions on Venezuela´s political processes “, which has always proved it is sovereign and independent.

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