The Friends in Solidarity with the Bolivarian Revolution stated in a press release that after the July 28 historic presidential elections, which “consecrated Nicolas Maduro’s victory for a third term, a destabilizing operation of imperialism has escalated.”

The onslaught, they denounced, “was planned and carried out before, during, and after the elections,” to which more than 21.3 million Venezuelans were called.

They stated that the acts of violence and vandalism seen on television and social media show that the accusations of fraud against the Maduro Government and the National Electoral Council (CNE) “are only the surface of a vast destabilization plan.”

They affirmed that it ultimately aimed at justifying “a foreign military intervention.”

They called on all regional forces and the international community to “denounce, repudiate, and reject strongly the coup attempts against the sister Bolivarian Republic.”

Signing the statement were Argentina’s Nobel Peace prizewinner Adolfo Perez Esquivel; former presidents Evo Morales (Bolivia) and Manuel Zelaya (Honduras), Cuba’s Casa de las America President Abel Prieto and former Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Ricardo Patiño.

The eight-page document was also signed by the Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Art and Industry (ICAIC)’s President Alexis Triana, Ecuadorian National Assembly’s former President Gabriela Rivadaneira, and Mexican Federal Deputy Yeidckol Polevnsky.

Cuban National Assembly Lawmaker Mariela Castro, Bolivian Senate’s former President Adriana Salvatierra, Argentine sociologist and writer Atilio Boron, and Ambassador for Palestinian Refugees, Aleida Guevara (Cuba) are also included in the list.

The text was also accompanied by MEP Manu Pineda; Al Mayadeen director for Latin America Wafica Ibrahim, a Lebanese journalist; and the Heroes of the Republic of Cuba Antonio Guerrero, Gerardo Hernandez, Ramon Labañino, and Rene Gonzalez, among others.

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