State Department Official Says The US Is 'Running Out Of Patience' With Venezuela After Election

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At a State Department press briefing on Wednesday, Principal Deputy Spokesperson Vedant Patel was asked about the election in Venezuela.

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00:00Sure.

00:01Go ahead.

00:02The Colombian president is now calling on Maduro to release detailed vote counts.

00:07Do you believe that that kind of increased pressure is going to result in anything substantive,

00:11or do you think there's anything more the U.S. can do to reduce that pressure?

00:15So, look, over – since Monday, you have continued to see more and more countries echo

00:19the same call from the United States that we would like to see a public publishment

00:26of the tabulation data.

00:30The international community, the United States included, is running out of patience on waiting

00:35for Venezuelan electoral authorities to come clean and release a full, detailed data on

00:42this election so that everyone can see the results.

00:45A number of independent observers earlier have released a report and stated that Venezuela's

00:532024 presidential election did not meet international standards of electoral integrity and cannot

00:59be considered democratic.

01:01So my understanding is that the OAS is going to hold a meeting later today to address some

01:07of this.

01:08I'm not going to get ahead of that meeting, but I will just reiterate what I have said

01:14almost on a consistent basis this week, is that the international community is running

01:19out of patience.

01:20We are waiting, and there is a clear action that the Venezuelan Electoral Commission can

01:24take, and that is a full, detailed publication of this election data.

01:31Doc, go ahead.

State Department Official Says The US Is 'Running Out Of Patience' With Venezuela After Election

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