LETTER: SA’s support for Maduro shameful
ANC votes against a UN Security Council resolution and again backs a repressive regime
SA started 2019 by officially assuming its seat as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council for 2019-2020, and it participated in the meeting of the body on the Venezuela crisis on February 26. The draft resolution described embattled Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro’s presidency as the result of an election that was “neither free nor fair” and called for new presidential elections, and for free access to the humanitarian aid that was being blocked on its borders. Of the 15 members of the UN Security Council, SA, with academic considerations that ignored the realities, was one of only three countries that voted against the resolution. This barely received a mention in the SA media. More than 50 countries do not recognise the Maduro election and his government. They support the democratically elected National Assembly president Juan Guaidó as the legitimate temporary president. The National Assembly is the last-remaining democratic institution in Venezuela elected by the maj...
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