The United States and ten Latin American countries issued a joint statement today, Friday, in which they refused to acknowledge the Venezuelan Supreme Court’s approval of the re-election of the president, which was widely rejected in the country and abroad, according to Agence France-Presse.

The governments of the United States, Argentina, Costa Rica, Chile, Ecuador, Guatemala, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, the Dominican Republic and Uruguay said that they “categorically reject the announcement of the Supreme Court of Justice of Venezuela indicating that it has completed the supposed verification of the results of the electoral process,” considering that the court does not have “independence.” And neutrality.”

 On Thursday, the Venezuelan Supreme Court, which observers consider loyal to the authorities, ratified the declared victory of President Nicolas Maduro in the presidential elections, the results of which were rejected by the opposition and several foreign countries, citing suspicions of fraud.

Maduro (61 years old) was declared the winner with 52% of the votes by the National Electoral Council, which did not publish the minutes of the polling stations on the grounds that he had been subjected to electronic hacking, which was questioned by the opposition and a number of observers.

The opposition had anticipated this approval by saying that it would consider any decision issued by the Supreme Court in this direction as “null and void,” stressing that the one who won in fact was its candidate, Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia, with a wide margin over the outgoing president.

It was Maduro who submitted a petition to the Supreme Court in early August to confirm his victory in the elections.

In a separate statement Friday, the United States asserted that the Supreme Court's decision "lacks complete credibility, given the overwhelming evidence that Gonzalez received the largest number of votes on July 28."

US State Department spokesman Vedant Patel said in the statement that “the desire of the Venezuelan people must be respected.”

He continued: “Our country has previously expressed its disagreement with the validity of the National Electoral Council’s announcement after preventing opposition representatives from accessing the official census.”

For its part, Spain announced on Friday that it cannot recognize the results of the disputed presidential elections in Venezuela before all polling station records are published.

A Spanish Foreign Ministry spokesman said: “In order to recognize the results of the Venezuelan presidential elections, it is necessary to publish the voting results in a complete and verifiable way, in order to ensure full transparency.”