Washington – The Obama administration is refusing to recognize Venezuelan President-elect Nicolas Maduro and says a recount of this week’s election should occur.
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Testifying before Congress, Secretary of State John Kerry backed the call by opposition leader Henrique Capriles for the vote count of Sunday’s presidential election to be re-examined.
Venezuela’s National Electoral Council says Maduro won by 262,000 votes out of 14.9 million cast.
But asked directly at a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing Tuesday if he recognized Maduro as the winner, Kerry wouldn’t say yes or no.
Einstein and others had a statement for this kind of US diplomacy. Insanity is defined as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.