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Gabriel Boric criticizes the “new imperialism” and recalls that Maduro “has stolen the elections” in Venezuela

Former Chilean President Gabriel Boric, speaking at the Panamerican Congress in Montevideo, criticized US intervention in Venezuela as illegitimate neocolonialism while also stating that Nicolás Maduro had 'stolen the elections' and his presidency was illegitimate.

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linked by topic terms: elecciones

What would settle it: Opposition figures campaigning or returning without arrest, confirmed independently.

Evidence state: establishedas of Sep 13, 2026not yet linked to a tracked event object in our corpus — no source count yet

Boric spoke at the opening of the Panamerican Congress in Montevideo, Uruguay.

He criticized US intervention in Venezuela as 'absolutely illegitimate' and 'neocolonialism'.

Boric stated that Maduro 'had stolen the elections' and his presidency was illegitimate.

He urged left-wing politicians to see 'the grays' and maintain coherence between discourse and action.

AI-assisted synthesis anchored to a real VeraVadis-analyzed source. Cleared by VeraVadis's automated editorial gates on 2026-08-23 — not reviewed by a human editor. Archive piece: published under our earlier method. It does not carry the per-claim evidence chain — who reported it first and who is echoing whom — that our current pieces carry. The source link and the date are the original ones.