Seven Latin American countries called on the Venezuelan government to "respect the popular will expressed by the Venezuelan people at the polls," as uncertainty regarding its next actions persist.
Concretely, the foreign ministers of Argentina, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, the Dominican Republican and Uruguay issued a joint statement saying they are "closely following the events in Venezuela" and "consider it indispensable to have guarantees that the electoral result will clearly respect the popular will expressed by the Venezuelan people at the polls."
