; and Whereas, on June 5, 2018, the General Assembly of the OAS passed a resolution on Venezuela, with the support of 19 countries, reaffirming the obligation of the governments [of the Americas] to promote and defend [democracy] and declaring that the national elections that occurred on May 20, 2018, were illegitimate for not complying with international standards, for not having met the participation of all Venezuelan political actors, and for being carried out without the necessary guarantees for a free, fair, transparent and democratic process : Now, therefore, be it