Venezuela. A wave of protests after miracles over the urn

angora24.pl 1 year ago

However, everything indicates that there have been large-scale electoral forgerys. many protests broke out in Caracas and another cities. The shops are closed, buses are stopped, and safety forces distract the demonstrators with teardrop gas and rubber bullets. By 1 August, 16 people died in the demonstrations, and over a 1000 were arrested. In the city of Upata, 19-year-old protesters were killed Luis Eduardo Roberto. The father of a young man tells that his boy was shot by bandits on motorcycles who support the Maduro regime.

Leader of the opposition María Corina Machado said July 31, Edmundo González UrrutiaAs many as 73.2% of the votes were obtained by the candidate of the united opponents of Maduro, anti-government forces "can only negociate a peaceful takeover of power". Even the erstwhile allies of the socialist leader, the left-wing presidents of Brazil and Colombia, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Gustavo Petro, call on the authorities in Caracas to disclose full electoral documentation. The government hypocritically assured that it could not do so for the time being, as the electronic electoral strategy was blocked by hackers from North Macedonia. erstwhile Vice president of Colombia Francisco Santos announced on 31 July that he had obtained confidential information that in Cuba, utilizing China, Venezuelan ballot cards had been prepared to confirm Maduro's victory. On July 30 and 31, 4 mysterious planes from Havana landed at Caracas Airport and they may have brought in manipulated ballot cards.

Venezuela has the richest oil deposits in the world. Unfortunately, the socialists who have ruled this country for 25 years have led the economy to collapse. 8 out of 10 people live in poorness and inflation reaches 130,000 percent. Since 2014, 7,8 million citizens have fled their homeland from widespread poverty. It is the largest emigration in modern South American history. In 2019, many countries considered the rightful leader Venezuela's then opposition leader Juan Guaidó, who surely won the most electoral votes. Washington imposed severe sanctions on the Venezuelan oil and financial sector, but Maduro survived thanks to the support of China, Russia, Cuba and Iran. It was these anti-Western countries that congratulated him last week for "winning elections".

Many commentators say that Nicolás Maduro wants to wait out the protests and will not quit power despite global pressure. He hopes to aid his generals, whom he has granted lucrative jobs in the oil industry.

Venezuelan political scientist Daniel Lansberg-Rodriguez He said: “Probably Maduro believes that if he withdraws, he will be faced with something between a long prison conviction in The Hague and hanging on a piano string at Plaza Bolívar, Caracas. So all he has to do is shut up in a lie."

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