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Nicolas Maduro fraudulently won yesterday’s presidential elections, I repeat, NICOLAS MADURO and his allies have committed fraud against VENEZUELA.
EDMUNDO GONZÁLEZ URRUTIA WON THE 2024 VENEZUELA PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS BY MORE THAT 70% OF THE VOTES, AND ALSO WON IN EVERY VOTING CENTER IN THE WHOLE COUNTRY. BUT THE DICTATORSHIP OF NICOLAS MADURO REFUSES TO BE TRANSPARENT AND STOLE THE ELECTIONS.
There’s just been a day since this was announced and there’s already tons of harmed and killed citizens, OUR PEOPLE IS GETTING KILLED FOR SPEAKING UP, AND THIS HAS ALWAYS BEEN LIKE THAT.
This is a dictatorship, one that has took the life’s of millions of Venezuelans in the past 25 years.
WE ARE SCARED, i am scared, I want to get out of my house and protest for a better future, for the freedom of my people and for peace to finally win in Venezuela, but I’m scared of getting killed for fighting for my rights. Venezuela right now is dangerous, even staying in your own house is dangerous.
I’m deeply proud of all of those who are on the streets right now, thank you so much for being so brave, and for fighting for this country.
We want to finally have a break, we’ve been suffering for way too long because of this government, this is nothing like what the foreigners think is going on, this is not about the the lack of food, this about that WAY more that half of the country can’t even afford to buy decent groceries with their monthly income (the minimum wage is 3.5$ PER MONTH, and whatever you hear out there where they say that is 800bs is a LIE)
This is not about the inflation, this is about that we have to use a foreign currency, because ours is WORTHLESS.
We are not the country with the biggest oil reserves on the world, the gas on the gas stations in Venezuela is from IRAN, our oil reserves are being STOLEN by the government.
Just by natural resources, we are supposed to be one the countries with the best economies in the world, but we have one of the WORST, because the government and those who are connected to them STEAL EVERYTHING.
We don’t wanna live this way anymore, I don’t wanna say goodbye to another family member, I don’t wanna say goodbye to another of my friends, I want them to stay, to come back, I want to celebrate Christmas with a table full of my loved ones, I want them to be part of my life, I want to be able to go out with my friends in car where there’s no empty spaces, I want to be free.
Please, to whoever is reading this, wherever your Venezuelan or not, please share this and everything related to what’s going on right now, we want this to have visibility, for the whole world to know what’s going on.
Here’s so important information that might help you to understand things a bit better.
And if you wanna know what’s going on the streets and the ATROCITIES this government is doing to Venezuelans, you can check this Twitter/X account. https://x.com/uhn_plus?s=21&t=811ZdyqLhYbY4z4zGa7Qlw
I'm tired.
Interpretation: ''They [the Chavista Government] told Public Employees that Edmundo [Opposition Leader who works with María Corina Machado] was going to fire them.
But who is firing their personnel for having a picture [against the Government*] in their WhatsApp Status, an Instagram History [*], or for protesting by slamming pots together in their homes (Cacerolazo: it's a non-violent way to show your discontent). I've received many DMs with the same complain."
Interpretation: "EVERY SINGLE ONE of the pensioned elderly in my neighborhood were taken out of the food box program. EVERY SINGLE ONE.
The bloodbath promised by @NicolasMaduro includes the stomach of the elderly."
(...) dirigentes opositores). Han despedido personal administrativo, gerencial, pilotos y aeromozas. En el INAC: lista negra armada por el gerente general de Seguridad Aeronáutica. Día después de las elecciones todos los empleados tuvieron que publicar fotos apoyando a Maduro, quien no lo hizo fue amenazado. Obligados empleados a ir a trabajar durante manifestaciones opositoras. A los empleados los han obligado a borrar WhatsApp y migrar a WeChat.
Interpretation: ''Public Employees from CONVIASA (Venezuelan Airline) and the INAC (Instituto Nacional de Aeronáutica Civil, aka, the National Institute of Civil Aviation) report:
More than 190 wrongful dismissals by CONVIASA, 5 wrongful dismissals by INAC.
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They're firing employees for expressing the slightless bit of approval towards the opposition (as in leaving a like in an Instagram Page of an Opposition leader).
They've fired management and administrative personnel, pilots and flight attendants.
In the INAC: a black list was created by the CEO. The day after the elections, all employees were forced to publish pictures where they showed their support for Maduro, those who refused were threatened.
They forced their employees to go to work the days when opposition demonstrations were taking place.
The employees have been forced to delete WhatsApp and download and use WeChat.''
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And many more. There have been reports of wrongful dismissals by DAKA, Metro de Caracas, SENIAT, among others.
Interpretation: ''The Regime's paramilitary organization (i. e. Colectivos) is marking with an X the houses of those who have protested by banging pots together in their homes (Cacerolazo: it's a non-violent way to show your discontent) since July 29, 2024.
Now is it a crime to hit a pan? What kind of fuckery is this''
Edni López, Human Rights activist, was conditionally released on August 9, 2024. She cannot travel out of the country and must appear in court once a month. Is this justice? Is this fair?
Now, let's hope for the release of a thousand (there's more than that) other Venezuelans who were unlawfully imprisoned these past few days.
Personal thoughts: Well, guess who's not taking a plane anywhere until things calm down because her face was captured in HD by a Government-owned drone? This girl, maybe.
Interpretation: ''A person I know, who was travelling from Venezuela to Chile today, told me that they delayed their flight for 3 hours while officers searched photo by photo (I think they meant, person by person) those who had been in the protests/demonstrations. (Those who had been in the protests) were told to get off the plane and then they annulled their passports.
You can't even leave the country.
We're like hostages.''
Interpretation: ''Abductions and unlawful detainments continue to take place in Venezuela. According to a source, this took place yesterday, August 9, 2024 in Maracay, Aragua.''
In the video, a senior citizen, identified as Orlando by the person who was recording the video, was abducted by unidentified, uniformed ''members'' of the DIP (División de Investigaciones Penales).
Their vehicle was also unidentified.
Last week started in Venezuela with a moment that combined Berlin Wall spontaneity and a French Revolutionary spirit. Very late in the evening of Sunday, July 28, the government refused to recognize the opposition’s victory in that day’s election and declared incumbent President Nicolás Maduro the winner. The next day, protests broke out nearly everywhere: A think tank counted more than 200. In Coro, a small coastal city, a protester climbed up a statue of Hugo Chávez, Maduro’s late predecessor and mentor, and hammered his signature military beret as others cheered. When he got down, the crowd tied ropes around the statue and celebrated as it collapsed. What they wanted, in the words of a Venezuelan commentator, was to see Chávez’s head “dragged through the dirt.” Also last Monday, a man waving a Venezuelan flag rode a horse onto the highway outside the city of Maracay. He was leading a caravan of motorists and screaming “Venezuela libre.” In Punto Fijo, in the country’s west, a police officer burst into tears, took off her uniform, and joined the protesters she’d been assigned to intimidate. Some of her colleagues on the scene followed suit. Elsewhere in the country, the police did follow orders: Nearly 750 anti-government demonstrators were arrested that day. Six were killed.
Not long ago, Venezuela’s greatest lover of grand, revolutionary gestures was Chávez himself. Chávez was the one who embraced the image of a freedom lover on a horse—the independence hero Simón Bolívar, whose name Chávez appended to everything he wished to assert control over: the Bolivarian national bank, the Bolivarian army, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. Chávez delighted in toppling the monuments of the ruling class, although the ruling class he rebelled against was not the type to build statues. Instead, he expropriated jewelry stores and shopping malls in the name of socialist revolution. Chávez understood the power of symbols. He held onto the presidency not just because the oil boom of the 2000s allowed him to lavish subsidies on the poor, but also because he was an exceptionally gifted populist. That doesn’t mean Chávez had qualms about using force. He closed opposition TV channels, imprisoned less-than-subservient judges, and played dictator as needed. But he preferred to win elections, because he could. In 2012, the year before his death, he spent more on his reelection campaign and short-lived social programs than any other president in Venezuela’s history—buying, with public money, the popular support that would ensure the continuity of his legacy through his heir, Maduro.
More than a decade later, a humanitarian crisis has turned a quarter of Venezuela’s population into emigrants, and Maduro seems to have decided that popular support is a luxury he can do without. To stay in power, he must have concluded some time ahead of the election, repression would have to suffice. His charisma certainly wasn’t going to win him the votes he needed. And with the country’s oil industry in decrepit shape, Maduro could hardly have afforded the grandiose presidential campaigns of his predecessor, or the generous food baskets doled out only during election years. He went for the cheaper option: scaring activists, opposition leaders, and everyday people into voting a certain way by showing them that those who don’t can wind up in prison. Distant observers of Venezuelan politics might have thought it obvious that Maduro was never going to recognize the election results. But some Venezuelan academics and political leaders I interviewed before the vote were convinced, or maybe hopeful, that Maduro would acquiesce if the opposition victory was overwhelming. Even dictatorships need some level of popular support, they argued. Perhaps military leaders would see the results and calculate that Maduro’s collapse was imminent. Perhaps they would be willing to negotiate a deal with the opposition, leaving the regime exposed. The opposition victory was overwhelming. In the hours after the election, María Corina Machado, the leader of the opposition, coordinated more than 600,000 volunteer poll watchers in an effort to obtain the vote tallies from poll centers throughout the country. By last Monday afternoon—after the crowd had toppled the Chávez statue and the man on horseback waved Venezuela’s flag—Machado confirmed what everyone knew. In a press conference, she announced that, having obtained the tallies from 80 percent of the polling stations, she could say with certainty that opposition presidential candidate Edmundo González—the man who substituted for Machado on the ticket when Maduro forbade her from running—had won by a landslide, with 67 percent of the vote. González had won in every single state, despite the fact that only a few months earlier no one knew his name.
The opposition was exhilarated; Monday felt like the sprouting of a revolution. But Maduro, undaunted, swiftly cracked down. Almost immediately, the internet began failing more than usual. By the Thursday after election day, the government had suspended the most common flights out of the country. Low-profile protesters began getting arrested in what government officials informally called Operation Knock-Knock. (“It’s called knock-knock because that’s the bang on the door you get in the early hours of the morning,” an activist told Reuters.) The organization Foro Penal has verified more than 1,200 people have been arrested in protests since the election, including about 100 teenagers. Maduro announced that two new maximum-security prisons would be built in order to accommodate “the gangs engaged in the criminal attacks of these past few days”—meaning the protesters. Maduro has few friends left in the region. The only country in South America to recognize his electoral victory was Bolivia. Argentina, Ecuador, Peru, Panama, and the United States have all recognized Edmundo González as president-elect. Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia are awkwardly situated, because they’re governed by fellow left-wing leaders, but even they have asked Maduro to supply the detailed, tabulated results of the election, which Maduro hasn’t done. Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva, a longtime buddy of Chávez’s, expressed outrage at Maduro’s threats of a “bloodbath” to those challenging him but has so far stopped short of using words like “fraud.” Nothing further can be asked of the opposition leadership; Machado and González have pulled off something extraordinary. On the campaign trail, they faced every imaginable difficulty: Their staffers were thrown in jail; state-controlled media refused them airtime; gasoline stations and hotels were closed for supplying services to them. Yet the pair rallied crowds in the most remote corners of the country, places only Chávez had previously galvanized. When Maduro banned Machado from running for president, the opposition could have been derailed by intrigue and succession battles; instead it coalesced behind González, a career diplomat who comes across not as a power-hungry schemer but as someone happy to help. In the past 25 years, the opposition has used three different tactics to challenge Chávez and Maduro: elections, protests, and international support. Never before have all three strategies gathered so much momentum, or come together so effectively all at the same time. Just about a week ago, when so many preconditions seemed to be finally aligning to bring the dictatorship to its end, the moment seemed full of hope. But if, with all of that serendipity, the Venezuelan opposition does not triumph, then maybe Maduro will be proved right that dictatorship can be sustained indefinitely with repression alone.
No sources because I'm typing this on my phone from where I'm sitting on the bathroom floor, but tldr there are three major things that need to happen for Maduro to step down:
The election results are so overwhelmingly in favor of the opposition that Maduro can't smudge the numbers, and it's obvious to the world that the election was unfair. This is done! Venezuelans came out in force to vote, and Edmundo may have won as much as 70% of the vote! The Venezuelans have given Maduro a mandate that is impossible to deny.
The opposition and neighboring countries give Maduro a path out with amnesty. This one is the peak of injustice, but it's extremely unlikely Maduro will step down if he knows he'll be immediately arrested and sent to the Hague. This is likely why Brazil, Colombia, and the US have had such tepid, slow reactions so far- they're going to want to plan together at OAS how negotiations will happen before acting too rashly.
The military has to abandon Maduro. In all countries, the military is the ultimate arbitrator of elections. Venezuela's military has stood by Maduro so far, but that doesn't necessarily mean they'll continue to back him if it becomes clear that he can't continue to pay them the money they're used to. In addition, though it's less likely, even if the generals back Maduro, the rank-and-file troops may not- a lot of them are sick of Maduro as well, and they may choose to essentially go on strike.
The Venezuelan people have done their part and are still doing it. Now everyone else just needs to support them.
I accidentally lost the post that contained this article - but please read if you're outside of Venezuela and want to engage with us in good faith.
Partido Comunista de Venezuela (Venezuelan Communist Party)
PCV: Defending the constitution and the rule of law is not facism. The Venezuelan Communist Party denounced on Tuesday that the leadership of the PSUV (Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela - Venezuelan United Socialist Party) Government is carrying out "a policy of terror in the popular sectors of the country" that is fueled "with psychological and propaganda operations" that aim "not only to neutralize popular protests but to impose a dangerous matrix of opinion in which defending the sovereignty of the people is the same as being fascist."
Full statement here: (X)
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yes, even venezuelan communists want maduro out and believe he is illegitimately claiming power
in the week following the elections in venezuela the government has:
Announced his (Maduro's) win by a margin of 600k votes when there were still supposed to be over 2M votes to count
Refused to give the detailed election data as our constitution indicates he should, in the estimated time (72H)
Arrested 2,000 people (Including dozens of minors, the youngest known being a 13 years old girl) AND bragged about doing so, claiming they would arrest thousands more
Killed about 19 people (including Isaias Fuenmayor, a 15 years old who was SHOT IN THE NECK)
Created an online system for their supporters to report their neighbors to the police
Installed police checkpoints where they take your phone and check your social media activity
Declared that they will build 2 maximum security prisons in 15 days to "re-educate protestors", and "putting them to work on the streets for free". This is from the same government that claims to not have money due to the sanctions to better the infrastructure of public services all over the country. It's also Ironic, for a president who claimed chavistas were "the jews of the 21st century".
Ordered the capture of main opposition leaders
Cut off diplomatic relations with 9 Latin American countries who demanded democracy
Detained and deported multiple news-workers from outside of the country, who confirmed in the detention cells with them and other adults there were multiple minors
Fired government employees suspected of voting for the opposition
Annulled the passports of suspected Venezuelan freedom activists
And you still have people all over the global north claiming it's "just a socialist government being attacked by the far right"
I really hope yall are aware of what you're supporting
Maduro blocked twitter in Venezuela, saying it’s violating laws by letting people share information.
they're trying to censor us while taking over 2000 kidnapped people to torture chambers, over a hundred minors too. The government hasn't build a hospital in the past decade, yet he ordered to build two new prisons equipped for torture btw.
For the people (if you can call them that) that STILL think Maduro is good just cuz he said "free palestine" or because he's against the US gov let me give a few things to consider gov funded HOSPITALS here don't have basic medical equipment, if you need treatment, YOU ARE REQUIRED TO BRING EVERYTHING from syringes. gauze, pillows,bed sheets, sutures everything. and these are hospitals that mostly treat people with lower income with no insurance. meanwhile the gov officials and all the enchufados who suck the country dry live in multi million dollar mansions or live in foreign countries in luxury. minimum wage is 130$ or even less monthly and the gov keeps pushing $ as a currency to the point most gov offices will try to make you pay in dollars instead on OUR national currency. If you want to buy food, pay bills, buy meds,etc those are all based on how the $ is at the time. you cry about "BUT US WANTS YOUR OIL!" China has inverted $50.000MILLIONS in exchange for petrol guess where all those MILLIONS are now? if you said to help the country you'll be wrong they are in the pockets of Maduro and the rest of them, the rest of the country sees a tiny fraction of it put into repairs if you can call those repairs OR the most common one money laundry in the form of HUGE building or stores. theres a thing called "contribuyentes especiales" it basically means a store, company, etc needs to pay a special kind of taxes to the Gov, those huge stores don't pay those taxes BUT a store thats basically closed down except for 3 workers and a single truck, that store is required to pay those taxes. the list goes on and on. Oh btw we have OIL shortages on top of that. theres 2 types of gas stations ONE thats international which cost more depending on international $ prices and the other type is the subsidiada or the one based on our currency, that one is payed USING YOUR FINGER PRINTS and people need to get up as early as 4AM to get in line to get it in some places and those lines can be MILES long and people run the risk of getting to the station and there be no gas left in it. SO TELL US AGAIN HOW "GOOD" A FUCKING DICTATOR IS
YET ANOTHER VENEZUELA POST
THIS ONE'S HILARIOUS
Seriously guys, they're not even trying. A National Assembly (that's what we call congress) deputy (that's what we call congresspeople) and third party candidate for Last Sunday's election, Jose Brito went on Venezuelan news network Globovision (which was bought out by government cronies in 2013, but that's another story) to defend the electoral results posted by the government. You can see the clip here:
Community note on twitter says everything but why would you willingly go to twitter when a sexy Canadian/Venezuelan man can explain this to you instead? Ok so what happened is that he got one of those paper receipts the voting machines print and he alleged that his was the real one and it contradicted one of the opposition's.
I've been saying for days that the only thing the government needs to do in order to cast doubt about the opposition's entire evidence base is literally to show receipts. Literally just one, which could be shown to contradict any of the opposition's posted receipts and could be authenticated. There's a series of authentication tools that are printed on each receipt which essentially make these difficult to fake, not to mention there would be a long paper trail backing the authenticity of one set next to the others. The hash-code at the top is based on some information in a server we don't currently have access to. From what I understand the hash is meant to show that the results on the receipt match the results in the tabulation servers. If they altered the results on the receipt they would have to alter results in the servers as well to correct that discrepancy and that would print a different hash code. We don't have access to the tabulation server cause it's controlled by the government and they refuse to show shit (and they are claiming the digital count is compromised anyway). Thankfully there's other paper trails that can be compared to the receipts the opposition are showing to verify their authenticity as well as copies and photos that were taken of them on the day of the election and videos of poll watchers reading out the receipts as well. And of course there's direct testimony from the Poll Watchers themselves.
None of that third party fancy shmancy verification and long process needs to be done in order to disprove that this receipt is fake, however. The receipts also have a QR code which shows the ID of the voting machine which printed it as well as the vote count for that voting center. It is formatted as [voting_machine_ID]![party1_votes],[party2_votes],[party3_votes]... and so on. Must be noted that multiple parties can nominate the same candidate and the votes for each party that nominates a candidate are added together in the final count.
The opposition's receipt that corresponds to the one showed by Jose Brito on TV was this one.
If you scan the QR Code, you will see that the code matches the results on the receipt posted by the opposition originally and does not at all match his own. This shows that the receipt he's holding was altered digitally, in quite a lazy fashion as well. Falsifying a QR Code isn't very hard it would've looked fairly authentic had he done that and pasted it on the thing while he was photoshopping this.
So to summarize
All they had to do was show exactly one receipt that could be authenticated or hell even reasonably believed to be authentic on first glance in order to cast doubt on their integrity.
After almost a week and a half of showing no copies of the receipts they should have in their possession one of them decides to show one and it turns out to be FAKE.
If the government's results hadn't been suspect until now they definitely are now. And all because they were too lazy to fake a QR Code with Photoshop. This is so funny dude. The politics fandom is laughing so hard.
in the wave of detantions happening in venezuela, one of the latest we have been informed off is the detainment of Yendri Velásquez
Yendri is one of Venezuela's MOST RENOWNED LGBTQ+ activists -he's the director of the Observatorio Venezolano de Violencia LGBTIQ+ (The Venezuelan Obstervatory of LGBTIQ+ Violence"), and he was actually in his way to an interracial comitee by the UN. He was in the Maiquetía airport, and when they checked his passport they told him it had been made null
he informed his family then that he was being approached by two individuals at 3PM local time, and that's the last they have known of him
once again: Yendri was not doing anything but being on his way to an international event by the UN. and still he was taken away by the security at the airport and no one knows where he is.
when we say that supporting Maduro is supporting tirany and hate THIS is what we mean
THERE'S NO LQBT RIGHTS IN VENEZUELA
THERE'S NO PROTECTED RIGHT TO ABORTION IN VENEZUELA
THERE'S NO PROTECTION TO NATIVE AMERICANS IN VENEZUELA
THERE'S NO FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION IN VENEZUELA: PEOPLE ARE BEING PUT IN JAIL FOR SOCIAL MEDIA POSTS SHOWING THEIR DISAGREEMENT WITH THE GOVERNMENT
MADURO SAID "FREE PALESTINE" ONCE, WHILE PUTTING MONEY ON ISRAEL'S POCKETS AND BUYING SURVEY SYSTEMS TESTED IN GAZA BY ISRAEL
MADURO SAID HE WILL BUILD MAXIMUM SECURITY PRISIONS TO "RE-EDUCATE" THOSE WHO PROTEST, AND PUT THEM TO DO FREE LABOR WITHOUT CHANCE OF PAROLE (HEY BUD? THAT'S A CONCENTRATION CAMP)
MADURO DOES NOT STAND FOR THE SHIT THAT YALL THINK HE STANDS
military under maduro's regime showed up at the house of María Oropeza, the local coordinator of the Vente Venezuela opposition group in Portuguesa, and took her away with no warrant, no pretense of legality, no nothing.
she managed to stream live on instagram, and people recorded the screen so it wouldnt be lost.
over a thousan venezuelans have been detained, many under similar circumstances
this is NOT normal and NOT ok
Help Me and My Family Escape a Violent Dictatorship!!!
I am writing this with a heavy heart, living each day in fear, knowing that my voice could be silenced at any moment. In Venezuela, speaking the truth has become a crime. I have risked everything to expose the brutal reality of forced detentions and the mass killings of innocent civilians, and now, the regime is coming for me and my family. We are trapped in a country that no longer respects human life, where the walls are closing in on us.
Every day is a battle for survival as we face persecution for daring to stand up against a violent dictatorship. The government has made it clear: dissent will not be tolerated, and they are determined to silence those who speak out. My only hope now is to flee, to escape with my family before it’s too late. But freedom comes at a price. We need to secure passports and cover other critical expenses to make our escape possible. The cost of each passport is $216 an amount that might seem small, but in our circumstances, it’s insurmountable without your help.
This is not just a plea for financial support; it’s a cry for survival. Every dollar you contribute brings us one step closer to safety, to a life where we can live without fear of being hunted down for our beliefs. Your generosity could be the difference between life and death for us. Please, if you can find it in your heart, help us escape this nightmare. Share our story, donate if you can, and stand with us in our fight for freedom… Your support is not just a donation, it’s a lifeline. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts.
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Some more information about Venezuela that I found out through one of my good friends (she’s Venezuelan, she immigrated here a few years ago and she shares a lot of stuff about what’s happening in her home country).
The Venezuelan government is imprisoning everyone who says anything against Maduro or the government in social media. People who have made videos talking about the ongoing situation are deleting them because the government is already looking for them. People who appeared in videos of the protests are being incarcerated.
Even some Venezuelans in another countries are afraid of speaking up in fear that the police will go get their families.
Maduro has decided (and is already on it) to build 2 maximum security prisons to incarcerate anyone who goes against the corrupted government and torture them. He did not build a single hospital during his presidency, but he can build 2 prisons to imprison civilians… interesting.
(This information is taken from this Instagram video, I simply translated what the original poster is saying.)
“You’re literally rich and an imperialistic infiltrating American oppressing the good people of the Venezuelan government because you’re literally speaking English and have WiFi”
WTF are u guys talking about??? We are giving information in English because it’s a language that can and will reach more people, I’m sorry that YOU are so stupid to think that because someone knows another language (which in most places is the first to be taught and learned as a second language) it’s impossible for that person to be in a bad situation and oppressed and even then when we make a grammatical mistake or put the wrong word in a sentence you still find a way to make fun of that too?
You guys have done a 180, you’re so liberal and left leaning and fight for so many “rights” that YOU GUYS SOUND LIKE THE FAR RIGHT DICKHEADS YOU HATE!. It’s so fucking stupid to be defending a government literally killing and torturing people for years now, making now two new prisons for everyone who publicly its against them and not even just by protesting but the police is literally stopping people and making them show their phones to them and if they find anything even shit talking the government in a private chat with your best friend that could mean that you’re going to jail and be tortured, how are u guys defending this? Because they said they’re from the left? nEWSFLASH literally every government can be authoritarian!
They’re RAPING WOMEN AND MEN, INCLUDING FUCKIN MINORS! They have the biggest center of torture in latinoamerica, they have done this repeatedly for years and you cannot see it because you’re to focused on yourself and your fucking country! They’re killing us and you can only talk about how bad America is while most of you are American, YOU’RE TALKING ABOUT YOURSELF! The call is coming from inside the house! Get your head off your ass! Be aware of what the fuck is happening! Stop telling US about our own experiences and PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD STOP AcTING LIKE WE ARE WAR CRIMINALS because WE WANT FREEDOM!
some of the things ive found that show evidence of the votes and show how they were counted:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/31/world/americas/venezuela-maduro-election-results.html?smid=url-share
nicolas maduro is blocking social media, btw
he's blocking twitter from being able to be used in venezuela, and he wants to block whatsapp and signal as well
he's painting the apps as "dirty tools of the imperialist to corrupt venezuelans", and wants them off the country -a few days after he claimed people who criticised him are part of a satanic cult btw
he doesnt like the way people are talking about venezuela between each other in those apps, so he wants them off of the country entirely
this is the guy first world commies love and rave about
i really need leftist tankies to get through their heads that when people reminded the current venezuelan government that national guard wasnt legally allowed to use firearms to stop protests (not that it ever stopped them) what his government did was instating the Colectivos: ARMED civilians under their command (with sometimes personnel of Venezuela's intelligence agencies being a part of it!! how nice and clearly legal!!!)
they are not officials, so they arent subjected to the "rules" the national armed forces are subjected to
it was established BY Maduro's regime
now a different thing is the oposition's "comanditos" which are not, DESPITE WHAT TANKIES AND MADURISTAS WANT YOU TO THINK, armed forces: it simply the name that was given to the voluntary small groups (min of 5, max of 20) of individuals that were formed THIS YEAR and coordinated together to ensure people voted, and later on Make Sure that they would get their hands in the electoral receipts to be able to scan and publish them as soon as possible and as anonymously as it was possible, because they knew that with that we'd have the proof that the opposition won
CANTV, venezuela's biggest company of telecommunications (and which was acquired by the government to make it "public," so the regime controls the higher-ups), is now blocking access to multiple web domains
most if not all the other internet providers in the country pass by CANTV's ISP because they are the ONLY ONES with the infrastructure and the international agreements required
above it's the announcement about them blocking the microsoft domain, which affects all the subdomains like microsoft teams, microsoft outlook etc
i want you to imagine what this might do to anyone who works with a Microsoft platform or that has an online job in which teams is required
when i was living in venezuela, back in 2020, i lost my job because the power outages made it so i could not be available during work hours, and with this fucking bullshit that THE MADURO REGIME IS DOING (because yes: it's THEM who gave the orders to block websites), who knows how people are going to be affected
Don't know if this is making the rounds here bc it's quite recent but TunnelBear VPN is now free for people connecting from Venezuela to use to elude censorship!
You can get it here!! Stay strong and safe!!
Stop making it about left or right, not everything has to do with the Usa.
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have just spent the past few hours reading up on as many news articles as i can and looking for as much information i can about what is happening in Venezuela and i know not many people are following me but PLEASE look for information and news about whats happening its insane and there a lot of bullshit happening. im going to try to find as many posts i can about this and try to reblog stuff and post news articles and websites from organizations that show results and stuff about this, at least read up on this cause insane things are happening right now they are literally blocking social media platforms and arresting people because of doing any small thing that is against the government, i read that someone was arrested literally cause they had a meme on their phone that was against the government. theres even more horrible things happening, and i mean i cant really hugely speak on this because i am not in Venezuela and am not Venezuelan and dont really have any ties to any of whats going on, im just trying to do what i can and at least spread the word and spread info and articles and posts from people who know more about this than me so please look at the posts im reblogging and news articles that i may post!!!
since im aware that most people dont know why so many of us who oppose maduro are SURE that he lost, and thus his claim to power is illegitimate dont know how voting works in venezuela, as someone who is 27 years old, and thus have participated in multiple votings i shall make it my duty to give a brief explanation:
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Venezuelas voting systems has been called by other governments "The most secure voting system in the world". This is because of the fact that it's a process that immediately generates two different sets of paper trail that allows the verification of the digital results of the voting via the physical receipts.
The way that the process works is as it follows:
(step 0. You register to vote in your municipality. According to your adress, you get assigned into one of hundreds of tables by state. You Can Only Vote In That Location. The registry includes the scanning of your thumbprint.)
You step up to a machine in the voting booth. This machine will NOT allow you to vote until you unlock it using your thumbprint, and it will show you your information (Name and ID)
You'll be presented with the ballot and then you must tap on the screen the candidate and party you want to vote for from the list.
The picture and name of the candidate will appear in the center of the screen and you must select it AGAIN for the vote to be counted.
The machine then confirms your vote and it prints a paper ballot TO YOU. You take it from the machine's printing module.
You then put the ballot into the SEALED/LOCKED ballot box, along with the ballots of every other person who voted in your same table.
You sign your name in the attendance list, put your thumbprint into that list AND your pinky finger gets dipped in blue/purple ink, so it's easily identifiable that you voted.
That's the process as of the citizens. Now When voting is done, A paper receipt (Acta Electoral) is printed from each machine. This Acta is then confirmed by ALL electoral witnesses at a table, it's signed and it's supposed to eventually be given to the CNE (Centro Nacional Electoral or "National Electoral Center") for eventual publication in their official website, so everyone could confirm that what they voted for is what's registered.
It's only AFTER the Actas Electorales were printed that the digital results registered by the voting machines are THEN sent to the CNE.
it's important to remark this: back in 2013, one of MADURO'S CAMPAIGN'S MAIN ARGUMENTS on why that one voting wasnt a fraud was, AND I QUOTE:
"Primero la máquina imprime esta acta, después que imprime esta acta, la máquina transmite. Primero imprime, es muy importante que los venezolanos sepamos y entendamos para evitar la mentira y el engaño, imprime y después transmite"
"First the machine prints this receipt, after it prints it, the machine transmits it. First it prints, it's very important for venezuelans to know and understand this to avoid lies and deceit, it prints and after that it transmits [the results]."
It's also imperative for me to remark: each Acta Electoral has a UNIQUE digital code. So it cant be forged easily. Here's a video after a different voting, and one of the government/PSUV officials bragging about how the Actas de Votación are irrevocable evidence.
Now with all of this out of the way, let's go back to the election day, July 28th.
Now mind you, i am currently not in Venezuela, and instead i had to leave the country not for what you might think, but instead for reasons partaining to my personal safety. But that's neither here nor there. Im just mentioning it so that you understand the lence of my POV.
Now even from before the elections, there was a lot of voting interferance going on: people finding out they had been unregitered to vote, people who had moved startes finding out their voting centers had been reverse to their old addresses. Hell, even most people in the outside of the country were scrambling cause many of OUR voting centers were changed to being BACK in Venezuela, instead of our local Embassy.
Now come the day of the voting, people are lining up from before the sun is up. And voting is supposed to run from 6am to 6pm. Ensuring that as many Venezuelans could vote.
However, in many locations, there were reports of colectivos (armed pro-government civilian militia) showing up around voting centers, discouraging people from voting, and even threatening individuals.
Some tables were reportedly closed earlier, leaving people who had been in line for hours unable to vote.
And remember how I mentioned electoral witnesses earlier? well, usually, witnesses are supposed to be from both parties to reassure that the results that they are shown given by any party ARE the ones they saw. Well... in some locations they were reporting how witnesses from the opposition party were NOT being allowed into the voting tables AFTER voting was closed.
NOW.
The time after voting is closed passes. And then the Results are announced on July 29th 00:09/12:09am
They declare that with around 80% of the votes counted, Maduro had won. The percentages that they announced were as follows: Maduro 51.4%, Edmundo Gonzalez 44.2%, and three different third party candidates with around 4% EACH. now. eagle eyed readers will notice.... that's more than 100%
Now it could be say that because of there being some more % left to be counted then it could be a margin of error EXCEPT if we go by that logic, 80% of votes having been counted for an over 10M confirmed voters turnabout means there's around 2 million votes left to be counted and the difference between maduro and gonzales... being less than 1 million votes, so WHY did they announce themselves winners preemptively then but that's just my own personal read.
now. remember that multi-step system i described? the one praised worldwide as one of the most secure voting systems in the world?
THIS EXACT SYSTEM IS WHY THE OPPOSITION KNOWS MADURO WAS NOT THE WINNER.
see, knowing that some foul play might happen during such crucial elections, most of the opposition witnesses and voting table volunteers stayed in the voting table area for hours if necessary, and many of the claim they had to way for hours for their LEGITIMATE RIGHT to see the voting ballot receipts. And after they got them? They hid them in books, in their pockets, in their underwear. Wherever they had to put them to get the Actas outside of the building and into the hands of the opposition party.
that's why on MONDAY JULY 29th the web https://resultadosconvzla.com/ was launched by the opposition. Hundreds if not thousands of people got their Actas, scanned them and sent them on the way of the opposition party, so as to safekeep the FACTUAL RESULTS registered by the venezuelan voting system.
out of 30,026 voting tables, they got the results of 25,073
and in those results the victory of the opposition is STAGGERING. as in 70% of the votes to the opposition, 23% to maduro levels of difference.
and in some cases, witnesses from the pro-maduro side of the tables have shown off the actas they have in which they won.... just for them to actually COINCIDE with the ones shown in the web that the opposition made, which only makes them more valid.
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so what now?
well, maduro still claims he won, and he has asked the Tribunal of Supreme Justice (which he controls and has people he handpicked running it) to declare that the results given by the CNE (which, you guessed it, he controls and has people he handpicked running it) are the legitimate ones. so maduro asked maduro to confirm the results maduro declared. sounds logical, no?
that isnt even to mention the fact that the CNE has refused to upload and publish the Actas de Votación in the time that our consitution indicates they have to (72 Hours), because they claim that they are under "a massive hacking attack", which on one side makes you say: so... if you cant access the actas and therefore the results, then why are you declaring anyone a winner?... and on the other hand Kaspersky Lab, arguably the biggest russian cyber security company, didnt show any attacks happening in venezuela during those dates.
Now during this entire situation, the Carter Center was present in venezuela for the voting. The Carter Center has been present in previous elections in the country and has backed them as legitimate, and even the government of venezuela praised them and celebrated their arrival to the country.
They indicated that they would do a report soon and left the country the day after the elections happened. And in August 5th they said that they
"No encontraron evidencias de 'hackeo' al sistema electoral, desmintiendo así las versiones oficialistas de manipulación de actas por parte de la oposición" ... el Consejo Nacional Electoral (CNE) no presentó pruebas del supuesto hackeo, y afirmó que un saboteo era “prácticamente imposible”
"They didnt find any evidence of 'hacking' in the voting system, disproving the cflaims from the government that there was manipulation in the results receipts shown by the opposition"... the CNE did not present any proof of the supposed hacking, and sabotage was "basically imposible"
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now i know yall first world lefties get a rash whenever former or current US presidents are mentioned BUT the Carter Center HAS been impartial on venezuelan results in the past, backing maduro elections before. But their report on this year's elections is FAR from positive. And the UN has also declared that their own correspondents couldnt stand behind the results being announced by the venezuelan government.
Anyways.
Why am i writing all this? Well... maybe because im tired of people yapping without knowing what's actually happening. Why the venezuelan opposition is AFFIRMING that they won, and Maduro DID NOT. Because he didn't.
And this time THE PEOPLE made sure that the real results saw the light. And no one could tell us we are only screaming nonsense.
We. Won.
And now they are trying to shut our people up with violence. Refusing to accept their loss. They are killing people. Incarcerating thousands. Just for ASKING that our choice is respected.
Please dont side with an oppressor.
Please dont abandon the people of Venezuela.
Maduro has banned Twitter in Venezuela for, allegedly, 10 days. His reason is that “it is encouraging hate and promoting a civil war”.
He wants to control every piece of information, there is proof of his electoral fraud and he wants to censor everything. Freedom of speech does not exist as long as he is in control, it has not existed for a while now.
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