Venezuela crisis #2

Highly likely that NATzO will try to pull another brazen interference operation to destabilize Venezuela

Maduro wins the election with 51.2% of the vote, reports Venezuela's National Electoral Council, 07.29.2024.

Maduro has won 51.2 percent of the vote so far, while opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez has 44.2 percent.

With 80% of the votes already counted, the National Electoral Council (CNE) announced that Nicolás Maduro won the elections in Venezuela. The body says that with this percentage of ballots counted so far, Maduro's victory is considered "irreversible".

According to the CNE, Maduro has won 51.2% of the vote so far, while opposition candidate Edmundo González has obtained 44.2%.

The opposition has not yet spoken out.

According to the Council, a total of 21 million 620 thousand 705 Venezuelan voters in the country and 228 thousand voters residing abroad were able to exercise their right to vote, in the more than 15,000 voting centers distributed throughout the country.

Election Day began at 06: 00 local time (10: 00 GMT) and ended at 18: 00 local time (22: 00 GMT). The elections enjoyed broad international support, with participants from around the world including foreign observers from the United States ' Carter Center, the Latin American Council of electoral experts, the UN panel of experts and others.

Among the thousands of escorts are politicians, academics, parliamentarians, intellectuals, journalists and personalities from Latin America, the Caribbean, Europe, Africa, North America and Asia.

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Controlled inflation and stocked retail stores are Maduro's trump card in Venezuela's elections, by Mauricio Leandro Osorio for Brazilian outlet Opera Mundi. 07.29.2024.

The South American country last month recorded its lowest inflation in 39 years, despite still having to deal with more than 900 economic sanctions.

Venezuela lived this Sunday (28/07) one of the most important presidential elections in its history, in which one factor may end up being predominant: the recovery of the country's economy during the second term of President Nicolás Maduro, who seeks a new re-election in this election.

In June 2024, the South American country registered its lowest inflation in the last 39 years and the value of its currency has remained stable in the last eight months, according to indicators supported by international organizations such as the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

That same UNDP, in one of its reports on Venezuela's macroeconomic performance – a document published in 2023 – established that the rise of the country's national GDP reached 2.6%, supported by a 9.4% increase in oil activity.

This scenario contrasts sharply with the one experienced nine years ago, when Venezuela received 930 economic sanctions, the vast majority of them imposed by the United States, which provoked a severe economic crisis. The country once had inflation of 344,000% and saw its oil revenues fall from$ 56 billion in 2012 to$ 743 million in 2020.

It was during this period that the exodus of almost 5 million Venezuelans was recorded, in addition to the rise of the so-called “bachaqueros”, people who were dedicated to smuggling and speculation.

'Ex-immigrants' say they are ' impressed’ by improving economy

In the streets, both those who support the opposition and those who support chavismo maintain a consensus: Venezuela wants to maintain economic growth and social peace.

In addition to the improvement of the economy, the country has been showing a significant decrease in crime rates. The stores are stocked with products and food, with a large presence of the items manufactured in the country itself.

There is also an increase in credit to entrepreneurs by public banks, as well as housing loans: in July 2024, the government announced that more than five million homes had been delivered since 2017, and that the goal is to reach 8 million if Maduro is re-elected.

Venezuelan artist Gustavo Urdante, known as Gadu, who spent 19 years outside the country, says he has returned to the country “to stay.” In an interview with Opera Mundi, he says he will vote for one of the opposing candidates, but acknowledged that “there is a change in the country that favors entrepreneurs, there are new businesses, restaurants are full, casinos are full.”

Jean Pierre walks with his cousin Kioskare through Chacao, one of the noble neighborhoods of Caracas. He is a Venezuelan who lives in Santiago de Chile, but is passing through his native country and will vote this Sunday. Although he expresses his discontent that several of his compatriots will not be able to vote in Chile, he admits that the situation in the country has changed.

“I live outside and I can tell you well what diversity of goods is, and what we see now is that everything is full, business is full (of products). The same goes for security. We cannot deny that there is a lot of security now. I came here afraid of having my cell phone stolen, but now I'm impressed because I feel like I can walk down the street with my phone quietly,” he says.

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NATO Thugs are attacking Venezuelan police and military in Caracas!!!

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Venezuelan security forces SHOULD NOT emulate the Yanukovich-led Ukraine response to NATO Thugs, there should be no RESTRAIN when dealing with NATzO PIGS. OPEN FIRE AND KILL THEM ALL!!! KILL THEIR FAMILIES AS WELL.

Venezuelan security forces need to make sure that all NATzO Thugs including their top figures are arrested, lynched and Burned alive!

The US orchestrates and "finances both the opposition and the riots" in Venezuela, 07.30.2024.

The protests in Caracas after the presidential elections on July 28 are financed by the United States, which has its own interests in Venezuela and sponsors the country's opposition, a member of the Russian observer delegation, who is also a member of the Lower House of the Russian Parliament, Alexei Volotskov, told Sputnik.

"Today, from the windows of our hotel, we have seen how the protesters overtook a policeman on a motorcycle, knocked him down, grabbed the motorcycle and left on it. This shows once again that there is also an economic and property component here, that is, that people in these riots are trying to find some kind of economic utility," Volotskov said.

He also stressed the special interest of the United States in the country, and accused Washington of financing the opposition and protests.

"Of course, it is undoubtedly about financing coming from abroad, and such radical opinions of hooligan-minded young people who may be looking for an economic benefit in this matter: taking some property, breaking something and stealing, probably all this multiplies," he explained.

"The theft and banditry, multiplied by the support, slogans and financing — there is nothing to hide — of the American state, which has its own interests here and finances both the opposition and the riots that we are currently witnessing, being in Venezuela, in Caracas," the Russian observer added.

The demonstrations of extremists in Venezuela after the elections are a staged action and are not capable of influencing the electoral process, Volotskov added.

"I think they are not capable [of influencing the electoral process], because when I was in the center today, I saw this contingent. These are radicalized young people and probably people who took to the streets with hooligan motives. I am sure that a part of them received financial support for this movement, because they actively gathered and began to move from the neighborhoods to the city center following his orders. It is clear that this is an orchestrated action and systematic work," Volotskov said.

"According to my feelings, the people who wanted to lift this mass, caught some of it, but most of it stayed at home and did not join the protesters," he concluded.

Presidential elections were held in Venezuela on July 28, which was won by the current president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro. After that, the protests began in Caracas on July 29 with clashes between the police and the demonstrators. The Venezuelan government declared that several countries had interfered in the elections and in the people's right to self-determination.

In turn, the leader of the opposition, María Corina Machado, who was prevented from running in these elections, has a long history with organizations funded by the United States. The NGO he founded, Sumate, was funded by the United States through the American organization, National Foundation for Democracy.

In the early and mid-2000s, Machado and three other leaders of the Sumate organization were tried for treason. According to diplomatic sources revealed by WikiLeaks in 2011, the US government publicly and privately supported Sumate and pressured other countries to pressure Venezuela to drop the charges.

Also, a confidential cable dated June 14, 2005 described the effects of a meeting between Machado and then-U.S. President George W. Bush, stating that it gave opponents of then-Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez a "much-needed moral boost."

"The opponents of President Chávez greeted the May 31 meeting with high-fives for sticking their finger in Chávez's eye, and momentarily put aside differences, delighting that one of their own was received at such a high level," the source said, adding that he did not want to seem too close to Sumate.


"It's important now to let the organization ride this wave largely on its own. A continued and too obvious public identification with the United States could now be counterproductive. At the same time, however, we must ensure that Sumate has the necessary resources to exploit this new advantageous position that it enjoys," he said.

"The important thing now is to allow the organization to survive this uptick largely by itself. Maintaining too explicit a public identification with the United States now may be counterproductive. At the same time, we must ensure that Sumate has the necessary resources to capitalize on the new advantage it possesses," he added.

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Caracas should not bow right away to international pressure to release the election minutes. It should respond to those hotheads that the Venezuelan National Electoral Council is a trustworthy organ, with an unblemished historic reputation record and that the slightest direct and indirect insinuations and accusations of fraud are politically biased and utterly unacceptable!

Sheinbaum says electoral authorities have "the last word" on Venezuela, 08.01.2024.

The virtual president-elect of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, spoke for the first time about the results of the elections in Venezuela, which give the current president, Nicolás Maduro, as the winner.

"It is very important, first, the self-determination of the peoples, in this case, of the Venezuelan. [Subsequently], let it be very clear [the procedure] of how [the case] was resolved and, there is an instance, such as the Electoral Tribunal here (in Mexico), that must give the final word," Sheinbaum said at a press conference.

Like the current president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Sheinbaum criticized the Organization of American States (OAS).

"For years, particularly with Cuba at the time, it has had a role more of interventionism than coordination with the countries of Latin America, the Caribbean and [the rest of the continent]," she accused.

The virtual head of the Mexican state specified that, the main thing at this moment, is transparency about the elections on Venezuelan soil, where the defense of democracy prevails.
"Why doesn't the OAS speak in other cases and, in this one, yes? Even his current secretary [Luis Almagro] had a not very good moment with the then [Mexican] Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard. What was he supposed to be opining on particular topics?", recalled the future president of the Latin American nation.

Both Sheinbaum and López Obrador have announced that they will take a position on the electoral results of Venezuela until the National Electoral Council (CNE) of the South American country gives more information about it.

Meanwhile, the Venezuelan electoral authorities have indicated that Maduro, who ran for the Gran Polo Patriótico coalition, obtained five million 150,902 votes (51.2%), more than the results of the candidate Edmundo González, of the opposition alliance Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD), who got four 445,978 votes (44.2%). The latter force ignored the data.

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Since Brazilian Celso Amorim keeps on delaying his return from Caracas to Brazil, where he's in an open subversive operation against the Venezuelan National Electoral Council, Mexico should envisage sending an observer as well:

Brazil, Colombia and Mexico issue joint statement on the elections in Venezuela; check it out, 08.01.2024.

Itamaraty released tonight (1st) a joint note with the governments of Colombia and Mexico expressing solidarity with the Venezuelan people for going to the polls in the context of the election that took place last Sunday (28).

"We closely monitor the vote counting process and call on Venezuela's electoral authorities to move forward expeditiously and publicly release the data disaggregated by polling station," the statement said.

The note continues: "controversies over the electoral process must be resolved through institutional means. The fundamental principle of popular sovereignty must be respected through impartial verification of results."

The note also points out that the maintenance of social peace and the protection of human lives must be priorities at this time.

Brazilian Foreign Ministry in Venezuelan elections

On Wednesday (31), the Brazilian Foreign Ministry decided to defend the diplomatic interests of seven countries that challenged the result of the elections in Venezuela. Among them is Argentina. Argentine president Javier Milei thanked Brazil on Thursday.

In addition to Buenos Aires, Brasilia will defend the diplomatic corps of six other Latin American countries that contested the Venezuelan election result: Chile, Costa Rica, Peru, Panama, Dominican Republic, Peru and Uruguay.

In addition to Buenos Aires, Brasilia will defend the diplomatic corps of six other Latin American countries that contested the Venezuelan election result: Chile, Costa Rica, Peru, Panama, Dominican Republic, Peru and Uruguay.

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A watershed impetus is needed in the Western Hemisphere, and the Venezuelan crisis provides it.
On the one hand, the US affiliated countries led by Brazil's Celso Amorim: Brazil, Argentina, Uruguai, Chile, Guyana, Peru, Panama, et cetera.
On the other, the progressive countries led by Mexico's Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, with Venezuela, México, Bolivia, Cuba, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, Surinam et cetera. in favour of regional sovereignty and the respect of national institutions such as the Consejo Nacional Electoral from Venezuela.

CNE (Venezuelan National Electoral Council) gives the second bulletin of the elections in Venezuela, 08.02.2024.

With 96.87% of the minutes, the president of the body, Elvis Amoroso, gave the final results of the July 28 elections.

The president of the National Electoral Council (CNE) of Venezuela, Elvis Amoroso, offered this Friday the second bulletin of the results of the presidential elections last Sunday, which gave the victory to the president, Nicolás Maduro.

With 96.87% of the acts processed, Amoroso indicated that Maduro reaches 6,408,844 votes (51.95% of the votes); while his closest opponent, the opponent Edmundo González, gets 5,326,104 (43.18%).

The official also pointed out that the participation of Venezuelans in these elections, with the acts processed so far, is 59.97%.

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Former presidential candidates appear before the Supreme Court for the expert opinion on the elections in Venezuela, 08.02.2024.

The agency called the 10 candidates who participated in the contest.

This Friday afternoon, nine of the 10 former Venezuelan presidential candidates who competed in the elections of last July 28, arrived at the headquarters of the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) in Caracas to respond to the call made by the entity, regarding an investigation into the development of the electoral process requested by the president and winner of the contest, Nicolás Maduro.

The day before, the president of the supreme court and her Electoral Chamber, Caryslia Rodríguez, cited Maduro and the nine remaining candidates who participated in the race, namely: Luis Martínez, Edmundo González, Daniel Ceballos, Antonio Ecarri, Benjamín Rausseo, Enrique Marquez, José Brito, Javier Bertucci and Claudio Fermín.

Before the deadline passed, the cameras captured Rausseo - who declined to offer statements - and also Martinez, as they entered the headquarters.

Maduro, who according to official data obtained a third term and is listed as a promoter of an amparo (support) appeal, also appeared.

For his part, Fermín acknowledged receipt of the organ's call on his social networks and demanded the National Electoral Council (CNE) to disclose the voting records, while Ecarri confirmed his attendance, assured that he has not been "informed" of the reason for his appearance and joined Fermín's request.

Brito validated the initiative that aims to put an end to the electoral diatribe in the Supreme Court, by assuring that in order to quickly overcome the crisis, "the minutes of all the candidates must be checked and that the CNE consigns the minutes to the Electoral Hall of the Supreme Court," in order "to put an end to any [media] matrix that they created to confuse the people and put at risk the tranquility of Venezuela."

Neither Bertucci nor Ceballos expressed their opinions on the judicial summons, but, like Márquez, they attended the appointment, while factors linked to González Urrutia – who has refused to recognize Maduro's victory – questioned the constitutionality of the appeal filed by the head of state and he chose not to appear.

Protect rights

In the voice of its president, the Electoral Chamber of the TSJ argued that his intervention aims to "protect access to the political rights of the population" and "guarantee access [...] to the electoral justice system with the application of the regulations and procedures that regulate the matter, whose decisions must be executed by rule of the Constitution and the law, in strict observance of the principles that govern electoral processes."

Investigation

The call came after the Supreme Court admitted an amparo appeal filed by Maduro last Wednesday, July 31, through which he asked to clarify "everything that needs to be clarified." Thus, Rodriguez announced the beginning of the "investigation and verification process."

With his appeal, the President demanded that the results of the elections be certified by an expert examination. The objective is for the highest judicial body to "deal with the attack on the electoral process and the attempted coup d'état."

On that occasion, Maduro also asked that all the candidates who participated in the race be summoned, including him, by the supreme court and that the aggression against electoral centres, headquarters of the National Electoral Council (CNE) and the cyber attack against the electoral system be compared.

The President filed this appeal after the opposition refused to comply with the electoral results and the foci of violence generated by shock groups.

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AMLO, Petro and Lula's stance on Venezuela shows that "the US no longer prevails" in Latin America, by Karen Fabián from Mexico. 08.03.2024.

The common position of Mexico, Colombia and Brazil, which is striving to achieve an institutional solution to the post-electoral crisis in Venezuela outside the Organization of American States (OAS), indicates that the United States no longer has the final say in the affairs of the region, experts consulted by Sputnik agree.

The presidents of Mexico, Colombia and Brazil, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Gustavo Petro and Luis Inacio Lula da Silva, respectively, held a telephone call on the afternoon of August 1 to discuss the situation in Venezuela after the presidential elections of July 28 in which the president, Nicolás Maduro, won the victory over the opponent Edmundo González Urrutia.

"The heads of state and government met to continue working on options that provide the international accompaniment that the Venezuelan people need at the moment. Of course, always respecting their sovereignty and allowing the definitive solution of the current controversies," said Colombian Foreign Minister Luis Gilberto Murillo.

The diplomat added that, at the conclusion of the call, the Colombian head of state communicated with his counterpart from Chile, Gabriel Boric, "who agreed with what was expressed by Colombia, Brazil and Mexico in their statement." According to the Colombian president, the dialogue with the former student leader and current Chilean head of state aimed to "strengthen this Latin American group."

For the academic of the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences and PhD in Latin American studies of the UNAM, Monica Velasco Molina, the emergence of this position formed by the three Latin American left powers is of great importance because it is the impulse to try to solve the problems of the region without the intervention of the United States.

"We are appealing to the sovereignty of our countries in our own institutional way, not the one imposed or desired by any external entity," Velasco Molina observed in an interview with Sputnik.

"The call between them reflects that the United States is no longer the one that prevails in Latin American issues, it is increasingly difficult for it to impose its decisions," she added.

He also pointed out that the geopolitical weight that these three nations have is decisive, since they are the two main economies of the region — Brazil and Mexico — and one country — Colombia — that has gained a very strong weight in terms of foreign policy.

"Undoubtedly, Andrés Manuel's role is very relevant, not only because he has led a new progressive wave in Latin America, but also because he has been very prudent regarding foreign policy decisions," the academic said.

The OAS has lost a lot of credibility

The dialogue between the leaders took place a day after the Organization of American States (OAS) failed to achieve the necessary consensus to approve a resolution to demand that the Venezuelan authorities "immediately" publish the minutes of Sunday's elections.

This is due to the absence of Mexico, Colombia and several Caribbean countries, as well as the abstention of Brazil and Bolivia, among others.

In this regard, Velasco Molina pointed out the possibility that, during Thursday's call, the Latin American leaders considered what to do in case the tension situation in the Caribbean country increases.

"And a very important institutional channel, because it is the CELAC [Community of Latin American and Caribbean States] and not the OAS," the academic observed.

"The OAS has lost a lot of credibility in our region, especially in Almagro's secretariat, all the actions that Almagro has supported have been to benefit the coup plotters in our countries, the clearest has been that of Bolivia [in 2019], but let's not forget also that of Peru [in 2022]," she added.

In the same vein, Javier Gámez Chávez, a Doctor of History and academic at Rosario Castellanos University, mentioned that, since its foundation, the Organization of American States has been strongly influenced by Washington.

In that sense, the UNAM academic also pointed out that Mexico, Brazil and Colombia are seeking to stop the US intervention through the OAS, as well as prevent the conflict from escalating into a social crisis.

"What the Mexican government is trying to do is apply one of its important points, which is non-intervention, within its international policy. That is the origin, there should be no intervention and much less in the issues that are only exclusive to the Venezuelan people," Gámez Chávez analyzed in an interview with Sputnik.

What did Mexico, Colombia and Brazil say?

After talking for more than an hour, the three Latin American nations asked the electoral authorities of Venezuela to disseminate the results of the elections of July 28.

"We are following the vote counting process very closely and we call on the Venezuelan electoral authorities to move quickly and publicly disclose the data broken down by polling station," the joint statement read.

In turn, they assured that "disputes over the electoral process should be resolved through institutional channels" and called for "maximum caution and restraint" in demonstrations and public events to avoid escalating violence.

A few hours after the publication of the joint statement, the US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, ignored the victory of Nicolás Mauro and asserted that the electoral process and the voting day were plagued by alleged "irregularities" and "defects".

"It is clear to the United States and, more importantly, to the Venezuelan people, that Edmundo González Urrutia obtained the highest number of votes in Venezuela's presidential elections on July 28," the statement from the senior U.S. official read.

In this regard, Gómez Chávez pointed out that the recognition of Washington and its allies to the opposition candidate who lost the election only pays for "that asymmetric struggle to continue within Venezuelan territory."

"Their goal, possibly, is that they can reach a very high crisis, where the idea is that Maduro resigns," the historian considered.

"The recognition [of Edmundo González] is going around, but from my point of view they are not going to be very successful. If they could not win an election, they are less going to win an indirect intervention in Venezuelan territory," concluded Chávez Gómez.

In the July 28 elections, the president of Venezuela and candidate for the Gran Polo Patriótico coalition (left), Nicolás Maduro, won 51.2% of the votes, compared to 44.2% for Edmundo González Urrutia, of the opposition Unitarian Democratic Platform (PUD, centre), according to the National Electoral Council. After the elections, the PUD ignored the results and announced González as "president elect".

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Major Latin American Powers, Hungary Block US-EU Push to Isolate Venezuela's Maduro, by Ilya Tsukanov for Sputnikglobe. 08.04.2024.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was reelected to a third term in office in a showdown with united opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez last Sunday, taking 52% of the vote to Gonzalez’ 43%. The US and its allies decried the results, recognized the opposition leader and demanded negotiations for a “peaceful transition of power.”

Efforts by Washington and Brussels to diplomatically isolate President Nicolas Maduro have failed spectacularly after important members of the Organization of American States (OAS) and the European Union rejected efforts to condemn the Venezuelan election results.

In the OAS, major Latin American countries Brazil, Mexico and Colombia abstained from a resolution tabled Wednesday demanding that Caracas release detailed vote tallies and take other steps, including measures to ensure the security of the opposition. The three nations were joined in abstaining from the resolution or being absent from the vote by Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Grenada, Honduras, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas, Dominica, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and Trinidad and Tobago. With 11 OAS members abstaining and five members absent, the resolution failed to attain the required majority to pass.

Permanent Council chairman Ronald Sanders said a consensus could not be reached over a “controversial phrase,” without elaborating.

Across the Atlantic, Hungary blocked a similar proposed joint statement on behalf of the EU’s 27 member countries on purported “numerous flaws and irregularities” in Venezuela’s elections, forcing EU foreign policy czar Josep Borrell to independently issue a statement in the EU’s name.
Hungary’s intransigence is expected to complicate efforts by Brussels to use unanimity among the bloc to justify the leveling of potential new sanctions against Venezuela. Budapest did not explain its motivation for vetoing the EU resolution.

US Secretary of State congratulated Gonzalez for “winning” last Sunday’s vote, with Russia, China, Belarus, Serbia, Iran, Turkiye, Syria, Azerbaijan, North Korea, Vietnam, Madagascar, Namibia, Bolivia, Cuba, Nicaragua and others recognizing the results and congratulating President Maduro for his victory.

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The harsh response of the Venezuelan military forces to the request of Edmundo González, 08.06.2024.

The Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB) and the police expressed their loyalty to President-elect Nicolás Maduro.

The Venezuelan military and security bodies have expressed on Tuesday their rejection of the communication issued the day before by the former opposition presidential candidate Edmundo González, where together with María Corina Machado he asked them to stand "on the side of the people" and to prevent the actions of the Government of Nicolás Maduro.

In a statement read by the Minister of Defense, Vladimir Padrino, what was expressed by González and Machado was classified as "seditious approaches," who "intend to abrogate the character of democrats" and "have a long and dark history as promoters of radical, unconstitutional and anti-democratic actions."

Among these actions are "requests for military interventions", "request for unilateral coercive measures" and "support for everything that entails the hybrid war" of the US and its allies against Venezuela.

"It is ostensibly cynical that this insurrectionary faction of the Venezuelan political opposition is now trying to put on a cloak of legality that it has never practiced," the letter reads.

The call to the police and military

Padrino expressed that it is "offensive" that they address the military and police whom they have always "despised" and incited "to disobey the laws." He also stressed that it was ironic that they were being urged to "take the side of history and the people" when "these troops are the ones most affected by the violence that they themselves have unleashed".

The Defence minister read that so far two members of the Bolivarian National Guard (GNB) have died and 59 police officers and 47 members of the FANB have been injured in the acts of violence that occurred in the country last week after the proclamation of Nicolás Maduro as elected president.

"These events will not go unpunished and will be the object of iron justice," he said, adding that the military and security forces will protect "internal order and peace throughout the national geography, always within the framework of respect for human rights and constitutional precepts."

According to the text, the "fascist current" of this extremist sector of the Venezuelan opposition "continues to try to position the thesis of an electoral victory that they wanted to build on the basis of false polls and a media campaign orchestrated to create fictitious expectations."

"Now they are trying to tarnish the aforementioned electoral process through the well-known script of violence," the text continues.

Last Monday, the Venezuelan prosecutor's Office opened a criminal investigation against González and Machado, for the alleged commission of "multiple crimes" by signing a pronouncement in which they urge police and military to rebel against the democratic order.

Other pronouncements

The Strategic Regions of Integral Defence (REDI) of Venezuela also issued, through different videos, their statements to reject the call made by González and Machado.

In the South American country, the REDI are divided into the Western, Andes, Los Llanos, Central, Eastern, Guyana, Maritime and Insular regions and Capital.

In the writings read by their commanders, all agreed to express their loyalty to President Maduro and to denounce the "unconstitutional actions" led by sectors of extremism that seek to "deceive the Venezuelan people" and disrespect the "morals, ethics and loyalty" of the FANB and the Police.

The REDI also repudiated the "incitement to hatred" and called for "understanding and peace".

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