The political stability in Venezuela remains in critical condition after the controversy sparked by the announcement of the re-election of Nicolas Maduro as president. Thousands of Venezuelans, both supporters of the government and opponents, have taken to the streets of Caracas in a show of strength and support for their respective causes.
Venezuelan opposition leader, Maria Corina Machadofrom hiding, published an article last Thursday through the American newspaper ‘The Wall Street Journal’, through which he called for the demonstration against the result of the elections that gave victory to President Maduro.
Dance of numbers
According to the anti-Chavez coalition, the Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD), the anti-Chavez supporters won with 51.2% of the voting records in their favour, which have been announced on a website to support their claims. The opposition, for its part, has also collected data that is accessible on another website. Specifically, there is one of them that claims to contain at least 24,576 records, which represents 81.8% of the total votes. The operation is very simple since anyone can search for a record and consult the detailed results, which can be downloaded.
The opposition does not believe the official results
Machado arrived at the demonstration, which took place east of Caracas, riding a truck and was greeted by attendees under the cry of “freedom”. She was joined by other members of the anti-Chavez coalition, such as Delsa Solórzano, Juan Pablo Guanipa, María Beatriz Martínez, Biagio Pilieri and Williams Dávila. For the moment, the presence of the party’s candidate Edmundo González Urrutia has not been confirmed.
In her speech, Machado has advocated before thousands of Venezuelans to maintain a fight “peaceful and civic” but with “force”, stressing that the elections of July 28 marked a “milestone” in the transition to democracy in Venezuela. In his speech, he stressed the importance of citizen participation despite the repression suffered in the demonstrations on Monday and Tuesday, which left 13 dead and more than 1,200 arrested.
“After a brutal repression, they thought they were going to silence us, frighten us or paralyze us, the presence of each one of you here shows the world the magnitude of the force and what it means that we will go all the way,” Machado said. denounced the persecution against electoral witnesses and said that “fear” is on the side of the Maduro government. “Today fear is elsewhere (…) ours is a civic and peaceful struggle, but it is not weak,” he added.
Chavismo flexes its muscles
For its part, the Chavistas rejected the validity of the documentation presented by the opposition and organized a massive march in defense of peace and in support of Maduro. Dozens of bikers They have marched through the east of the capital, honking their horns in support of the current president and condemning what they consider an attempted coup.
The international community is closely watching the developments, with several countries, such as the United States and Argentina, have acknowledged the claims of the opposition on the victory of González Urrutia.
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