#La Guaira

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View of El Cardonal, La Guaira, Venezuela

Venezuelan vintage postcard

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Venezuela Railways - Ferrocarril La Guaira y Caracas 0-6-4T steam locomotive Nr. 4 and passenger train (Nasmyth Wilson 227 / 1882) by Historical Railway Images Via Flickr:

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SEMANARIO – NOTICIAS DE MAR Y TIERRA DEL 16 AL 22 DE SEPTIEMBRE DEL 2024 -TITULARES-

#NoticiasdeMaryTierra. Sector Marítimo, Portuario y Logístico Nacional e Internacional / Editado por Marco A Fuentes P NACIONALES En Margarita realizan el Primer Encuentro Nacional de Conservación de Tortugas Marinas Fuente copyright(©): ultimasnoticias La Guaira y ciudad turca Gaziantep suscriben acuerdo de hermanamiento Fuente copyright(©): ultimasnoticias INTERNACIONALES El granelero…

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Caribbean sea 🌊 26/12/2023

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Nos atrevimos a ir a la playa en plena pandemia. De todas formas el agua estaba muy fría 🤣😬🇻🇪

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✯ Round 1 ✯ Match 113 ✯

The current flag of El Chaltén, Santa Cruz Province, Argentina

Propaganda:

None

vs.

The current flag of La Guaira, La Guaira, Venezuela

Propaganda:

I love how detailed the sun’s face is for no reason. It looks so creepy, and I love it.

Tournament Policies: ✯ Choose the flag that's more meaningful to you! ✯ Be respectful of place names and cultural symbols in your commentary! ✯ If you want to submit propaganda, you may do so at the submission form linked in the pinned post. It will only be included if it is submitted before the next post with that flag is drafted and will be included in all subsequent posts the flag is featured in.

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GANAMOS LA SERIE DEL CARIBEEEE SJJDDJDJDJDJKFKFGLGMGGM

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Simon Bolivar school ship, Venezuela: Simón Bolívar is a training vessel for the Venezuelan Navy. She sails from the home port of La Guaira and is a frequent participant in tall ship events. She is named after Simón Bolívar, the liberator of Bolivia, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Panama and Venezuela. Wikipedia

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Se volvió a ir la luz, he perdido la cuenta de cuántas veces se ha ido estos días. En esta oportunidad algo explotó, sonó horrible, asumo que fue un transformador, pero se los juro que en este punto siento que nos están castigando.

No puedo trabajar con tranquilidad porque mi trabajo depende de que mínimo tenga luz e internet. Tampoco puedo descansar porque hay calor y no se puede conectar ni un maldito ventilador.

Y lo más arrecho es que ni un maldito reporte se puede poner en esta mierda sin que uno dependa de tener la desgraciada aplicación que usan los chavistas para sapear opositores... A través de la cual después te preguntan que si votaste por Maduro para ver si te atienden o no.

Pero mientras estas cosas pasan porque nuestra infraestructura eléctrica está contra el suelo, ya levantaron nuevamente una estatua de Chávez en La Guaira, porque para eso sí hay plata.

Estoy cansada de esta mierda.

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Boqueron Railway line between la Guaira and Caracas, Venezuela

Venezuelan vintage postcard

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The Missing Link of the July 28th Election

The night of the July 28th election, hundreds of thousands of people saw the actas, and not only the opposition’s witnesses who kept copies.

What follows are three stories that break the silence: two from PSUV electoral witnesses and one from a community leader from the chavista grassroots. We’ll call them Karla, Daria, and María Eugenia.

Karla

Karla extends her arm and shows an acta from July 28. She searched frantically through the folders and papers piled on the living room table in her apartment, on Venezuela’s central coast. She had stored it so carefully that she forgot the exact spot where she placed it the morning after the election, after having served as an electoral witness for PSUV at a voting center in the city of La Guaira.

“This is the fifth election I’ve worked as a PSUV witness. I’m a registered party member and a spokesperson for the UBCH (Units of Battle Hugo Chávez, a grassroots PSUV organization) in my area,” she says, waving the tally sheet like a white flag seeking a truce.

For Karla, everything she’s achieved is linked to her involvement with the Bolivarian Revolution. She graduated from the Misión Ribas—an early government program to expand the access to high school education—and kept studying thanks to Misión Sucre, a similar program to grant access to university-level education focused on a social agenda. Karla then moved from an overcrowded annex, to the apartment where she now lives, also provided by the Venezuelan government. She has worked for a decade in the public sector, at a ministry-affiliated organization.

She believed these elections would be no different from the others—that they would win and celebrate, collect the tally sheets and deliver them to the local electoral coordinator, conduct the audit, and be done. But that’s not what happened.

“After noon, it turned into a hateful day, full of odd tension. In my voting center, Maduro won by a few votes. But in La Guaira the opposition wiped us out. The other PSUV witnesses were posting the numbers in our WhatsApp group, and it was unbelievable. They beat the hell out of us.”

Then, CNE announced in its first bulletin that Maduro had won “irreversibly” with 51% of the votes. “How did we win?” Karla asks. “This is crazy. Chavismo always wins in La Guaira, and this time it didn’t happen.” She keeps asking herself questions. “Why do I feel so sad if we won?” “Why wasn’t there even a hint of celebration?” “Why, if we won, did they erase the WhatsApp evidence and forbid us, the witnesses, from talking about the election day?”

She asks out loud as she smooths the wrinkles in the tally sheet, without success. Karla believes that the country’s economic crisis was caused by international sanctions and the opposition. “But I also know that on our side, we’ve made plenty of mistakes, which is why so many people didn’t even want to vote. Filling that 1×10 list cost me blood, sweat, and tears,” she says, referring to the list of voters that PSUV required his witnesses and grassroots to complete.

In the weeks leading up to the election, she attended meetings with the regional PSUV leadership, where they were warned about alleged “destabilizing plans by the opposition.” Karla and others were told to “stay alert” and protect Maduro’s votes because the opposition had a plan to disrupt the tally, and that would be solved by showing the tally sheets.

Around 2:00 p.m. on election day, the coordinator at her center told everyone that “by orders from above,” they would only print one tally sheet per table, not one for each witness. Karla complained because she hadn’t been told this by the party, but the coordinator reminded her that they were on the same team and that she shouldn’t be foolish.

“But I refused. I wanted my tally sheet and for the opposition guy to get his, too. Because I’m chavista, but I don’t cheat. They (the party) had told us that having these sheets was the most important thing. That’s why I fought for the one from my table. Now they’re telling me that if I want to, I can throw it away. How can I be happy when I struggled to get that tally sheet and no one cares about it?”

She also didn’t like that, even though there were no voters at her center after 3:30 p.m., they kept it open until almost 6:00 pm. She remembers everything from that day. The vote count began, and her table’s tally sheet was printed at 7:12 pm. The opposition witnesses refused to leave until the data was transmitted. The machine technician said the transmission was slow, and people outside the center began pressuring them. After 9:00 p.m., they were told that the transmission had been completed successfully, and the WhatsApp group told them to go home.

That’s what she did. She went to bed with a headache, convinced they had lost the election. But when she woke up, she saw her WhatsApp groups flooded with messages saying they had won. “But no one was happy. There were lots of complaints directed at the grassroot leaders, the public employees…”

Another question haunts her:  “If we won, why were they demanding loyalty from us and reminding us that we don’t have official property documents for the apartments we’d been given? I thought: these people are making fools of themselves. Now, the ones who really didn’t vote for PSUV are going to hate us even more. That’s why I say it’s a victory filled with sadness and disappointment.”

Karla searched for the tally sheet from her table on the website where the opposition posted the ones collected by their witnesses. It’s identical to hers.

And again, what if…  

“If they uploaded the tally sheet where their candidate lost, and I know it’s real because I have it here, why should I doubt, or think that the others they uploaded are fake?”

She no longer knows what to think, though there’s one thing Karla says she’s sure of: people’s will must be respected because that’s what living in a democracy means.

“I don’t want to live in a dictatorship, even if I’m a PSUV member. I can be with PSUV, but I don’t think it’s right not to respect the votes of those who went out to vote. Everyone here knows I was a witness, and that’s why my neighbors look at me strangely, like I did something wrong. That’s why I don’t even want to keep the tally sheet at home anymore, because no one from PSUV has come to ask for it. If this is proof of the opposition’s cheating, if that alleged hacking really happened, why aren’t they coming to those of us who were witnesses to clarify this once and for all?

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Amanecer vía La guaira

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Venezuela's Supreme Court, which observers say is loyal to the government of President Nicolas Maduro, on Thursday declared him the winner of the disputed July 28 election despite opposition claims of widespread vote fraud. In its ruling, read by presiding judge Caryslia Rodriguez, the court said it had "indisputably certified election materials and validates the results of the July 28, 2024 presidential election issued by the National Electoral Council (CNE)," naming Maduro as the winner. Minutes later, opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia responded to the ruling by posting an image to social media saying "void." "The sovereignty of the people is not transferable," he said, accusing the court in a later video message of attempting to "please" Maduro. Speaking in the coastal state of La Guaira, Maduro hailed the Supreme Court's decision as "historic and forceful." Maduro had asked the court earlier this month to weigh in on the election, in which he claims to have defeated Gonzalez Urrutia with 52 percent of ballots cast, according to the CNE.

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Yes, well, when you control the court…

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Bonus Poll

The current flag of Stockholm, Sweden vs The current flag of La Guaira, La Guaira, Venezuela