#Tarek William Saab

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Venezuela's top prosecutor on Monday opened a criminal investigation into opposition presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez and the opposition party's leader Maria Corina Machado.

Attorney General Tarek William Saab said the investigation was tied to an open letter the two members of the opposition released earlier Monday.

In the letter, both Gonzalez and Machado called on the armed forces to abandon their support for Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and to stop repressing demonstrators.

What did the opposition duo say in the open letter?

"We urge you to prevent the regime from unleashing its rampage against the people and to respect, and ensure that others respect, the results of the July 28 elections," the opposition duo said in the letter.

They wrote Maduro "carried out a coup d'etat that contradicts the constitutional order and wants to make you his accomplices."

Attorney General Tarek William Saab’s statement said the duo “falsely announced a winner of the presidential election other than the one proclaimed by the National Electoral Council, the only body qualified to do so" and they openly incited "police and military officials to disobey the laws."

Gonzalez's and Machado's written appeal shows the alleged commission of various crimes including usurpation of functions, dissemination of false information to cause fear and conspiracy, Saab said.

Thousands arrested over the weekend in Venezuela

Maduro announced Saturday that his government had arrested some 2,000 opponents, sparking concerns from leaders around the world, including presidents of European countries.

Both Gonzalez and Machado have also gone into hiding as of Sunday, with Maduro threatening to lock them up.

Authorities have declared Maduro the victor in the July 28 elections but have yet to produce full voting tallies to prove he won. The opposition claims to have tally sheets showing it won.

rm/jsi (Reuters, dpa)

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Venezuela'nın Filistin'e Destek Mesajı

Venezuela’dan Filistin’e Destek Mesajı Venezuela’nın Devlet Başkanı Nicolás Maduro, ülkesinde özel bir radyo kanalında gündeme dair önemli değerlendirmelerde bulundu. Konuşmasında, Filistin halkıyla dayanışma içinde olduklarını vurgulayan Maduro, Filistin’in özgürleşmesi gerektiğinin altını çizdi. İsrail’in Gazze’de bir yılı aşkın süredir sürdürdüğü soykırıma dikkat çeken Maduro, “Filistin’in…

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El Asesinato del Capitán de Corbeta Rafael Acosta Arévalo

El Asesinato del Capitán de Corbeta Rafael Acosta Arévalo por Rodulfo González Aunque en Venezuela existe desde el 22 de julio de 2013 una Ley Especial para Prevenir y Sancionar la Tortura y Otros Tratos Crueles, Inhumanos o Degradantes, hasta el 30 de enero de 2020 los cuerpos de represión de la narcodictadura de Nicolás Maduro torturaron hasta producir su muerte a 72 prisioneros. En septiembre…

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Entrevista con Francisco "Kiko" Bautista por Globovision

"Aquí no hay impunidad, 2109 acusados a partir del 2017 hasta la fecha; han sido privados de libertad 868 funcionarios y 62 colaboradores para un total de 930".

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El Asesinato del Capitán de Corbeta Rafael Acosta Arévalo

El Asesinato del Capitán de Corbeta Rafael Acosta Arévalo por Rodulfo González Aunque en Venezuela existe desde el 22 de julio de 2013 una Ley Especial para Prevenir y Sancionar la Tortura y Otros Tratos Crueles, Inhumanos o Degradantes, hasta el 30 de enero de 2020 los cuerpos de represión de la narcodictadura de Nicolás Maduro torturaron hasta producir su muerte a 72 prisioneros. En septiembre…

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Familia de Kalinina Ortega denuncia que nadie les atiende en Fiscalía

Familia de Kalinina Ortega denuncia que nadie les atiende en Fiscalía

La periodista fue asesinada y enterrada en su propia casa en septiembre de 2016. El 27 de febrero de 2022, encontraron su cadáver luego de seis años “desaparecida“ Un caso que engrosa la lista de crímenes no resueltos Los familiares de la periodista asesinada, Kalinina Ortega, no terminan de cerrar el doloroso ciclo que se inició en 2016 con su desaparición. Después de seis años de búsqueda, de…

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Maduro, no te vistas, que no vas

Version al inglés Después de un viaje maratónico de más de 20 horas hasta Kazán, donde, en su intento desesperado de ser incluido en el BRICS, ante Rusia y China se volvió un acordeón; todo lo que consiguió fue un saludo adecentado de cortesía. No aplicó. Países miembros del BRICS: Brasil, Rusia, India, China y Sudáfrica, se ha ampliado a nueve miembros con la integración de Irán, Egipto,…

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Venezuela has been polarized almost since the election of Hugo Chávez in 1998, but last Sunday’s stolen presidential vote shows the rift has changed. Previously, it was between middle- and upper-class citizens who opposed Presidents Chávez and Nicolás Maduro and those leaders’ base, the poor. Now the rift is between a majority of citizens and Maduro’s discredited, autocratic government. Residents from the poor neighborhoods that ring Caracas are pouring into the capital to protest alongside the city’s better-off residents. To suppress them, Maduro and his government are unleashing their security apparatus, and as of Wednesday, government security and militia forces had arrested hundreds of protesters and killed more than a dozen people.

This is not a “civil war,” as Venezuelan Attorney General Tarek William Saab recently attempted to portray it—at least not in the traditional sense of citizens against fellow citizens. Instead, we are seeing the rising up of citizens against a government that, according to credible exit polls and opposition tallies of more than 80 percent of the ballots, stole an election from a popular presidential candidate, Edmundo González. There is no hard evidence to support the claim of the National Electoral Council (CNE)—packed with Maduro loyalists—that Maduro was reelected with 51 percent of the vote, to González’s 44 percent. And what’s certain is the division and turmoil revealed this week after the election are inimical to the social capital, stability, and predictability needed to rebuild the country’s battered economy.

Venezuelan citizens lined up for hours to cast their vote in Sunday’s presidential election. This demonstration of renewed faith in democracy followed decades of declining participation in voting, owing, in part, to the opposition’s abstentions. In preelection public opinion polls, more than 80 percent of registered voters said they wanted political change, and an almost equal number expressed an intent to vote. But Maduro never had any intention of allowing himself to be voted out of power.

Before and after, his government has displayed a refusal to adhere to standards of electoral transparency. Several months before the balloting, the CNE disinvited an election observation mission from the European Union. Days before the vote, Venezuelan authorities refused to allow ex-presidents from Argentina, Bolivia, Mexico, and Panama to fly to the country observe the elections. And after governments from Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Panama, Peru, and Uruguay questioned the results, the Maduro government announced that it would shutter those countries’ embassies in Caracas. The willingness to break diplomatic practice has shocked the foreign-policy community, especially in Venezuela’s own neighborhood; solidarity and dialogue are firmly ingrained in the region’s diplomatic DNA.

Of course, fellow autocratic governments in China, Cuba, Iran, Nicaragua, and Russia immediately recognized Maduro’s win. For some of them, like China, the reasons are in part financial—Beijing wants to keep its access to Venezuela’s oil. For others, it is more out of solidarity in defying international scrutiny of human rights and elections. Meanwhile, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, the EU, and the United States among others are calling on the government to release the paper ballots. But if the CNE never turns over the paper trail or if the evidence is demonstrated to be falsified, what those governments will or even can do is unclear. (A majority of governments denounced Maduro’s last election in 2018 as fraudulent with little effect, but since the opposition had boycotted the contest, the claims carried less import.)

Protests are likely to grow in the coming weeks, and the likelihood of broad international isolation—what one pro-government investor said at a recent conference in London would be just “some turbulence”—now looks more like a crash. Investors who bought distressed bonds after Venezuela defaulted on its debt are watching bond prices drop after rising in the weeks before the election. Energy companies in the United States and Europe that benefited from the U.S. liberalization of sanctions are now facing a possible return of those sanctions, and as Britain, the EU, and the United States discuss how to best punish the government and individuals within it for failing to meet Venezuela’s commitments under the 2023 Barbados Agreement to hold free and fair elections, there will likely be more targeted personal sanctions, too.

None of this bodes well for Maduro’s ability to maintain even his limited base of popular support, which includes corrupt businesses, politicians, and security officers. Further repression will likely follow. While China and Russia have pledged their support for the Maduro government, neither has the capacity to keep Venezuela’s battered economy afloat.

Whatever happens to Maduro’s government, the chaos and the economic pain it will inflict likely spell the end of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) and the Bolivarian project that Chavez founded in 1998. There was a slim, perhaps unrealistic, hope among international diplomats and observers that more forward-thinking members of the government and party would consider their political future in a democratic Venezuela should a popular uproar follow a stolen election. That hope has vanished. For the majority of Venezuelans who supported González and had their hopes dashed, the PSUV will be associated with theft and cruelty, even more so than in the past. The legacy of Chavismo will be remembered for this.

The situation in Venezuela cries out for international mediation to restore order and defend the rights of Venezuelan citizens. The center-left governments of Colombia and Brazil could be well positioned to convene such a process.

But next steps are deeply unclear. Nor is it obvious after the Maduro government cut ties to neighboring governments that dared to question the results whether Brazil and Colombia would be able to maintain ties to the strategically thin-skinned PSUV regime should they criticize it.

The violence in recent days committed by state security forces and pro-government private militias—the colectivos—should preclude the government from staying in office, even if the opposition is declared victorious and is constitutionally sworn in on Jan. 10, 2025. Oddly, the Maduro government has called for a national dialogue. But an immediate change of government is necessary, if even a transitional government. That will first require understanding that instead of simple political polarization or even a civil war, a government has instead waged war on its own citizens and their popular will.

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Fernando del Rincon killing Tarek William Saab (general attorney of Venezuela) on international television

Me, watching this:

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Holis gente de latinotiktok espero que estén bien. Están circulando noticias sobre una supuesta orden de captura a Maria Corina Machado y Edmundo Gonzalez. Recuerden verificar las fuentes de estas noticias, ninguna pone ningún link a un comunicado oficial del Fiscal General Tarek William Saab o video de alguna rueda de prensa diciendo esto, por lo que me di a la tarea de investigar un poquito.

Algunas notician citan al canciller de Costa Rica, efectivamente hay un video de Arnoldo André ofreciendo asilo político, pero por algún motivo está oculto. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zbj0u_Lhpf4] <- Ese es el link.

Lo que sí conseguí es el en vivo de la sesión ordinaria de la Asamblea Nacional de Venezuela del 30 de Julio 2024 es decir de ayer. [https://www.youtube.com/live/O-0cZS1hamY] <- A partir del 1:59:00, Jorge Rodríguez, miembro del oficialismo y presidente actual de la Asamblea Nacional de Venezuela, acusa a Maria Corina Machado y Edmundo González de enviar colectivos criminales a aterrorizar las calles y sugiere que deberían ser apresados por ser líderes de una conspiración en contra del gobierno. Entre otras cosas dice cosas como que "falsificar actas donde Maduro aparece como ganador sería muy fácil" (idk that kinda sus), afirma que pueden mostrar todas las actas del CNE en las que se cuenten "hasta los glóbulos rojos de los candidatos" sin embargo hasta el momento en que te mando este ask la totalidad de las actas no son públicas entonces ajá, califica a los grupos opositores de psicópatas (este hombre es psiquiatra, pa que sepan), afirma que las concentraciones y marchas contra los resultados son un montaje de la oposición, afirma que el CNE no requiere de testigos para declarar sus resultados, afirma que Edmundo González está sufriendo de demencia senil y por eso "piensa que en realidad ganó" y califica a Maria Corina Machado de asesina. También compara a la oposición en Venezuela con el franquismo en España y con el nazismo.

La sesión es mucho más larga que eso pero estaba buscando específicamente la fulana "orden de arresto" que comenzó a circular ayer y en ese ratico me tocó escuchar todo eso lol.

Esto es todo lo que he encontrado respecto a la fulana "orden" de arresto, es decir, hasta donde pude conseguir, no hay una orden de arresto firmada por el fiscal general o por Maduro en contra de Maria Corina Machado y Edmundo González, por lo que el mensaje este del canciller de Costa Rica es algo extraño, no sé cómo explicar esa parte, pero cabe recalcar que el video está oculto.

Pero si alguien tiene algo que pueda confirmar o denegar esto por favor difundir. Hay que combatir la desinformación.

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Venezuelan security forces fired tear gas and rubber bullets Monday at protesters challenging the reelection victory claimed by President Nicolás Maduro but disputed by the opposition and questioned abroad.

Thousands of people flooded the streets of several neighborhoods of the capital, chanting "Freedom, freedom!" and "This government is going to fall!"

Some ripped Maduro campaign posters from street posts and burned them.

AFP observed members of the national guard firing tear gas and rubber bullets at protesters, some wearing motorbike helmets and bandannas tied over their faces for protection. Some responded by throwing rocks back.

Maduro, 61, attended a meeting Monday at which the National Electoral Council (CNE) certified his reelection to a third six-year term until 2031.

He dismissed international criticism and doubts about the result of Sunday's voting, claiming Venezuela was the target of an attempted "coup d'etat" of a "fascist and counter-revolutionary" nature.

But opposition leader Maria Corina Machado later told reporters that a review of voting records available so far clearly showed that the next president "will be Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia," who took her place on the ballot after she was barred by Maduro-aligned courts.

The records showed a "mathematically irreversible" lead for Gonzalez Urrutia, she said, with 6.27 million votes to only 2.75 million for Maduro.

The elections were held amid widespread fears of fraud by the government and a campaign tainted by accusations of political intimidation.

Pollsters had predicted a resounding victory for the opposition.

In the early hours of Monday, the CNE said Maduro had won 51.2 percent of votes cast compared to 44.2 percent for Gonzalez Urrutia.

The opposition cried foul, prompting Attorney General Tarek William Saab to link Machado to an alleged cyber "attack" seeking to "adulterate" the results.

'Another fraud' 

The outcome sparked concern and calls for a "transparent" process from the United Nations, United States, European Union and several countries in Latin America.

The CNE has not provided a detailed breakdown of the result.

Allies including China, Russia and Cuba congratulated Maduro.

Gonzalez Urrutia, a 74-year-old former diplomat, on Monday acknowledged the deep discontent in society with the CNE results and vowed that "we will fight for our liberty."

Machado assured Venezuelans that "the leaders of the world" are validating the results, and called families to turn out Tuesday for "popular assemblies" nationwide to show support for a peaceful transition of power.

Nine Latin American countries called in a joint statement Monday for a "complete review of the results with the presence of independent electoral observers."

The US-based Carter Center, one of a few organizations allowed to bring observers into Venezuela, urged the CNE to immediately publish detailed polling station-level results.

Brazil and Colombia also urged a review of the numbers while Chile's president said the outcome was "hard to believe."

Peru recalled its ambassador and Panama said it was suspending relations with Venezuela.

Caracas hit back Monday, saying it was withdrawing diplomatic staff from Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Panama, Peru, the Dominican Republic and Uruguay for "interventionist actions and statements."

'Bloodbath' warning 

Independent polls had predicted Sunday's vote would end 25 years of "Chavismo," the populist movement founded by Maduro's socialist predecessor and mentor, the late Hugo Chavez.

Maduro has been at the helm of the once-wealthy oil-rich country since 2013. The last decade has seen GDP drop by 80 percent, pushing more than seven million of its 30 million citizens to emigrate.

He is accused of locking up critics and harassing the opposition in a climate of rising authoritarianism.

In the run-up to the election, he had warned of a "bloodbath" if he lost.

Ballots were cast on machines that sent electronic votes directly to a centralized CNE database.

The machines printed out paper receipts that were placed in a container and counted by hand as a backup measure meant to be open to public scrutiny.

The opposition had deployed about 90,000 volunteer election monitors nationwide.

Economic misery 

Sunday's election was the product of a deal reached last year between the government and opposition.

That agreement led the United States to temporarily ease sanctions imposed after Maduro's 2018 reelection, rejected as a sham by dozens of Latin American and other countries.

Sanctions were snapped back after Maduro reneged on agreed conditions.

Venezuela boasts the world's largest oil reserves but has seen severely diminished production capacity in recent years.

Most Venezuelans live on just a few dollars a month, and endure biting shortages of electricity and fuel.

Economic misery in the South American nation has been a major source of migration pressure on the southern border of the United States, where immigration is a major presidential election issue.

(AFP)

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"Just a few minutes ago our national political coordinator, Freddy Superlano, was kidnapped," The Voluntad Popular party wrote on X.

The opposition party called on the international community to denounce the escalation of repression in Venezuela and demanded the publication of electoral results of Sunday’s vote.

Venezuela’s Attorney General Tarek William Saab on Tuesday said 749 "criminals" had been arrested during the protests and faced charges of resisting authority or, "in the most serious cases, terrorism."

Protests by ruling party and opposition supporters are expected to take place in Venezuela on Tuesday in the wake of a disputed election victory by President Nicolas Maduro, with the opposition saying vote tallies show its candidate easily won.

Electoral authorities said on Monday that Maduro had won a third term with 51% of the vote, extending a quarter-century of socialist rule.

But the opposition said the 73% of voting tallies to which it has access showed opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez had won an unassailable victory, winning more than twice as many votes as Maduro.

"My dear Venezuelans, tomorrow we meet; as a family, organised, demonstrating the determination we have to make every vote count and defend the truth," opposition leader Maria Corina Machado said in a post on X late on Monday, calling for supporters to march on Tuesday.

Jorge Rodriguez, a ruling party lawmaker and Maduro's campaign manager, urged followers to take part in marches to the Miraflores presidential palace to support the government.

While Gonzalez has warned against violence, Rodriguez accused the opposition of stoking violence.

Speaking on Monday night, Maduro said that his government "knows how to confront this situation and defeat those who are violent," though he also said he supported peace.

Maduro - a 61-year-old former bus driver and foreign minister - took office on president Hugo Chavez's death in 2013 and his 2018 reelection is considered fraudulent by the United States and others, who call him a dictator.

Many Venezuelan voters despaired at news of another six-year term for Maduro, who has presided over an economic collapse, the migration of about a third of the population, and a sharp deterioration in diplomatic relations, crowned by sanctions imposed by the United States, the European Union and others which have crippled an already struggling oil industry.

Governments in Washington and around the world have called for a full tabulation of the votes, while 12 member nations of the Organization of American States are set to meet to discuss the election on Wednesday.

The tallies in possession of the opposition showed a total of 2.75 million votes for Maduro and 6.27 million for his rival, former diplomat Gonzalez, Machado said.

The numbers were sharply different to the 5.15 million votes the electoral authority said Maduro had won, compared to 4.45 million for Gonzalez.

Clashes between protesters and security forces were reported throughout the country on Monday, with tear gas fired to disperse crowds and at least two people killed.

In Coro, capital of Falcon state, protesters tore down a statue of Maduro's late mentor Hugo Chavez.

The Venezuelan Conflict Observatory, an advocacy group, reported more than 180 protests in 20 of the country's 23 states in a post on X.

"Numerous acts of repression and violence carried out by paramilitary collectives and security forces have been reported," it said.

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El movimiento hippie nació de una manifestación contracultural estadounidense en la década de los años 60, que luego se expandió al mundo entero y profesaba los valores del pacifismo, la preocupación por el medio ambiente y el rechazo al status capitalista.

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The Day After

The government called the presidential election for Maduro. Many question the results.

Roughly an hour after the opposition said that they only had access to 30% of the official voting tallies -a key document to audit the election results- because Venezuela’s election authority (CNE) had blocked the transmission of the results to the totaling center, the President of the CNE, Maduro hardliner Elvis Amoroso, announced these results: with 80% of the transmitted votes and with a participation of 59%, Nicolás Maduro won with 5,150,092 votes (51.20%); landing Edmundo González Urrutia in second place with 4,445,978 votes (44.2 %).

Also, Amoroso apologized for the delay. Although Venezuela’s elections system is quite efficient, the CNE still waited until midnight to give the results. Amoroso said the delay was due to some sort of sabotage and asked Maduro’s prosecutor general to open an investigation. Prosecutor Tarek William Saab had said before that he would be holding a press conference the next morning at 11 am.

One hour after message, María Corina Machado and González Urrutia talked to the press. “I’ll go first,” said Machado, “Venezuela has a new president elect in Edmundo González Urrutia. It was an overwhelming win… We won.”

“It was historic,” she continued, “four quick counts gave the same results as exit polls, and right now we have more than 40% of the official voting tallies that confirm it. Edmundo González Urrutia won with 70% of the vote against Maduro’s 30%. It’s the presidential election with the largest victory margin in Venezuelan history.”

Machado went on to say that “the whole international community knows what happened, but most importantly Venezuelans know… The members of Plan República, the military citizens, also know…”

Machado asked people to pressure until all official tallies have been printed and that they should stand behind the polling station witnesses.

González Urrutia concurred, and said that “their fight continues until the will of the Venezuelan people is respected.” When asked if they were calling people to the streets he said they weren’t, that this was a movement of peace.

Some international reactions: Anthony Blinken gave a message immediately after the results were made public and asked for a recount. Chile’s Gabriel Boric questioned the results and the Government of Costa Rica was very frontal in saying that what happened in Venezuela was a fraud. On the axis; Nicaragua, Cuba and Bolivia congratulated Maduro.

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🚨ULTIMAHORA: Ministerio Público abre investigación penal contra Maria Corina Machado y Edmundo González

El Ministerio Público acaba de publicar un comunicado en sus redes sociales oficiales de su cuenta en la red social X donde informa que abrirá una investigación penal contra Edmundo González y Maria Corina Machado.

El comunicado firmado por Tarek William Saab dice lo siguiente:

COMUNICADO

“El Ministerio Público de la República Bolivariana de Venezuela informa al país que como consecuencia de la difusión de un Comunicado por parte del ex candidato Edmundo González y la ciudadana María Corina Machado en donde al margen de la Constitución y la Ley, falsamente anuncian un ganador de las elecciones presidenciales distinto al proclamado por el Conseja Nacional Electoral, único órgano calificado para hacerlo, y en el cual se hace una abierta incitación a funcionarios policiales y militares a la desobediencia de las leyes; ha decidido abrir una investigación penal a ambos firmantes del írrito documento.

En el citado pronunciamiento se evidencia la presunta comisión de los delitos de Usurpación de Funciones, Difusión de Información Falsa para Causar Zozobra, Instigación a la Desobediencia de las Leyes, Instigación a la Insurrección, Asociación para Delinquir y Conspiración.

El Ministerio Público como titular de la acción penal, en su deber de ser garante de la paz y la estabilidad en el país, se mantendrá vigilante ante cualquier acto que implique la generación de violencia o zozobra en la población y que pretenda la reedición de eventos que han dejado dolorosas heridas en toda la familia venezolana”.

https://x.com/minpublicoven/status/1820577506539323721?s=46&t=ZTGiuLZGl40x2siwnFLFBw