#maduro win

[thoughtlessarse]

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Venezuela opposition leader Maria Corina Machado said on Monday (29 July) the country’s opposition has 73.2% of the voting tallies from Sunday’s election, allowing it to prove election results it says give it a victory. The national electoral authority has proclaimed incumbent President Nicolás Maduro the winner of the vote, giving him a third term in office and extending 25 years of socialist party rule. But independent pollsters called that result implausible, and opposition leaders and foreign observers urged the electoral authority to release vote tallies. 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 Edmundo 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. Witnesses assigned to observe vote counts have a right to a copy of each voting machine’s tally, but the opposition said overnight that some witnesses were blocked from following counts and that at other sites the tallies were not printed.

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[creativemedianews]

Venezuelan opposition leader claims Maduro will leave as election protests grow

Venezuelan opposition leader claims Maduro will leave as election protests grow #Madurowins #oppositionleader

[gaviymarcsbride]

Y’all I genuinely urge you to stay up to date with world politics.

In my country, Venezuela, elections have just been held and the blatant disrespect that the so called government have for their people is astonishing.

How can they claim that Nicolas Maduro, one of the most hated dictators of our time, won 51%/5+ million votes?

How is it possible that he won when the voting panels have been updating every hour how Edmundo Gonzalez (the opposing candidate) has been winning by TRIPLE the vote?

How is it possible that most of the 7.3 million Venezuelan immigrants can’t vote and have no say in what goes on the country that gave them life?

How is it possible that Venezuelans have to fear for their life in voting stations because the military are set there to prevent them from voting?

How is it possible that the pig that’s called president is currently celebrating his “well-earned” victory?

Countries like Chile and Peru are already making statements that they will not recognize the results given by the CNE (the Venezuelan electoral system)

FREAKING ELON MUSK IS MAKING TWEETS REGARDING THE SITUATION

I think it’s sickening how all people can do is talk about it and not do a single thing about it, especially because as a society we try to condemn any harm to human rights just like how we did Russia, who by the way, is one of the dictatorships biggest supporters.

VENEZUELA HAS BEEN FACING AN HUMANITARIAN CRISIS!!!!

People have been facing literal hell since the late 90s and people in power DO. NOT. CARE.

Educate yourself, educate others, and most importantly TALK ABOUT IT, because I’m certain we’re not the first or the last country to go through this.

This is as much as I’ll say.

I hope they all rot in hell.

🇻🇪

[itwaslegendary]

Since I’m not seeing many posts about what’s happening in Venezuela, I will make one myself. Please do not turn a blind eye to their ongoing crisis.

First I will put you into context, please note that all this information is taken from posts, threads and statements made by Venezuelans so I will hyperlink each one of my sources.

From 2002 to 2013, Hugo Chávez was the president of Venezuela. Not only did he ruin the country’s economy, imprison people and remove liberty of speech in the country, but he also changed the constitution, allowing unlimited reelection. His regime became a dictatorship disguised as a democracy. Here’s an entire page about this period. (And you can read more searching “chavismo”)

After his death in 2013, Nicolás Maduro took the presidency. Venezuelans started protesting and, as a response, they were repressed and killed, universities were burned down and Venezuela became massively poor, people lacked basic needs (supermarkets were empty, increasing famine and malnutrition), hospitals lacked resources and, consequently, illnesses spread and infant mortality rates increased severely.

This Sunday, July 28th, 2024, elections were held and Venezuelans voted for Edmundo González to be the next president of the country. Exit polls expected him to win the elections.

Later, the revealed results were that Maduro had won with the 51,2% votes, while Edmundo González had only 44,2%. But, as of right now, already 75% of the electoral records confirm that Edmundo González was, in fact, the chosen candidate, meaning that Maduro once again cheated on the elections. This is electoral fraud. This is not a democracy, this is a dictatorship.

Now, Venezuelans are protesting and the government are once again repressing them. Civilians are being persecuted, attacked and killed. Innocent people are being arrested. The government is cutting their communication and are planning on cutting the electricity next.

I urge you to check this thread on Twitter by @/postmortemria. Her account is full of information about Venezuela and their crisis, please check her posts and share them to spread the voice. Try to raise Venezuelans’ voices and donate to them if you can.

At the moment, there aren’t many ways to help other than speaking up, but under this tweet you can find many talented artists and commissions are their way to make some money to pay for basic human needs. If you can, think about commissioning a piece or donating to them.

In addition, here’s another tweet with information to donate to the people affected in the protests. They’re in desperate need of assistance so anything can help.

[firstroseofspring]

rice beans chicken + plantain unbeatable combo. im on cloud 9 actually

[karokawwo]

dominicans are lowkey stupid too why tf do so many people think trump winning is a good thing

quick question are americans stupid

[pinkgy]

URGENT

Please keep reading this, and if you can, please share this and anything related to this topic, we NEED visibility.

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

[harleiquina]

All our simpathy for our venezuelan siblings 💔

It is discouraging, but you need to stay strong! ✊🏻 We are all children of the Revolution that kicked out Spain! Don't let them break your spirit, they are counting on it.

And for those cabeza de termo that keep sending me Asks to insult me after "outing" myself as an "alt-right" for celebrating that my country got rid of the argentinian version of a dictatorship disguised as a democracy AKA the Kirchnerismo and are probably celebrating "Maduro's triumph" just because he claims to be a Socialist.

How does it feel to be the fachos for thousands of people that are either starving, disappearing (yes, like the Desaparecidos we had), apretados and fleeing their country because you just can't live there either out of fear or because there is no quality of life to do so?

Are you really happy for a power-hunger maniac that is commiting the worst of all crimes which is betraying his own people?

And you call yourselves "The Left"? Gimme a fucking break.

I would say I am surprised by the results of the elections in Venezuela, but I'm not. At this point I'm jus apathetic to it. Did I went and do my part? Sure, but not because I suddenly was confident on the electoral system.

At this point I've already cried, protested, gotten gassed, almost arrested, voted and nothing has worked. There were people who waited in lines for over 5-6 hrs to be able to vote. Some voting centers were opened well after noon. People in Zulia had to cross the Lago de Maracaibo in small boats 'cause the bridge and the roads were closed to prevent them from voting. Government supporters were showing up at voting centers demanding to scan people's IDs (this is not part of the voting proccess in Venezuela). While in previous elections voting centers have been allowed to remain open until well after 10pm, last night the police and the Colectivos were trying to get people to leave by 7:30pm.

All that is without mentioning that no international observers were allowed to come and witness the elections. Not even one. So, please, again... To all the people who've accused me of being a CIA agent and wanting a USA military invasion in Venezuela, tell me how this is democratic and how is normal and justified.

[trollexswife]

Information. | Context. | Summary.

Brief interruption of general content, I have to speak on this! I am from Venezuela, raised there as a child and forced to migrate to the U.S due to the torture Nicolás Maduro has done to my country.

Now because of the recent election, people in my country are protesting and pleading for help. Nicolás Maduro did not win, he committed FRAUD. He is a genocidal rich corrupt monster who does NOT care for his people nor the people of Palestine! Do not fall for his lies!! Anti-capitalist does NOT suddenly = GOOD!

These two are canonically Venezuelan, they are just like me and so many others, and I yearn to see my country and my family again. They have been starved and killed, I miss my home, please help and get educated!! Please read the links tagged. I am not well versed enough to be able to spread information, but please take a look through the #Venezuela tag. We need your help!!! Fuerza Venezuela! Venezuela Libre!!!

[thoughtlessarse]

President Nicolas Maduro has been declared the winner of Venezuela’s presidential election, even as his opponents were preparing to dispute the results. The dispute sets up a high-stakes showdown that will determine whether the South American nation transitions away from one-party rule. Elvis Amoroso, head of the National Electoral Council, said Mr Maduro secured 51% of the vote, overcoming opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez, who garnered 44%. He said the results were based on 80% of voting stations, marking an irreversible trend. It came as opposition leaders were celebrating, online and outside a few voting centres, what they saw as a landslide victory for Mr Gonzalez. Their hope was boosted by exit polls – which are not allowed under Venezuelan law – showing a healthy margin of victory for Mr Gonzalez. The delay in announcing results — six hours after polls were supposed to close — indicated a deep debate inside the government about how to proceed after Mr Maduro’s opponents came out early in the evening all but claiming victory. The electoral authority, which is controlled by Maduro loyalists, has yet to release the official voting tallies from each of the 30,000 polling centres, hampering the opposition’s ability to verify the results.

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[creativemedianews]

Maduro wins Venezuela election by government-controlled authority

Maduro wins Venezuela election by government-controlled authority #government-controlledauthority #Madurowins

[qqueenofhades]

Having seen what's currently happening in Venezuela, I feel so terrible for everyone to tried to vote Maduro out, and I worry about the US election. Will Trump and the GOP be able to do the same thing??

I agree that what's happening in Venezuela is bad and scary, but it's also not unexpected (unfortunately), and it doesn't correlate to the US election. It is very much a cautionary tale for us, but in the case of what could happen, not what has happened yet (and which we could and MUST still avoid). Here's why I think that.

First, Maduro is the heir of 25+ years of dictatorship (first the Chavez regime and then his), and that political machine has had a full generation to fix/control everything in Venezuela just as they want it. They've collapsed the economy, driven mass emigration/purges/brain drains, installed corrupt systems and destroyed civil society, staffed the government with cronies who will only ever do what Maduro personally says -- etc. In other words, exactly what Trump and the Republicans aspire to do here in America, but with 25 years' head start, so all those fixes are well entrenched. Outside observers were also warning well ahead of the Venezuelan vote that even an overwhelming majority for the opposition candidate might not be enough, because Maduro and co. can just fix the result however they want with imaginary fantasy numbers. (See Putin's "win" in the Russian presidential "election.") Because dictators all draw from the same playbook regardless of their professed ideological temperament, they always use the same tools.

Next, voting in Venezuela is all-electronic, which is obviously the easiest kind of voting to jigger, and which means that whatever the people actually select has little to no relevance to what gets published, recorded, or proclaimed. Now, despite the Republicans' constant screaming about ELECTION FRAUD, the 2020 elections in America were widely hailed as the safest, most accurate, and fraud-free in the nation's history. (For that matter, multiple investigations afterward have re-confirmed this, and the tiny handful of cases of election fraud that were found were committed by, you guessed it, Republicans.) This did not happen because of the Orange Fuhrer and co., who were busy trying to commit election fraud on their own behalves, but because America, however flawed, is still a participatory liberal democracy and citizens have the right to engage and to do so in a meaningful fashion. We had the entire investigation about how Russia meddled with the election in 2016, and changes were made. Cybersecurity experts were brought in; redundancies and failsafes were introduced; etc., and even the Russian campaign focused on psychological influence rather than actually, physically changing already-cast votes, because that is very, very hard to do in America. We are not an all e-voting nation; there are paper trails, hard-copy ballots, hand recounts, poll observers, election lawyers, and multiple other safeguards that exist. The Republicans have been attacking them as hard as they can, but they're still there.

Thirdly, the Evil Orange tried to fix the elections when he was the sitting president (don't forget the infamous "find me 11,780 votes" phone call to the Georgia Secretary of State that got him slapped with felony charges), but he couldn't do it even then. He also tried a coup as the sitting president, with full discretion as to whether, for example, the National Guard should be deployed to the Capitol on January 6, and that didn't succeed. As such, when he's a disgraced jobless felon who is not the commander-in-chief of the American military and holds no official or political role, he's definitely not getting it done now. There were reforms made to the Electoral Count Act to prevent another January 6, Biden and not Trump would be the president at any other attempted attack on the counting of electoral votes, and I can guarantee Biden would not sit around for three hours watching Fox News and cheering the rioters on if such a thing happened again. Trump has been threatening violence again because that's the only move in his playbook, and he wants to intimidate people into voting for him out of fear that he'll attack them if they don't give him what he wants, like any other psychopathic bully. But that does not mean he actually has the tools to successfully carry it off, and honestly, motherfucker? Try it one more fucking time. I double fucking dog dare you. Biden has 6 months left in his term and total immunity, according to your own SCOTUS. So.

Basically, Venezuela has already been a banana republic for 20+ years, the dictator has had a full generation to destroy it/remake it/turn it into his personal fiefdom, he allows elections only because he already knows they won't change anything or actually remove him from power, and that is precisely what Trump wants to do in the US -- but, and this is crucial, has not done yet. Which is why it is so, so important to Orange-Proof America and get rid of him once and for fucking all on November 5th. We can do it. So yes.

[reality-detective]

The Democrats control: 👇

The internet

The search engines

Social media

The voting machines

The vote counting

The companies that print the ballots.

The media that tells people what to think.

The part of the country that believes EVERY LIE THEY TELL.

AND THE COURTS THAT DECIDE WHETHER AN ELECTION WAS FAIR OR NOT.

There are INFINITE ways for them to get around accepting "TRUMP WINS" in November.

The easiest one is to just DENY that he won.

Maduro just did it in Venezuela

America, BRACE FOR IMPACT. 🤔

[juiciest-candy]

Sorry for saying this here but keeping it inside and not being able to talk about it with anyone really makes me feels like I’m gonna explode

Anyway if you are a gringo who supports Gaza, Congo, Sudan or any other humanitarian cause but is turning a blind eye to Venezuela I hope you die a painful death and suffer for the rest of you life. All you are is a performative activist who wants to be perceived as a good person with morals, but you are nothing more than scum

Ya’ll support the dictatorship only bc it’s communist and anti American, you have so romanticized the idea of communism that you think it’s the solution to every problem in the world when communism is literally the problem, I can tell you, I lived through it but you will never understand, you will continue to idealize it bc it’s easier to do so when you haven’t had family and friends struggling to find food or medicine, you have never experienced power outages that lasted a whole week, bc you haven’t seen hospitals using plastic bottles for IV drips bc there aren’t bags, bc you have never seen people of every social status eat out of the trash, bc you havent seen your brothers and sisters starve to death so just shut up

Stop supporting a dictatorship and stop supporting Maduro. His “free Palestine” comment is nothing more than him getting sympathy points from you and you are actually that fucking stupid to fall for it, it’s funny to think your brain is full of nothing but worms. A man who hurts his own people, who sends them to torture chambers, who kills them for opposing him, who starves them, who lets them die in hospitals, who rigs every election so he can win, who caused a mass exodus of 7 million people is not innocent. Hell is not hot enough for him and it won’t be hot enough for you either if you keep supporting him

Stop talking like you know what you are saying, all you are is a privileged asshole with a savior complex who’s doing absolutely nothing. Support Venezuelan voices and don’t talk above us, listen to us and support us that’s the only thing we want. Don’t oppress us the same way we are being oppressed, if you have a savior complex at least use it for something good

This mess started 25 years ago and I’m 24, I’ve never seen a free Venezuela, what gives you the right to tell ME I’m wrong? Communism is a desease and you are part of it if you support it

Free Venezuela 🇻🇪

[mariacallous]

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.

[tanadrin]

I'm calling it now: Maduro threatens Guyana to try to force concessions. A secret deal with India results in the INS Vikramadatiya being sent to the Caribbean, which Biden, in a fit of senility, declares a violation of the Monroe Doctrine, starting a US-India war. BJP sleeper agent Kamala Harris lets their assassination squad into the White House, where they get eaten by Major, but Biden dies anyway in a hail of friendly fire from the Secret Service. Trump wins election in 2024, and thinking he'll nuke Venezuela for the hell of it, orders a strike on the capital. But he confuses "Caracas" for "Kaliningrad," because his dementia is even more advanced than Biden's, leading to a strategic exchange with Russia that ends industrial civilization for the next 250 years.