Venezuela

Venezuela’s Supreme Court Of Justice Confirms Validity Of Maduro victory

August 23, 2024 People's Dispatch. Educate! Elections, Nicolas Maduro, Supreme Court, Venezuela

On August 22, Venezuela’s Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) confirmed the validity of the victory of President Nicolas Maduro in the 2024 Venezuelan presidential election on July 28. The TSJ issued a ruling on the appeal filed by Maduro, which affirmed that the results of the National Electoral Council (CNE), which indicated that Maduro won the elections with over 51% of the vote, were consistent with records from the voting machines. According to ALBA Movements, a platform of social and political organizations from across Latin America and the Caribbean, “The TSJ of Venezuela has certified in an unrestricted and unequivocal manner the results of the June 28 elections. This act reinforces the legitimacy and transparency of the electoral process in Venezuela.”

Real Democracy And Continental Integration

August 19, 2024 Cira Pascual Marquina, Venezuelanalysis. Strategize! Bolivarian Process, Democracy, Imperialism, Latin America, Venezuela

Continental integration has been a longstanding project in Latin America. It aims to overcome the balkanization that occurred in the wake of independence, which weakens the region geopolitically. This was a goal pursued by Simón Bolivar and José Marti in the 19th century and more recently by Fidel Castro and Hugo Chávez. In 2004, the latter two joined forces to found The Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America – Peoples’ Trade Treaty [ALBA-TCP], which works to build connections among the peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean. In this interview, we talk with Jorge Arreaza, Secretary of ALBA-TCP, about the past and present of Venezuela’s democratic project and about his hopes for South-South integration.

Venezuela: Far-Right’s ‘Great International Protest’ Fails

August 18, 2024 Orinoco Tribune. Educate! 2014 Elections, Far Right Politics, US Regime Change, Venezuela

Caracas and several cities in Venezuela witnessed a new round of demonstrations supporting the Bolivarian Revolution as well as a few small far-right demonstrations called by those who got defeated in the presidential elections held on July 28 but claim victory nonetheless. The low turnout in the opposition demonstrations contrast sharply with their claim of having received 7.3 million of votes in the presidential elections. The “massive” march promised by the far right for this Saturday, August 17, was a clear failure. The call for protests was unable to attract large crowds in Caracas and other cities as planned, despite the calls of María Corina Machado and an army of influencers and paid journalists on social media platforms asking Venezuelans to join the marches.

Washington Contradicts Itself Again Over Venezuela’s Elections

August 16, 2024 Ana Perdigón, Orinoco Tribune. Educate! Elections, Joe Biden, Media, National Electoral Council, US Imperialism, Venezuela

The White House has reversed the statement made by US President Joe Biden, in which he declared that he supported the proposal to run a new election in Venezuela, continuing the zigzag of the imperial line on its statements regarding the Latin American nation. Biden was questioned by a journalist this Thursday, August 15, about whether he “supported new elections in Venezuela,” to which the US president, in a newly overt display of interventionism, replied, “Yes, I do.” The White House then had to reverse their president’s statement and “clarify” what the US president supposedly meant.

CNN’s Fraudulent Analysis Of Fraud In The Venezuelan Presidential Election

August 15, 2024 Allan Miller and Roger D. Harris, Popular Resistance. Educate! CNN, Elections, Propaganda, US Regime Change, Venezuela

In the quarter century of the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela, initiated by the election of Hugo Chávez and continued by his successor Nicolás Maduro, 31 national elections have been held. Invariably, the US-backed opposition claimed fraud in all but the two contests that they won. Equally unvaryingly has been the corporate press’s supporting and indeed embellishing of the claims of fraud as described below. The moment that Venezuela’s election authority (CNE in its Spanish initials) reported that incumbent Maduro had prevailed in the July 28 presidential contest over his nearest challenger, Edmundo González, howls of fraud were to be heard throughout the world’s corporate press.

Venezuela Under Cyberattack: Over 106 State Institutions Targeted

August 15, 2024 Orinoco Tribune. Educate! Cyber Attack, Government, US Regime Change, Venezuela

Over 106 state institutions have been subjected to cyber attacks in Venezuela since July 28—the date of the Venezuelan presidential elections—according to reports from the Venezuelan minister for science and technology, Gabriela Jiménez. In an interview on the programme Aquí y Ahora—broadcast by the news outlet La IguanaTV—Jiménez explained that these attacks have increased since last Monday, August 12, when the National Defense Council and the Council of State met to establish the National Cybersecurity Council. She explained that these attacks have been designed specifically to target government institutions, and thus steal information from the state.

Venezuelans Defend Their Revolution Against Another US Coup Attempt

August 12, 2024 Margaret Flowers, Clearing the FOG. Podcast - Clearing The FOG Bolivarian Revolution, Coup Attempt, Elections, US Regime Change, Venezuela

On July 28, Venezuelans re-elected President Nicolas Maduro for another term despite US interference in their electoral process and subsequent attempts to delegitimize the process. The United States government has refused to recognize President Maduro, instead claiming without evidence that an opposition candidate, Edmundo Gonzalez, was the winner, a tactic reminiscent of the Juan Guaido charade. Clearing the FOG speaks with Venezuelan political analyst Maria Paez Victor about the Bolivarian Revolution, the most recent US-backed coup attempt, media attacks, and how Venezuelans have prepared to protect their deep democracy and social gains.

Venezuela: It Was A US-Led Coup All Along

August 11, 2024 Francisco Domínguez, Orinioo Tribune. Educate! Coups, Elections, US Imperialism, Venezuela

Despite a monstrous internationally-coordinated, and grotesquely false media campaign of fake news that repeatedly quoted CIA-linked “pollsters” giving extreme right-wing candidate, Edmundo Gonzalez, percentages of up to 80 percent of the vote and all supplemented by a propaganda campaign threatening violence, voiced principally by media-lionised, far-right politician, Maria Corina Machado, on July 28, 2024, the people of Venezuela calmly but solidly voted to continue the Bolivarian process by re-electing Nicolas Maduro for the 2025-2031 period. President Maduro’s victory as in the first CNE bulletin with 80% of the ‘voting records’ (tally sheets) in was 51.2 percent, against Gonzalez 44.2 percent, then confirmed by the CNE second Bulletin with 97 percent of the voting records, Maduro with 52 percent (6,408,844 votes) and Gonzalez with 43 percent (5,326,104 votes.).

Media Coverage of Venezuela’s Election Normalizes US Interference

August 10, 2024 Roger D. Harris and Peter Bolton, Popular Resistance. Educate! Elections, Media, US Interference, Venezuela

Corporate media's coverage of Venezuela’s July 28 presidential election is akin to an investigation of a homicide that is focused not with identifying the murderer but with an unpaid parking ticket of the victim. Likewise, the media has shifted the narrative into the minutia of electoral procedures, ignoring the much larger issue of US interference in the internal affairs of another sovereign county. Nowhere in the corporate media is there even an inkling that US-imposed regime-change activities in Venezuela or elsewhere might violate some basic principles. Ours is a homeland where the likes of George Clooney and Melinda Gates have the prerogative, because they are rich, to demand that a sitting president abandon his reelection bid.

US-Based Activists Mobilize To Say Hands Off Venezuela!

August 10, 2024 People's Dispatch. Resist! coup, Coups, Elections, Media, New York Times (NYT), Nicolas Maduro, Regime Change, US Imperialism, Venezuela

On August 9, as a part of an international call to action issued by ALBA Movimientos, the Simon Bolivar Institute, the Assembly of Caribbean Peoples, and the International Peoples’ Assembly to support Venezuela against US and mainstream media support for the attempted coup against President Nicolas Maduro, dozens of activists gathered in front of the New York Times building in New York City. The newspaper is notorious for backing undemocratic coups in Venezuela. Since the election of Maduro, the New York Times has joined the US government and right-wing governments across Latin America in openly questioning Venezuela’s verifiable election results.

Venezuela Is A Marvellous Country In Motion

August 9, 2024 Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Educate! Coup Attempt, Elections, Social Movements, US Interference, Venezuela

I have been in Caracas, Venezuela, for the past two weeks, before and after the presidential election on 28 July. In the run-up to the election, two things became clear to me. First, the Chavistas (supporters of Hugo Chávez and the Bolivarian project that is now led by President Nicolás Maduro) have the enormous advantage of an organised mass base. Second, knowing that the odds were not in their favour, the opposition, led by far-right María Corina Machado and the US government, were already signalling defeat before the election even took place by alleging that it would be fraudulent.

US Rejection Of Venezuela’s Democracy Vindicates Trump

August 9, 2024 Ajamu Baraka, Black Agenda Report. Educate! Democracy, Elections, Trump, US Imperialism, Venezuela

The dust-up on January 6, 2021, was nothing compared to an opposition in Venezuela calling for the nation’s military forces to ignore the declaration of state authorities recognizing the result of their electoral process. Instead. they collaborated with external powers involved in ongoing illegal actions to undermine the state and its democratically elected leadership. Even Donald Trump didn’t attempt to institute a similar course of action following the 2020 elections. And even if he wanted to, it would not have been effective since then Joint Chief of Staff, Mark Milley, inserted himself into the local security decision-making process in order to countermand any orders coming from Trump. Talk about a coup!

People’s Movements Worldwide Launch Campaign Of Solidarity With Venezuela

August 9, 2024 People's Dispatch. Resist! Elections, Nicolas Maduro, Social Movements, Solidarity, South Africa, Venezuela

On August 9, the ALBA Movimientos, a platform of social and political movements from across the Americas and the Caribbean, the International Peoples’ Assembly, the Simon Bolivar Institute, and the Assembly of Caribbean Peoples, launched a campaign titled: “For Democracy and Sovereignty: Hands Off Venezuela!” The campaign comes in the aftermath of Venezuela’s presidential election and a wave of seemingly coordinated attacks from right-wing political actors, mainstream media, and US and its allies. The launch document states that, for several months, a media campaign has been created to question the legitimacy of the elections in the Caribbean country.

Maduro, An Expert In Defense And Counterattack

August 8, 2024 Clodovaldo Hernández, Venezuelanalysis. Strategize! Elections, Nicolas Maduro, US Intervention, Venezuela

One of the few advantages of being a country systematically besieged with increasing intensity for more than a quarter of a century is that its leaders become increasingly adept at defense and counterattack. This is one of the conclusions that can be drawn from the events following the Venezuelan presidential elections of July 28, which are still unfolding. The actions taken by the adversaries of the Bolivarian revolution have been countered one by one, so far with a favorable balance for the re-elected president, Nicolás Maduro. The Parallel Government Strategy One of the key maneuvers was the statement by Secretary of State Antony Blinken, recognizing opposition candidate Edmundo González Urrutia as the winner of the elections, openly contradicting the official result given by the only competent body in the matter, the National Electoral Council (CNE), which proclaimed Maduro the winner.

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