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VoltaireNet by Thierry Meyssan has looked behind the scenes at the recent elections in Venezuela given all the Western main stream press about it in the last few weeks. When the US govt / MSN makes a lot of noise about something it usually means there is some agenda and surprise it was another attempt at stealing an election
The presidential election in Venezuela was yet another opportunity for the West to destabilise the country. The international press consciously presented a totally false version of events in order to discredit President Nicolás Maduro and support his main challenger, Edmundo González. He writes:
The disputed re-election of President Nicolás Maduro has little to do with the outcome of the ballot box. In fact, as soon as they came to power in the United States on 11 September 2001, the Straussians (i.e. the followers of Leo Strauss, whose thinking was popularised by neo-conservative journalists [1]) thought that the then President of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez, should be shot. Since then, Venezuela has faced attempted military coups and colour revolutions.
The current president, Nicolás Maduro, is following in Hugo Chávez’s footsteps, even if he lacks the stature. In 2019, President Trump’s Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, commissioned the Straussian Elliott Abrams to overthrow President Maduro.
And then some background on Elliott Abrams as he is a key player...
Elliott Abrams, who had already taken part in the massacres in Guatemala in the 1980s, then in the Iran-Contra affair (for which he was convicted in the United States [2]) and the 2002 coup against President Chávez [3], is now the man in Israel who is piloting the ethnic cleansing of Gaza behind Benyamin Netanyahu [4]. In Venezuela, Abrams relied on a young deputy, Juan Guaidó. He got a handful of MPs to elect him president of the National Assembly, challenged Maduro’s election and proclaimed himself interim president
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And now to the core of the 2024 election
The Venezuelan presidential election was held on July 28. There were 10 candidates, not 2 as reported by some media outlets. The ballot was conducted using voting machines that were not connected to the Internet and issued a receipt for each vote.
To cheat, the machines had to be manipulated before the vote, at the risk of being discovered when the results were compared with the voters’ receipts. Incidentally, no one has denounced any rigging of this kind. Venezuela being a huge country with communication problems, the Constitution gives the National Electoral Council (CNE) 30 days to collect the polling station reports and announce the results.
However, the day after the election and well before the results were announced on July 29 and 30, Maria Corina Machado’s political group, Vente Venezuela ("Come Venezuela"), declared that the vote had been rigged. Its militants attacked 12 universities, including the newly renovated Central University of Venezuela (UCV), 7 high schools and 21 colleges, causing major damage. Three hospitals and at least 37 clinics were also attacked, as were 6 warehouses and food distribution centres.
According to the outgoing president, Nicolás Maduro, 70% of the violent elements arrested were former expatriates who had recently returned, many of whom confessed to having been trained in Texas. "The violent elements burnt down a community radio station and attacked 11 Caracas metro stations. They claimed to be burning the trains but were turned back by the workers (...) 10 regional CNE headquarters were also targeted, as was its central headquarters in Caracas, which was attacked when at least 60 international guests were in the area reserved for observers. They escaped unharmed thanks to the intervention of the Bolivarian National Guard, who protected them and arrested more than 20 members of the comanditos (commandos) on the spot".
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