Thousands of Venezuelans marched in Palermo against Nicolás Maduro

Thousands of Venezuelans marched in Palermo against Nicolás Maduro

August 17, 2024 – 20:23

Gathered around the work Floralis Genérica, they demanded that Maduro hand over power to Edmundo González Urrutia, the opposition candidate they consider the legitimate winner of the elections in Venezuela.

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Thousands of anti-Chavez Venezuelans gathered this Saturday in the city of Buenos Aires to reject the official results of the presidential elections in his country, which resulted in Nicolás Maduro as the winner. It was held in line with those held in other cities around the world.

On Saturday afternoon, the iconic Floralis Genericaa 20-metre-high silver petal located next to the Faculty of Law, in Palermo, She was surrounded by a crowd dressed in red, yellow and blue. Little by little, thousands of anti-Chavez supporters gathered at that wooded spot to express their rejection of Nicolás Maduro and denounce fraud in the Venezuelan presidential elections on July 28.

Those gathered at that point in Palermo claim that the results of the National Electoral Council (CNE) of their country, which gave victory to Nicolás Maduro with 52% of the votes against the 44% of the opposition candidate Edmundo González Urrutia, are false. They insisted on validating the results released by Urrutia’s party, Con Venezuela, which declared him the winner with more than 60% of the votes.

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There were also Argentine men and women who showed solidarity with the anti-Chavez slogans.

There were also Argentine men and women who showed solidarity with the anti-Chavez slogans.

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Until now, The CNE has not released the electoral records that would validate its results nor has it shown any other way of checking the vote count. Faced with the demand to do so from the local and international right, and even from leaders such as Lula Da Silva, Gustavo Petro and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, the Chavistas He chose to go to the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) of his country to certify the results, providing only that body with the electoral documentation.

There were no doubts about Floralis Genérica and they do not trust the TSJ, accused of being addicted to Chavismo. Instead, slogans of freedom and the national anthem. The vast majority of the protesters, with Venezuelan flags, shirts of the country’s football team, the Red wine, They were Venezuelans living in Argentina, Many of them emigrated due to the economic crisis that their country has been experiencing for more than a decade. Others reported being politically persecuted.

Nicolás Maduro accused Javier Milei of using SIDE funds to “attack the Bolivarian Revolution with his bots”

The controversy over the use of SIDE funds reached Venezuela. Its president, Nicolas Maduro, accused to his Argentine counterpart Javier Milei spending 100 million dollars to finance bots to attack Chavismo on social media.

“Today a complaint circulated that says that the Argentine government, through the Argentine intelligence secretariat, called SIDE, spent 100 million dollars from the public budget in the last 20 days to attack the Bolivarian revolution with its bots,” Maduro said during a national broadcast with his cabinet.

Source: Ambito

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