The inhabitants of Venezuela are preparing for the questioned third inauguration of Nicolás Maduro, after a regime characterized by violence and repression. This will take power this Friday, with an electoral result that opposition politicians, the US Government and other Latin American governments call fraud.
The Instagram account of the General Directorate of Military Counterintelligence of Venezuela (DGCIM) He published videos alluding to the control and confiscation of homes prior to Friday. One is of a hand knocking on a door in the middle of the night. In another, a van is shown with its lights on, along with the message “Guaranteing peace.” Some point to these messages as suggestive of retaliation that critics could encounter.
Fear in Venezuela: Maduro takes office again
Maduro and his allies are “demonstrating that they are not going to tolerate any dissent, and people are afraid,” a Latin American diplomat told CNN who asked to speak on the condition of anonymity to avoid repercussions. On July 28, Maduro was proclaimed the winner of the presidential elections by the electoral authorities, under the strict control of the ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela.
But Venezuela’s opposition published thousands of voting records claiming that its candidate, Edmundo González Urrutia, had actually won the vote with 67% to Maduro’s 30%. Independent observers such as Carter Center and the Colombian Electoral Observation Missionas well as CNN’s own analysis, They found that the opposition’s minutes were legitimate, but little changed in Venezuela.
When protests over the vote broke out, the Maduro government detained more than 2,000 people in less than a week to crush dissent.
The words of Pope Francis
Pope Francis called for respect for the rights of all Venezuelans, including those detained in recent monthsand wished for the start of negotiations with the opposition for “the common good of the country.” He said it in his traditional speech at the beginning of the year to the ambassadors of the countries accredited to the Holy See.
The head of the Catholic Church expressed his rejection “of any type of violence” and wished for “the beginning of negotiations in good faith and finalized for the common good of the country”, prior to the presidential swearing-in of the leader of Chavismo in a climate of maximum tension due to the multiple allegations of fraud in the elections.
Nine former presidents will accompany Edmundo González Urrutia on his return to the country
The former president of Colombia, Andrés Pastrana, stated this Tuesday that he and eight other former Latin American leaders will accompany the Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo González Urrutia on his return to his country, in an attempt to assume the presidency on January 10, despite the fact that The regime recognizes Nicolás Maduro as the winner of the presidential elections held on July 28.
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Pastrana affirmed that nine former heads of state members of the international forum Democratic Initiative of Spain and the Americas (IDEA Group) will travel with González Urrutia, first to Panama and then to Venezuela. The other former presidents are Mario Abdo (Paraguay), Vicente Fox (Mexico), Felipe Calderón (Mexico), Mireya Moscoso (Panama), Ernesto Pérez (Panama), Jorge Quiroga (Bolivia), Jamil Mahuad (Ecuador) and Laura Chinchilla (Costa Rich).
The Nicolás Maduro regime kidnapped the son-in-law of Edmundo González Urrutia
This was reported this Tuesday by the diplomat on his X account (formerly Twitter). “This morning my son-in-law Rafael Tudares was kidnapped. Rafael was heading to my grandchildren’s school to drop them off for the start of classes, hooded men dressed in black intercepted him, put him in a gold-colored truck, license plate AA54E2C, and took him away. At this time he is missing.”
Corina Machado reported that security forces surrounded her mother’s house
Internal tension worsens in Venezuela on the eve of the third presidential inauguration of Nicolás Maduro. Given the announcement that Edmundo González Urrutia and María Corina Machado will travel to the country on January 10 to take over as head of the Government, the current regime would have kidnapped González Urrutia’s son-in-law and Machado’s mother.
“Since a few hours ago, agents of the regime have surrounded my mother’s housethey have placed checkpoints (NdR: checkpoints) throughout the urbanization and flew over them with drones. Also the light ‘went out’ in the area“explained the Venezuelan representative, an opponent of Nicolas Maduro.
Furthermore, Corina Machado noted: “My mom is 84 years oldshe is sick, with chronic health conditions.” To conclude her message, she remarked: “Maduro and company, you have no limit to your evil. Cowards“.
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