The Chavista president assures that the police arrested hundreds of coup plotters this week paid and trained in the US, Colombia and Peru
▲ On the left, Nicolás Maduro speaks to his supporters, accompanied by his wife, Cilia Flores, at a large demonstration in the Venezuelan capital. Above, opposition leader Corina Machado during her reappearance at a massive march in Caracas.Afp Photo
AFP, Prensa Latina and Reuters
The newspaper La Jornada
Sunday, August 4, 2024, p. 16
Caracas. Thousands of Venezuelans, in different states, attended the Victory demonstration for peacecalled yesterday afternoon by the ruling party to support the electoral victory of President Nicolás Maduro on July 28, who at the end of the march in Caracas denounced a plan to usurp the power promoted by the United States, as well as by the national and international right.
The president assured that no one will impose a coup and affirmed that peace has triumphed in Venezuela.
Earlier, María Corina Machado led an opposition rally – two days after going underground because she felt her life was threatened – which was also attended by thousands of people and in which she declared to her followers: We have never been as strong as we are today. The regime has never been so weak. It has lost all legitimacy.. The one who was not present was his candidate, Edmundo González Urrutia.
Before a mass gathering in the vicinity of Miraflores Palace, the seat of government, Maduro insisted that the allegations of fraud are part of a coup plan against him and warned that It will not be accepted, with national laws, that there is an attempt to usurp the presidency againdrawing a parallel with the international recognition received by opposition leader Juan Guaidó in 2019, who, currently exiled in the United States, was the head of parliament in 2019 when he was recognized Acting President by Washington and fifty governments in Latin America and Europe that considered Maduro’s re-election last year to be fraudulent, in elections that the opposition boycotted.
Gonzalez Urrutia Today he was afraid to swear himself in As Guaidó did in 2019 in a public square, Maduro followed. He did not go to the opposition march (…), they were going to put the sash on him and he was going to swear himself in. He was afraid.
Maduro was ratified as president-elect the day before yesterday by the National Electoral Council (CNE) with 52 percent of the votes, compared to 43 out of every 100 votes for González.
The opposition tests
The opposition claims to have evidence showing that it won the election with 67 percent, although this evidence was not presented to the electoral authority for verification. Maduro stressed that In the face of the coup d’état promoted by Washington and the national and international right, what must prevail in the country is respect for the Magna Carta, justice, democracy and respect for all Venezuelans.reported Prensa Latina.
In the face of conspiracies, a Constitutioninsisted Maduro, who called for respect for the laws. Venezuela has laws and institutions and it has to be sovereign without interference from any country in the world.Telesur published.
He also said that today he can tell the whole country and the world that Venezuela is at peace, calm, vibrant and brightand praised the march full of emotion which occupied, he said, about eight kilometers throughout Caracas.
The president pointed out that there was a demonstration for the country and the world of where reason, truth, strength and power lie, and stated It is in this beautiful town that has been mobilized by millions Not only in the capital, but in more than a hundred localities.
Maduro reaffirmed that justice will prevail in the Bolivarian Republic. Today peace has triumphed and in the days to come we will maintain it.he indicated, and explained It is essential that the people empower themselves, mobilize and maintain the popular military-police union.
About the actions vandalism and terrorism On Monday and Tuesday, the president said that in just 48 hours the fascist outbreak was resolved: We have 2 thousand prisoners and from there they go to (the prisons) Tocorón and Tocuyito, maximum punishment, justice. This time there will be no forgiveness, this time there will be Tocorónthe newspaper reported The National.
The Chavista leader claimed that there were people paid to attack hospitals, schools, universities and the property of popular leaders. It has been proven that 80 percent of the captured criminals were prepared in Texas, Colombia and Peru to generate the coup plan in the countrypublic The universal.
The Chavistas began marching yesterday afternoon, heading to the center of Caracas, to the presidential palace of Miraflores. There were thousands of people dressed mostly in red – the color of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela – with flags and banners that said: I’m going to my Gallo Pinto, Venezuela wants peace and The people want justiceamong other.
“We have to defend the victory
We have to defend the victory of our legitimate president Nicolás MaduroRaúl Díaz, a 35-year-old actor who wore an Uncle Sam suit in criticism of the fact that comes to conquer everyone through social networks.
We are at the beginning of a new era, the era of the consolidation of the revolution, the era of well-being.said Ali Garcia, a 69-year-old university professor.
In the morning, opposition member María Corina Machado led thousands of her followers in protest against Maduro’s re-election. Just as it took us a long time to achieve electoral victory, now comes a stage that we live day by day but we have never been as strong as we are today.said.
Freedom, freedom!shouted thousands of opponents as Machado toured the area before beginning his speech in an open-top truck.
Thousands of supporters gathered early on Las Mercedes Avenue, in a middle-class neighborhood in eastern Caracas, to take part in the rally called by the opposition.
We are defending popular sovereignty through voting!said the 56-year-old leader at the rally in Caracas.
Machado reappeared two days after announcing that she was going into hiding because she felt in danger; however, her candidate, Edmundo González Urrutia, who represented her in the July 28 elections and claimed victory, did not attend the march, but did appear on social media, on the American channel UHN Plus, to say: Here we continue working to ensure that the elections of July 28 are respected, in which we won with an overwhelming majority..
Maduro calls for imprisonment of opposition leaders
I feel hope when I see her despite the threats, I feel that she is a light for Venezuela. I have great faith that we will get out of this government. No more misery. We will prosper.Adrian Pacheco, a 26-year-old businessman, told AFP.
When she finished, the leader got on a motorcycle and sped off to her place of refuge.
The opposition held similar rallies in other cities, all of them peaceful and with no major security deployment. Venezuelans also demonstrated in Colombia, Argentina, Panama, the United States, Spain and France, among other places.