The president denounces attempts to destabilize Venezuela financed by the US and the drug dealer Colombian
▲ Supporters of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro demonstrated yesterday in front of Miraflores Palace in defense of last Sunday’s electoral victory. The re-elected president called on them to the mother of all marches for next Saturday.Afp Photo
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The newspaper La Jornada
Wednesday, July 31, 2024, p. 25
Caracas. Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro yesterday called for the permanent mobilization of the people to consolidate the popular victory in last Sunday’s election, in which he emerged victorious with 51.2 percent of the votes, and reiterated that the country faces “an attempt at massive destabilization financed by the United States and Colombian drug trafficking.”
I call for the magic formula of the civic-military-police union so that starting tomorrow all social sectors, grassroots popular forces, make a mobilization schedule and come to the Miraflores Palace.said the ruler before a huge gathering on the balcony of the people, from where he called for participation on Saturday in the mother of all marches.
Supporters of opposition candidate María Corina Machado, who after being disqualified from participating in the race promoted the candidacy of Edmundo González Urrutia, winner of 44.2 percent of the votes, according to official figures, continued their demonstrations yesterday. The protests the day before yesterday resulted in at least 12 deaths, including a police officer in the central state of Aragua and a national guard who died from a gunshot wound, as well as 44 wounded and at least 749 arrested.
Freddy Superlano, national coordinator of Voluntad Popular, is among those detained, reported Attorney General Tarek Saab.
Maduro highlighted the mobilization of the Venezuelan people in different parts of the country, including the Miraflores Palace, in defense of democracy and the election results. We will defend the people from criminal fascismMaduro warned while greeting To the soldiers of the homeland; there is a lot of emotion and a lot of strength.
The people united will never be defeated!chanted the protesters arriving at Miraflores. Chavez lives, the struggle continuesreplied Maduro, who reported that the opponents who knocked down statues of Hugo Chavez are already in prison and They will be punished with all the rigor of justice and the law; respect for history.
In front of tens of thousands of supporters, Maduro said that “the streets have to belong to the people. Until we restore peace, until we consolidate it, we will do two things: military and police patrols in all the cities of Venezuela and “people mobilized in the streets every day to restore normality.”
I need the people’s help to condemn the fascistshe insisted. Fascism has broken out. We can never let our guard down. We have to emerge stronger from every situation.he stressed.
Musk’s offensive continues
The tycoon Elon Musk has become obsessed with taking over Venezuela and governing the country from outside. And he is responsible for a good part of the attacks and aggressions. He is an alliance of the fascist extreme right.he said.
The above, because Musk published on his social network X, a poster with the photograph of Maduro, in which the heading appears: Narcotics and Law Enforcement Rewards Program Offerfollowed by the State Department and the Bureau of International Narcotics Affairs, which offers a Reward of up to 15 million US dollars for information leading to the arrest/conviction of Nicolás Maduro Moros.
Come for me
He described it as terrorist to Machado, and repeatedly called coward to Edmundo González, whom he challenged to come for me. He stated that the recent criminal acts were planned and financed with money Colombian drug trafficking, Elon Musk and the United States governmentand vowed to uncover and capture everyone involved.
We’re going after all the criminalshe said, announcing the creation of a social fund to help combat the damage caused by fascist commandos created by the rightamong other measures to recover and restore order.
Earlier, the president of the National Assembly of Venezuela, Jorge Rodríguez, said that both Machado and González should go to prison for being responsible for the fascist conspiracy in the country.
During the meeting of the National Defense Council – made up of the heads of public powers, military and police chiefs – Maduro stressed that those arrested in the protests are already providing information about who gave them the orders and assured that the armed groups would work “directly with this group of Machado and González Urrutia.
I hold you, Mr. González Urrutia, responsible for everything that is happening in Venezuela, for the criminal violence, the criminals, the wounded, the dead, the destruction.Maduro said, demanding justice.
Corina Machado demands that the CNE publish the minutes
Meanwhile, opposition supporters continued their protests. Machado and González Urrutia arrived at the rally in an open-top truck. I told you we were going to collect and we are collecting!Machado said, in line with a promise from his campaign: not to be left behind steal the election. He demanded that the CNE publish the voting records from Sunday to verify whether Maduro or González Urrutia won, as the opposition claims.
Most of the protesters were dressed in white or in shirts of the famous Vinotinto football team; they carried caps in the national colours, flags of the country, banners and horns, which disappeared from sight on a central avenue in Caracas.
The rally, which the opposition defined as a citizen assemblywas repeated in other cities in Venezuela.
In the face of protests in Caracas and other parts of the country by anti-Chavez supporters, the president of the National Assembly and head of the government’s campaign, Jorge Rodríguez, said that both Machado and González are part of the party. a violent action commando that attempts to sow civil war in Venezuela.
Attorney General Tarek William Saab said that what is happening in the country is not protests, but terrorist acts, vandalism and sabotage by armed criminalswhile the Minister of Defense, Vladimir Padrino, reaffirmed the most absolute loyalty and unconditional support to President Maduro and denounced that a coup plan promoted by the national extreme right is being executed.
