President requests investigation into cyber attack on the Electoral Council // He asks the Supreme Court for an expert opinion on the results of the election
▲ Supporters of President Nicolás Maduro yesterday in the streets of Caracas to defend the electoral victory.Afp Photo
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The newspaper La Jornada
Thursday, August 1, 2024, p. 25
Caracas. Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro offered yesterday to hand over 100 percent of the minutes of the disputed elections that resulted in his re-election and assured that the opposition leaders who denounce fraud They should be behind barsbecause They have blood on their hands.
Opposition leaders María Corina Machado and presidential candidate Edmundo González Urrutia say they won the election and denounce an escalation of repression that has left at least 12 dead and dozens injured since Monday, as well as more than a thousand detained, according to the government. They have not mentioned the acts of vandalism committed by their followers, such as burning down town halls and looting.
Attorney General Tarek William Saab reported 12 deaths, including a police officer and a National Guardsman, as well as 77 wounded officers and 1,062 detained in the anti-Chavez protests.
The president was declared the winner of the elections by the National Electoral Council (CNE) with 51.2 percent of the votes, compared to 44.2 percent for González Urrutia.
The Federation of Chambers and Companies of Venezuela (Fedeindustria) launched a call to respect the institutions, the Constitution and the laws, and strongly rejected the acts of violence that affect companies and the economic development of the country, reported the local newspaper Last News.
I have said, as political leader, son of Commander Hugo Chavez, that (the alliance) the Great Patriotic Pole and the United Socialist Party of Venezuela are ready to present 100 percent of the records. They will find out very soon, because God is with us and the evidence has already appeared.Maduro told reporters at the headquarters of the Supreme Court of Justice, where he filed a legal appeal to request an investigation of the entire electoral process that includes an expert opinion on the results and of the cyber attack to the CNE systems on voting day.
Referring to the accusations by Machado and González, in a press conference with foreign correspondents, Maduro replied: “Mr. González Urrutia, show your face, come out of hiding, do not be a coward, Mrs. Machado… You have blood on your hands and you should be behind bars.
They are the damage to Venezuela, they are not capable of having political power, of governing this country, and they will never, ever reach political power. I assure you and I know what I am saying, these criminals will never reach it.the president said.
Justice will demonstrate González Urrutia’s criminal characterhe explained.
He condemned the media campaign against Venezuela and denounced the existence of a drug laboratory fake news from the United States, following pressure from some hegemonic media outlets regarding the election results of July 28.
It’s a laboratory. We are facing the most criminal and dirty conspiracy we have seen in a long time in Venezuela.he denounced, showing a video of a young man who had supposedly been murdered in the Carapita area in Antímano, which did not happen, with the purpose of encouraging hatred towards the president, Telesur reported.
Maduro denounced on social network X that the main campaign against Venezuela is in the international media, with which They want to justify a military intervention. And he asked: ‘Why do you want to plunge our country into a civil war? Why this attack? What has Venezuela done against you?’
Maduro also linked the head of the criminal gang Aragua TrainHector Rusthenford, The Warrior Boywith opposition protests.
He is one of the most wanted criminals in Venezuela, after the government claimed to have dismantled the gang with an intervention in a prison from which the group operated for years.
“The gringos broke this criminal, declared him a terrorist and told him: ‘go to Venezuela and do something to save yourself,'” Maduro added.
“He warrior child He is in the south of Caracas directing the operations, right now he is trying to flee to Colombia,” accused the president, who insisted that he will not hesitate to call on the people to a new revolution if they force him American imperialism and fascist criminals.
Meanwhile, Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodríguez responded to the post on the X account of her US counterpart, Kamala Harris, assuring that Those who burn down schools and destroy universities, burn health centres, police stations and town halls, loot shops and attack public transport are not peaceful protesters..
He also questioned Harris by asking: What would you do in the United States in a similar situation?
In this context, Jordan Goudreau, organizer of the protest, was arrested in the United States. Operation Gideon of the opposition Juan Guaidó, reported Last News.
The former US Green Beret who organised a failed raid to overthrow Maduro was arrested yesterday in New York on federal arms trafficking charges.