▲ Two months before the disputed election in Venezuela, President Nicolás Maduro attended a rally yesterday in La Guaira.Photo Afp
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La Jornada Newspaper
Sunday, September 29, 2024, p. 19
Caracas. Two months after the presidential elections of July 28, both supporters of the Venezuelan government and sectors of the opposition mobilized yesterday in Caracas and other cities in the country to express their different perspectives on the national political situation.
The United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), led by President Nicolás Maduro, organized marches in support of his mandate and in defense of his re-election, announced by the National Electoral Council and endorsed by the Supreme Court of Justice.
Hundreds of Maduro supporters gathered in the capital to express their support for the president and celebrate what they consider the consolidation of the July electoral victory.
Jorge Rodríguez, president of the National Assembly and member of the PSUV political bureau, participated in the official demonstrations and affirmed that the Venezuelan people continue in the streets defending peace and the future of the nation.
We will achieve victory in the 2025 elections and deepen the true democracy of the peopleRodríguez stated before Maduro supporters in reference to the elections for governors and mayors scheduled for next year.
At the same event, the Minister of the Interior and Justice, Diosdado Cabello, added that unlike what some sectors expected, there was no significant opposition demonstration in recent weeks.
Both Rodríguez and Cabello made reference to the situation in Palestine, linking international tensions with the Venezuelan government’s narrative of resistance.
The project of the extreme right is a project of death and violence, like the fascism that is imposed today in Israelsaid Rodríguez.
According to the leader, the Venezuelan opposition tried to replicate these scenarios in the country after the elections, but the popular response has been to remain in the streets in defense of the Bolivarian Revolution.
Cabello stated: We march for peace and tranquility and in rejection of the violence of warcondemning Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip and the Middle East.
For their part, sectors of the opposition also took to the streets in a demonstration called by the Democratic Unitary Platform, which adopted the protest modality known as swarm.
With this strategy, small groups of protesters gathered dispersedly in different parts of Caracas, appearing and disappearing quickly to avoid confrontation.
María Corina Machado, leader of the Vente Venezuela movement, explained that the swarm It was a tactic designed so that citizens could demonstrate without exposing themselves to reprisals.
Meanwhile, the Venezuelan opposition candidate in the elections of July 28, Edmundo González Urrutia, starred in his first public act yesterday since his arrival in Spain under the condition of asylee in a rally at Puerta del Sol in Madrid, along with hundreds of his compatriots, to claim his victory in the elections, the correspondent of The DayArmando G. Tejeda.
The protest in Madrid was attended by the leader of the Spanish Popular Party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, and the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, who expressed their solidarity with the Venezuelan opposition.
Also present was Antonio Ledezma, former mayor of Caracas, and virtually, María Corina Machado, in a live speech from her social networks.
