The European Union says Maduro’s victory cannot be recognised due to lack of evidence; his posture is a shamethe president retorts

▲ Venezuelan security forces yesterday displayed pieces from the seized arsenal.Photo Europa Press

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The newspaper La Jornada
Monday, August 5, 2024, p. 27

Caracas. Security forces seized 156 pieces of war weapons in Caracas, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Justice and Peace reported yesterday, while the Attorney General, Tarek William Saab, assured that there are no arrest warrants against opposition leaders María Corina Machado and Edmundo González Urrutia.

On the external front, the European Union (EU) stated that In the absence of supporting evidence, the results published on August 2 by the National Electoral Council cannot be recognizedand considered that the opponent Edmundo González Urrutia appears to have won the presidential election by a substantial majorityalthough it did not formally recognize it, as the United States did last Thursday.

The seizure also included more than 6,000 units of ammunition of different calibres, two bulletproof vests, a riot helmet and a computer. The weapons were found on Saturday, thanks to the intelligence work of the police.

The weapons were found on Saturday on Avenida Presidente Medina in Caracas, in an operation resulting from intelligence work by the Bolivarian National Police.

Last Thursday, the discovery of another arsenal containing more than 200 parts and pieces of weapons of war from the United States was reported.

Prosecutor Saab referred to the alleged arrest warrants against Machado and González. I want to know the orders, see them, because there are none.he said in an interview with Colombian radio station Caracol Radio.

He defended the actions of the security forces during the anti-Chavez protests. Saab acknowledged that in the past Yes, there were such cases and he himself took them to jail. Several people who committed excesses during demonstrations will be prosecuted. If there are indications that they have committed a crime, they will be prosecuted..

For the Attorney General, the 20 fatalities in the post-election protests are the result of the same events violence exercised by opposition protesters.

Twenty deaths caused by the violence of protesters themselves. They tried to burn down the mayor’s office in Puerto Veracruz, in the state of Anzoátegui, and there were 10 people there. They tried to burn down the headquarters of the ruling party in El Tigre with 20 people inside. And violent opposition protesters did it.the official explained.

For his part, President Nicolás Maduro described shame the EU’s position on the situation in its country and demanded the publication of results by the National Electoral Council.

In the absence of supporting evidence, the results published on August 2 cannot be recognized.the EU said in a statement this weekend.

Copies of the electoral records published by the opposition and reviewed by several independent organizations indicate that Edmundo González Urrutia appears to have wonthe text says.

The European Union therefore calls for a new independent verification of the electoral records, if possible by an internationally reputable body.

In addition, the EU demanded that the Venezuelan government to end arbitrary arrests, repression and violent rhetoric against members of the opposition and civil society, and to release all political prisoners.

Maduro responded: “The European Union is once again bringing up its old story, the same bloc that recognized Juan Guaidó as the ‘legitimate president’. The European Union, (Joseph) Borrell, is a disgrace, it led Ukraine into a war, and now it washes its hands; it remains silent in the face of the massacre in Gaza and the genocide, so now it says that in Venezuela there is repression of peaceful demonstrations. Peaceful? When they attack the population and destroy hospitals and schools.”

The president reported yesterday that more than 2,000 people have been arrested for the violent events of the last few days. Now the European Union says it is political persecution. Those arrested had weapons and were drugged, almost 80 percent of them were trained in Texas by the United States government, and they silence it, they keep quiet..

Maduro insisted on his claim that his country is facing a cyberfascist coup; for them it is vital to hurt the Bolivarian national armed force from within, to try to divide it, demoralize it, demobilize it, because they continue to believe that the Venezuelan military is subordinate to the orders of the blue-blooded oligarchy or the American empire.he said.

Nothing that the filthy rat Guaidó didn’t do when they tried to invade the country from Colombiahe said in a speech during the celebration of the 87th anniversary of the founding of the Bolivarian National Guard.

Continuing his fight with Elon Musk, Maduro said that the tycoon He uses diabolical symbols in his profile. The diabolical symbols he has on his chest are satanic sects of the American power that have been articulated, like those of the Argentine president, Javier Milei, or in Venezuela, satanic sects like fascism, which have attacked the country. It is a spiritual struggle, between good and evil, between hatred and lies, because you know all the occultism that was behind Hitler..

For his part, Foreign Minister Yvan Gil denounced that a self-named Electoral Observation Mission, which gave the victory to González Urrutia, is “financed by the American (ultra-right) organization National Endowment for Democracy, which has not been in the Bolivarian Republic.

From its headquarters in Colombia, Misión indicated that when comparing the records of the anti-Chavez movement, which have not been publicly disclosed, with the data from the first CNE bulletin, The votes remaining to be counted in the missing minutes are not sufficient to alter the result that gives the victory of the candidate Edmundo González Urrutia.

According to the second bulletin issued on Friday by the CNE, with 96.87 percent of the votes counted, Maduro obtained 51.95 percent of the votes, compared to 43.18 percent of support for González Urrutia.

Yván Gil wrote in X: “this is a fakea sham mission that has not come to Venezuela, that uses false data, of which there has already been shown evidence that it is a scam.”

Machado also welcomed the request from seven European countries to publish the minutes of the elections, issued on Saturday, before the communiqué of the 27 members that make up the EU.