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Venezuela crisis: Tensions rise amid protests and threats of repression by Maduro regime | The Gateway Pundit

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Venezuela crisis: Tensions rise amid protests and threats of repression by Maduro regime | The Gateway Pundit

Marina Corina Machado at a rally for freedom in Venezuela after the election was stolen. August 3, 2024

Today is a key day for the future of Venezuela. Maduro and the opposition, led by María Corina Machado and her presidential candidate, Edmundo González Urrutia, have called on Venezuelans to protest in response to Sunday’s controversial vote and the reaction of thousands of Venezuelans.

Opposition leader María Corina Machado warned on X: “Now we are going to be paid, that is why we must remain firm, organized and mobilized, with the pride of having achieved a historic victory on July 28.” For its part, the Chavista regime has ordered a large deployment of the regime’s security forces against any protester throughout the country.

Maduro has ordered the “surrounding” of the country’s capital: “I have given the order to protect the city of Caracas, I have given precise orders for the intelligence forces and the police to protect Greater Caracas,” he announced Friday evening. This announcement raises fears of a violent reaction from the regime’s security forces.

Faced with the refusal to publish the final minutes of the last elections, Maduro argued that he could not show the electoral result because Elon Musk had hacked the system of the National Electoral Council (CNE), controlled by Chavismo, which proclaimed him the winner with 52% of the vote, while González Urrutia would have obtained 43%.

At the international level, countries such as Argentina, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Panama and Uruguay have recognized González Urrutia as the true president-elect, moderately joining the statements of the United States and Peru’s categorical rejection of the official results.

The Argentine Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced this morning the arrival at Ezeiza Airport in Buenos Aires of the diplomatic personnel assigned to its embassy in Caracas. The delegation was received by the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Leopoldo Sahores.

“This morning, the diplomatic, military and administrative personnel working at the Argentine Embassy in Venezuela arrived at Ezeiza airport and had to leave the country, along with their families, following the summons by the government of Nicolás Maduro on July 29,” said the statement released by the Argentine Ministry of Foreign Affairs via the social network X, formerly Twitter.

Photo provided by the Argentine Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Buenos Aires.

Let us recall that the government of Nicolás Maduro has expelled Argentine diplomats from the country, as well as from other countries, but this case has acquired special importance due to the presence of several Venezuelan asylum seekers who have been in the embassy since March. Brazil assumed this Thursday the management of diplomatic representation and the protection of asylum seekers.

For his part, Maduro publicly thanked his socialist allies for approving the result of the disputed elections.

At the last minute, Venezuelan citizens continue to denounce the abuses and deaths at the hands of the Chavista forces; the latest victim is Carmen Rodríguez, kidnapped by the dictatorship and who died today after being kidnapped in El Esfuerzo, in Petare.