Participation in the Venezuelan Presidential Elections
May 21st, 18.- These Presidential polls in Venezuela last Sunday May 20th were the lowest since year 1958. According to the National Electoral Council the participation was of 48%.
With 96% of the scrutinized records, the participation was of 46.01%, and the CNE was expecting a total of 48% of attendance to the electoral centers, the President of the Electoral Power of Venezuela, Tibisay Lucena appointed.
The Venezuelan opposition, organized through the Table of the Democratic Unity (MUD), and the Wide Front Venezuela Free (Frente Amplio Venezuela Libre), exhorted to the abstention these polls for considering this process was not complying with the conditions for legal and transparent elections.
The Supreme Tribunal of Justice invalidated the MUD card. The National Electoral Council also invalidated the oppositionist parties Primero Justicia (Justice First) and Voluntad Popular (People's Will) for not having participated in the elections for Majoralties of year 2017.
On the other hand, oppositionist leaders such as Henrique Capriles was politically disabled by the General Comptrollership of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. Capriles was defeated by Nicolás Maduro in the Presidential elections of year 2013.
Henri Falcón postulated against the MUD decision not to participate in these polls. However, soon before the announcement of the final results this Sunday, Falcón assured that the abstention had harmed his winning options. Falcón stressed on the irregularities in the electoral centers on the voting day, and he discredited the polls.
#TodosAlRematePerfecto Venezuela elects its future today in the second polls after the decease of Hugo Chávez. The world is attentive to the development of this historical date
May 20th 2018 - A group of oppositionists approached to the voting center enabled in Tenerife, Spain to stop the Venezuelans residents in the Spanish island to exert their right to vote in the presidential elections of this sunday May 20th.
People yelled phrases against the Venezuelan Revolutionary process and offend those willing to participate in the polls.
In the next video published by Lechuguinos it's possible to appreciate more details of this sabotage. It tried to prevent from the right to vote during the presidential Venezuelan elections, where the Venezuelan people elect the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in the 24th democratic poll of 19 years of Bolivarian Revolution.
ORLANDO FIGUERA (21 YEARS OLD) WAS STABBED AND BURNED ALIVE ON MAY 20TH 2017 IN THE SUBURBS OF ALTAMIRA, IN THE EAST SIDE OF THE CAPITAL DISTRICT (CARACAS).
Caracas, may 20th - Exactly one year ago, at the square of Altamira (an oppositionist core located at the east side of Caracas), the Venezuelan fascism burned alive Orlando Figuera for looking like a "Chavista".
Figuera finally died on June 04th as a consequence of the wounds produced by the violent Venezuelan right wing.
On his first press conference this Sunday in occasion of the presidential elections, the Minister of People's Power for the Communication and the Information, Jorge Rodrìguez, referred on this infamous tragedy. This sunday, millions of people of Figuera's same color of skin vote. This becomes a tribute so that nevermore anyone be burned alive in Venezuela, Minister Jorge Rodríguez stressed.
Delegations from several countries of Europe and Latin America met
in Buenos Aires to create the Network of anticapitalists. This
network discussed and reached common conclusions regarding the
worldwide panorama, and tasks proposed for the international
revolutionary groups. This international encounter led to the
conformation of this international anticapitalist network of groups
and parties.
Some of the international participant organizations were the
Socialist Movement of Argentine Workers, Marea Socialista of
Venezuela, the Chilean Anticapitalist Movement, The Paraguay
Socialist Alternative, The French Commune, Socialist and Freedom of
the Spanish State and the Green Party of Belarus.
Marea Socialista from Venezuela presented a report that led to a
forum on the current events in Venezuela. A joint declaration was
reached by the beforementioned political organizations.
Declaration on
Venezuela
Venezuela suffers its sharpest crisis in the 20th and 21st
century. While the U.S. Government poses threats and interventionist
practices, the Venezuelan government policies hides its inefficiency
behind the U.S. Empire ambitions.
The hyperinflation runs without
control, dismantling every political, economic and social
accomplishments; besides, there is a social and services collapse,
and there are generalized repressive practices.
The autoritarism
grows rapidly and there is a permanent state of exeption. There is also,
abandonment, and the replacement of every previous legality,
includying the dismantling of the Bolivarian Constitution of 1999 and
its replacement with alleged “Constitutional decrees”. Framed
within this context, the Venezuelan people are sinking in misery, and
threatened by an unprecedented sanitary crisis. Venezuela is
currently suffering of a forced migration of massive sectors of its
population in the first “forced diaspora” of millions of
Venezuelans in the 21st Century in South America, too.
Venezuela not only suffers from U.S. interventionist threats and practices, but also from failed policies by the Venezuelan government that excuse behind the U.S. agenda. Before this situation:
1
We condemn and reject any
form of interference, interventionism, sabotage, blockade or
aggression by the U.S. imperialism, against Venezuela in its different
variants, especially any measure or economic sanction that may
violate the country's right to export its products or that may
prevent it from obtaining food and medicines for the people, as well
as inputs for production.
We also repudiate the requests of sectors
of the Venezuelan right-wing opposition that encourage a foreign
intervention against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela or that
promote concerted actions against the Venezuelan economy.
2
We
denounce the authoritarian, repressive and stateless course that
the government of Nicolás Maduro has been adopting, through the
usurpation of powers and with the imposition of a fraudulent National
Constituent Assembly, without consulting the Venezuelan people and
with the evident purpose of introducing new counter-reforms that add
up to those already applied, which imply: setbacks with respect to
what has been achieved in terms of democratic liberties, civil rights
and sovereignty; as well as the sacrifice to which the Venezuelan
people are subjected as a result of the embezzlement of the nation in
function of the interests of the bureaucracy, of the debt and
business system with global capitalism and the deepening and violent
expansion of a wild extractivism whose The most evident sample is the
so-called Orinoco Mining Arc.
3
On the other hand, in view of
the increasing authoritarianism and deterioration of the democratic
life that is experienced in the country, which affects not only the
sectors of the traditional opposition, but also the so-called
"critical chavismo" already extended social sectors and
workers that they try to exercise their right to protest and to act
politically; we demand the cessation of persecutions, dismissals,
arbitrary imprisonment, political crimes and violation of rights, and
we demand the reinstatement of free democratic development and the
restoration of the Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of
Venezuela sanctioned in 1999.
4
In order to favor the
liberation and recovery of economic resources to overcome the crisis
and address the humanitarian emergency, we support the proposal of a
Public and Citizen Audit, independent and with full power of
development, to investigate the allegations of embezzlement. nation
and the strong indications of a corrupt and illegitimate debt, as
well as the criminal flight of capital to international banks and tax
havens, with the aim of returning these resources to the Venezuelan
people and earmarking them as a priority for the relief of their
situation and the recovery of the internal production. It is the
Venezuelan people and not the foreign powers for their particular
purposes, who has the right to punish their corrupt officials
5
We
advocate for international solidarity support for the Venezuelan
people who, within the framework of respect for sovereignty, can
contribute to solving the food and health emergency or to meet
humanitarian needs. And, before the diaspora of Venezuelans and
Venezuelans, caused by the policies of the government of Nicolás
Maduro, the crisis of which he is one of the main responsible, and by
the political conditions that have been generated in the country, we
deplore the indolence and contempt with which the government treats
the victims of this situation and we also call for the broadest
solidarity and defense of the rights of those who are impelled to
emigrate to other countries. We do this in order to help them and
guarantee the best possible conditions regarding receptivity, rights
and living conditions in the countries of destination.
Likewise,
we demand from the Venezuelan government the adoption of all measures
leading to the cessation of the conditions that cause such an exodus.
And we emphatically reject the measures of the state bureaucracy
leading to deprive the families of Venezuelan emigrants of aid
remittances, either through mechanisms of change that are outside the
real values or other formulas of capture and confiscation of
the resources of such remittances (such as the tax announced by the
Vice President of the PSUV), while, in contrast, the capital escaped
and those derived from embezzlement and corruption are not punished.
6
In the face of the
upcoming presidential elections and state legislative councils, we
accompany the electoral policy of Socialist Tide of participating
with the vote in the presidential elections, without giving up in the
denunciation of the insufficiency of guarantees and of the
manipulated conditions in which it is carried out. We do so from an
independent standpoint against the candidacies of the bureaucracy and
capital, in opposition to any resulting government, which represents
such interests and intends to continue the unloading of the crisis on
the working class and the popular sectors, either with the classical
ones neoliberal formulas, awakening the illusion of a magical
solution through dollarization, or under the false flags of a
revolution that has been betrayed and dismantled by the Maduro-PSUV
government.
Buenos Aires, May 4th, 2018
On behalf of the constituent
groups of Anticapitalists Network:
Alejandro Bodart and Sergio
Garcia of the Socialist Workers Movement of Argentina
Gonzalo
Gomez and Carlos Miranda from Marea Socialista de Venezuela
Joaquín
Araneda and Maura Gálvez Bernabé of the Anticapitalist Movement of
Chile
Carlos Mareco and Nicholas Germanier of the Socialist
Alternative of Paraguay
Danubio Trujillo and Gabriel S. of Rumbo
Socialista de Uruguay
Daniel Petri and Francis Charpentier. La
Commune de France
Manel Pere Lecha and Carral Flower of Socialism
and Freedom of the Spanish State
May 14th, 2018.
With costumes of military operations, the U.S. South Commando intends to
perpetrate a quietus to the Government of the Venezuelan President Nicolás
Maduro.
Orange Alert
in South America
The dawn
of last saturday May 13th, 2018, at 06:48 AM, the Bolivian Head of State Evo
Morales, shook the public awareness of the whole Americas region after having
published a grave denounce on his Twitter account.
Similar to Morales, the Argentine
journalist Stella Calloni exhorted the public opinión regarding the grave
threat posed against Venezuela. She leaked a secret document from the U.S.
South Command.
The 11-page document has the
headline “Master Coup: A Plan to Pverthrow the Dictatorship in Venezuela”. It’s
suscribed by Almiral Kurt W. Tidd. Tidd is the U.S. Chief of the South Commando
in United States. According to Kurt Tidd, “The time has come” to militay
intervene Venezuela.
Between
years 2001 and 2003, the U.S. former permanent spokesman before the OAS Roger
Noriega, and staunch nemesis of President Hugo Chávez wrote for The New York
Times that “The options for Venezuela” were over”. In syncronicity with a time
bomb, Noriega suggested a coup de etat against Nicolás Maduro as the only way.
The danger of this affirmation lies
in the media used for such proposal. The New York Times is the most influential
media platform to legitimate U.S. military operations.
The Embassy of the United States in Caracas, in a
suspicious sample of clairvoyance, reported its U.S. citizens in Venezuela to
expect destabilization cores and demonstrations before and after the Venezuelan
Presidential elections.
Friday May 11th, 2018 - May
11, 2018 - The United States and its partners quietly prepare the
brutal plan "to end the 'dictatorship' of Venezuela: the Master Strike,"
which is already under way and whose first part would begin before the
next Venezuelan elections; and
if they do not succeed in overthrowing President Nicolás Maduro with
the new offensive, where they will use all the propaganda and media
apparatus, and more violent actions in "defense of democracy", they will
activate Plan B, which will cover several countries imposing a " multilateral force "to intervene militarily.Panama,
Colombia, Brazil and Guyana are key points of the military movement,
with the support of Argentina and other "friends" under Pentagon
control. They have already prepared the bases they will occupy, the countries
of direct support (border), and even hospitals and food collection
centers for their soldiers.The
document analyzes the current situation ratifying the counterinsurgency
war that is being waged against Venezuela, but also the perverse scheme
of the psychological war that allows to understand the persecution, the
harassment, the loss of prestige, the criminal lie that is used to end
not only the leaderships popular, but against the peoples of the region.This arises from a document that bears the signature USN K W TIDD,
that is to say, Kurt Walter Tidd, admiral of the United States Navy,
current commander of the Southern Command, and that has not yet been
disclosed.Referring
to the current situation in Venezuela, the report mentions that the
"Venezuelan Chavez dictatorship is shaken as a result of its internal
problems, the great lack of food, the depletion of income from external
sources of money and unbridled corruption, which has diminished the international support, won with petro-dollars, and that the purchasing power of the national currency is in constant decline ".They
suppose that this scenario, that they admit that they have created
themselves, with a terrifying impunity, will not change. In
this case, they justify their actions by warning that the Venezuelan
government will resort to new "populist" measures to preserve itself. It
is amazing where they put the opposition that they manage, advise and
pay, understanding that "the corrupt regime of Maduro will collapse, but
unfortunately the opposition forces, defenders of democracy and the
welfare of their people, do not have enough power to put end
to the nightmare of Venezuela "by internal disputes and even" the
corruption similar to that of its rivals, as well as the shortage of
roots "(NdR: that is, of patriotism), which does not allow them to take"
the maximum advantage of This situation and take the necessary step to fly over the state of
poverty and precariousness in which the pressure group exercised by the
left dictatorship has submerged the country. "What
is frightening is that while they consider that there is "unprecedented
criminal action in Latin America," referring to the government of
Venezuela, which has never acted against any of its neighbors and has
shown intense regional and global solidarity, the Plan argues that "democracy extends into America, a continent in which radical populism was destined to take control.""Argentina, Ecuador and Brazil are examples of this. This
rebirth of democracy -as they call it- is supported by the most
valuable determinations and conditions in the region, which are in their
favor. This is the moment in which the United States tries, with concrete
actions, that they are involved in that process in which to overthrow
the Venezuelan dictatorship will surely represent a continental turning
point ".On
the other hand, they encourage US President Donad Trump to act,
considering that "this is the Trump Administration's first opportunity
to demonstrate and carry forward its vision of democracy and security." They
seek to convince him that "his active participation is crucial, not
only for the Administration but for the continent and the world; that the moment has arrived. "This means "intensifying the definitive overthrow of Chavez and the
expulsion of his representative, undermining popular support" to the
government and "encouraging popular dissatisfaction, increasing the
process of destabilization and shortages to" ensure the irreversible
deterioration of his current dictator. "If
one wants to advance in the art of counterinsurgency perversion, it is
enough to read this paragraph: "Sitiate him (to Maduro), ridicule him
and show him as a symbol of awkwardness and incompetence, expose him as a
puppet of Cuba". They also suggest "exacerbating the division among the members of the
government group, revealing the differences in their living conditions
and that of their followers and at the same time encouraging them to
keep these divergences growing".
The
plan is destined to be executed quickly and furiously, such as the
actions taken by the mayors of Washington, Mauricio Macri and Michel
Temer, with a scandalous history of corruption, transformed by the
Empire into "leaders of transparency" who took measures in hours for the destruction of the national States with the certainty of the firing of a missile.It demands the US plan to make the Maduro government unsustainable by forcing it to give in, negotiate or escape. The
Plan to end in very short terms with the so-called "dictatorship" of
Venezuela calls for "increasing internal instability to critical levels,
intensifying the decapitalization of the country, the flight of foreign
capital and the deterioration of the national currency, through the
application of new inflationary measures that increase this deterioration ".Another objective is "to obstruct all imports and at the same time
discourage potential foreign investors" for -and you see the capitalist
goodness- "to contribute to making the situation of the population more
critical".It
also covers the plan, in its eleven pages, "appeal to domestic allies
as well as other people inserted in the national scenario with the aim
of generating protests, riots and insecurity, pillage, looting, robbery,
assaults and kidnappings of ships and other means of transports, with the intention of depleting the country, across all
borders and other possible ways, endangering the national security of
its neighbors. "They
consider it important to "cause victims" to point out as responsible
those facts the rulers "magnifying, facing the world the humanitarian
crisis, to which the country is subjected", using the lie of a
generalized corruption of the rulers and linking the government to the drug
trafficking to discredit its image in front of the world and its
domestic followers ", in addition to promote" the fatigue among the
members of the PSUV (Unified Socialist Party of Venezuela) inciting to
the nonconformity among themselves, so that they break noisily the
relations with the government and for that they reject the measures and restrictions that also affect them
"and make them as weak as the opposition," creating friction between the
PSUV and Somos Venezuela ".The proposal is going up in tone, as when calling to "structure a plan
to achieve the desertion of the most qualified professionals in the
country, to leave them without professionals at all, which will further
aggravate the internal situation and in this sense blame the
government."The military handAs
in a suspenseful novel, the document calls for "using army officers as a
definitive solution alternative" and "continuing to harden the
condition within the Armed Forces to carry out a coup d'état, before the
end of the 2018, if this crisis does not make the dictatorship collapse or the dictator does not decide to step aside ".Understanding
that all the above can fail and with evident contempt for the
opposition, calls "continue the continuous fire on the border with
Colombia, multiply the traffic of fuel and other goods, the movement of
the paramilitaries, armed incursions and drug trafficking, provoking
armed incidents with the security forces of the Venezuelan border and
also "recruiting paramilitaries mostly from the refugee camps in Cúcuta,
La Guajira and northern Santander, areas long populated by Colombian
citizens who emigrated to Venezuela and now returned, fleeing the regime that intensified the destabilization between the borders
between two countries, using the empty space left by the FARC, the
belligerence of the ELN and the activities in the area of the Gulf
cartel (paramilitaries). "Here
comes the final strike when it is planned to "prepare the involvement
of allied forces in support of the Venezuelan Navy officers or to
control the internal crisis in case the initiative is delayed [...]
establishing a timeline quick to prevent the dictator from continuing to gain control of the internal scenario. If it were necessary to act before the elections stipulated for next
April, "in fact they will be on May 20 and they will no longer recognize
them.
The
crux of the matter is "to obtain the cooperation support of the allied
authorities of friendly countries (Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Panama
and Guyana). Organize supplies, troops, logistical and medical support from Panama. Make good use of the facilities of electronic surveillance and smart signals; of
hospitals and equipment deployed in Darién (Panamanian jungle), the
drone equipment of Plan Colombia, as well as the lands of the former
military bases of Howard and Albroock (Panama), as well as those
belonging to Río Hato. In addition, in the United Nations Regional Humanitarian Center,
designed for situations of catastrophe and humanitarian emergency, which
has an air landing field and its own warehouses "We
are already talking about an intervention scenario where it is proposed
to "advance the basification (parking) of fighter jets and helicopters,
armored vehicles, intelligence positions and special military logistics
units (police, military officers and prisons) [...] Develop the military operation under the international flag, sponsored by the
Conference of Latin American Armies, under the protection of the OAS and
the supervision, in the legal and media context, of General Secretary
Luis Almagro. ""Declaring the need for the Continental Command to strengthen the
action, using the instrument of the inter-American democratic chapter,
with the objective of avoiding the democratic rupture."And
even more, "uniting Brazil, Argentina, Colombia and Panama to
contribute to the best number of troops, make use of their geographical
proximity and experience in operations in forested or jungle regions. Strengthening its international status with the presence of combat units from the United States and the aforementioned nations; under the general command of the Joint Chiefs of Staff led by the United States. "It
is amazing the impunity with which everything is being prepared in the
back of the people, in absolute illegality, and this makes
understandable the last military maneuvers of the United States in this
region on the border of Brazil with Venezuela (Brazil, Peru, Colombia), the South Atlantic (United States, Chile, Great Britain, Argentina),
in the Argentine case, without authorization from Congress in
October-November."Using
the facilities of the Panamanian territory for the rearguard and the
capabilities of Argentina for the security of its ports and of the
maritime positions [...] Propose to Brazil and Guyana to make use of the
migratory situation to which we intend to encourage in the border with Guyana. Coordinate support to Colombia, Brazil, Guyana, Aruba, Curacao,
Trinidad and Tobago and other states against the flow of Venezuelan
migrants due to the events of the crisis. "But
also "promote international participation in this effort as part of the
multilateral operation with contributions from States, non-state
agencies and international bodies, and provide adequate logistics,
intelligence, support, anticipating especially the most valuable points
in Aruba, Puerto Carreño, Inirida, Maicao, Barranquilla and Sincelejo, in Colombia, and Roraima, Manaus and Boavista in Brazil ". Incredible map of an announced intervention war.Strategic informationIt
is amazing the plan to silence "the symbolism of the presence of
Chávez's representativeness and popular support" and maintain the
harassment "of the dictator as the sole responsible for the crisis in
which he has submerged the nation" and his closest followers , who will be accused of the crisis and the impossibility of leaving it.In another paragraph it is called to "intensify the discontent against
the Maduro regime and point out the incompetence of the integration
mechanisms created by the regimes of Cuba and Venezuela, especially the
ALBA (Bolivarian Alliance of the Peoples of Our America) and
Petrocaribe."Regarding
the media theme, the plan designed by the United States calls for
increasing the dissemination of messages designed and based on
testimonies and publications originating in the country, using all the
capabilities, within the country through the local and foreign media. possible, including social networks, and on the other hand "call
through the media to the need to put an end to that situation because it
is essentially unsustainable."In
one of its last paragraphs it is about "securing" or showing the use of
violent means by the dictatorship to obtain international support,
using "all the capabilities of the Psychological War of the United
States Navy". That is, repeating the same scenarios of lies, armed with news, false
photographs and videos, and everything used in the colonial wars of the
21st century. "The United States should
support internally the American States that support it", raise the
image of these and the "multilateral order of institutions of the
inter-American system, as instruments for the solution of regional
problems. Promote the need to send the UN Military
Force for the imposition of peace, once the corrupt dictatorship of
Nicolás Maduro is overthrown. "
The journalist Vladimir Villegas. Credit: Globovisión
The
Venezuelan journalist, Vladimir Villegas, repudiated comments made Thursday by
the Minister of Communication and Information, Jorge Rodríguez, about the
attendance of presidential candidate Henri Falcón on his program, Vladimir a la
1 (Vladimir at 1), broadcasted by Globovisión, claiming that he was the only
one being interviewed in that segment.
"If you have any
questions or some kind of evidence of anything that appears weird to you, you
can share it," Villegas said to the minister.
Along that line,
Villegas pointed out that the president and candidate for re-election, Nicolás
Maduro, had not been on his program, Vladimir at 1, despite having been invited
on many occasions: "I could ask, for example, why President Maduro has not
wanted to come on my show, we have requested it of him several times."
"Jorge, you know
very well that I have written to you, personally asking you that you coordinate
this interview with President Maduro, who is invited on the program as many
times as he wants, on Vladimir at 1, or any other spot on Globovisión," he
declared.
In the end, Villegas
mentioned that the National Electoral Council should execute an
"absolutely impartial" audit on the practices of public media during
the political campaign.
These were the
statements from the Minister of Communication and Information, Jorge Rodríguez.
