Early Monday morning, Venezuela’s National Electoral Council (CNE) announced that President Nicolás Maduro had been re-elected President in Sunday’s elections July 28, by a 51.2% to 44.2% margin, over the leading opposition candidate Edmundo González. The opposition force backing González, led by the neoliberal ideologue Maria Corina Machado, announced that their candidate had won a landslide 70% of the vote, and called for international recognition.
The government’s failure to release the precinct-by-precinct results to back up the CNE decision is making the headlines worldwide, but, as pointed out by Brazilian President Lula da Silva’s Special Foreign Policy Advisor Celso Amorim, who was in Caracas for the elections, the opposition also has yet to release documentation to back up its claim of an overwhelming victory.
One thing is very clear, however. The same U.S.-NATO powers that invented the fraud that nobody Juan Guaidó was “President” from 2019-2022, stealing Venezuela’s foreign exchange reserves held abroad to finance that Gilbert and Sullivan-like fraud, are hyperventilating that this time, the Maduro government, which is part of China’s Belt and Road Initiative and has applied to join the BRICS, can be overthrown, the region polarized between “right” and “left,” and chaos and conflict unleashed in the region—possibly requiring U.S. intervention to restore “calm.” The Atlantic Council and Wall Street’s media (Bloomberg is a good example) are pumping out the line nonstop that opposition protests will now take off, and Venezuela’s military can thereby be induced to split over the crisis.
