From our Bureau of Socialist Fair and Free Elections with some assistance from our Bureau of Leftist Latrine American Totalitarian Hellholes
When hard left news media admit that a leftist dictator is guilty of election fraud, you know you’re dealing with very real cheating. The UK’s hard left Guardian has posted an article detailing how Maduro’s opposition collected convincing proof of his cheating, and even praises it as “a brilliant political move.” Meanwhile, El Niuyortain, is highlighting Maduro’s heavy-handed “authoritarian” repression.
Steadfastly rejecting any negotiation with the opposition, and following the Castro, Inc. playbook, puppet dictator Maduro has urged opposition leader María Corina ‘to surrender’.” The country’s supreme court –packed with Maduro supporters — will proclaim him winner of the election, and, according to Maduro, that will be the final word.
Abridged from El Niuyortain (New York Times)
The Venezuelan government has mounted a furious campaign against anyone challenging the declared results of the vote, unleashing a wave of repression that human rights groups say is unlike anything the country has seen in recent decades.
“I have been documenting human rights violations in Venezuela for many years and have seen patterns of repression before,” said Carolina Jiménez Sandoval, president of the Washington Office on Latin America, an advocacy and research organization. “I don’t think I have ever seen this ferocity.”
The Venezuelan government says it has arrested more than 2,000 people for participating in protests disputing the election results.
People were taken both in indiscriminate roundups, amid the protests, and later from their homes in targeted arrests, as the government launched what it called “Operation Knock-Knock,” according to interviews with family members and human rights activists documenting the detentions.
The surge in detentions is particularly alarming, rights groups say, because some arrests came after the president urged his supporters to snitch on their neighbors, using a government app that was supposed to be used to report issues like downed power lines.
“Maximum punishment! Justice!” Mr. Maduro said at a rally last Saturday. “There will be no forgiveness this time!”
The result has been an aggressive crackdown on dissent designed to silence anyone who dares question the election results, human rights activists said.
At least two human rights lawyers are in jail, including one who was arrested when he went to inquire about other detainees. Another activist was taken from the Caracas airport when she tried to leave the country.
Human rights activists and journalists learned in recent days that the government had annulled their passports, effectively trapping them in Venezuela.
People are leaving their houses without their phones, fearing that the authorities will stop them on the street and look at their messages for objectionable content. One man in Zulia was arrested after the police found a meme critical of the elections on his phone, his family said.
“It’s difficult to express in words the intensity and the indiscriminate nature of this wave of arrests,” said Gonzalo Himiob, vice president of the Penal Forum, a human rights organization tracking arrests since the elections.
Using civilian supporters to inform on neighbors has echoes of what has happened in Cuba, where the Communist government has long deployed an extensive network of community-based informants.
It was and remains in the hands of the army to end Venezuela’s nightmare, but apparently it’s been corrupted sufficiently that it prefers eternal disgrace and ignominy to doing the right thing.
As for lack of protective equipment, you know the drill: they cannot afford that because of the “blockade.”
Maduro is stupid and crude like his regime. However, even clever people with more finesse could not cheat on such a scale with plausible deniability. Unlike the 2020 US presidential election, this was not even remotely close–a good 80% of the vote went against Maduro. So, even the usual media suspects cannot support such blatant fraud with plausible deniability.