A long lasting line-out plan was set up in motion on Sunday 14th April in Venezuela. Once the results of the presidential election was made public after the computational margin made it clear enough to announce them to the nation, then a combination of factors inside and outside Venezuela kick off what was previously agreed: declare the election “fraudulent”, and give not recognition what so ever to the legitimacy to all powers in Venezuela, all institutions most be overturned. It is basically a cut through the fabric of Venezuela. Once Chavez is gone, and the electoral margin is narrower, the power must be theirs, by force if necessary.
Bolivarian candidate Nicolas Maduro won the Venezuelan presidential election by a narrow margin. With 99.12% of the votes counted, there was a 78.71% turn out, with Maduro receiving 7,505,378 votes (50.66%), and Capriles 7,270,403 votes (49.07%).
The first attack was against the newly elected president Nicolas Maduro, calling him “illegitimate”, and then asking all opposition radicals “to vent their anger” against president supporters. The tragedy that very day was bloody and deadly: 8 people killed, and more than 70 injured. More casualties has been added once the critical condition of the injuries deteriorate into fatal results. Henrique Capriles toll of anger is reaching 11 deaths, all of them related to the 15th April dark Monday.
The list of victims killed by the opposition factions dragged into this neo-fascism and shaped by ill leadership are:
- Jose Ponce , 45, timber worker, from Limonera Baruta, Miranda State. He was shot dead.
- Luis Garcia, from Zulia State.
- Endar Bastardo, from Zulia State. He was shot dead.
- Rosiris Reyes, 41, from Limonera Baruta, Miranda State. She was shot injured but it didn’t survived the wounds.
- Jose Ospino, from Junín, Táchira State.
- Leonardo Vera, from San Cristobal, Táchira.
- Henry Rangel, 32, from Santa Ana, Cordoba, Táchira. He was shot dead.
- Gerardo Rico, from San Cristobal, Táchira. He died after 23 days in a comma condition due to a severe beating by Capriles supporters.
- Keller Guevara, police officer from San Cristobal, Táchira.
- Rey Sanchez, from San Cristobal, Táchira. He died after being chase and heat by a car.
- Jose Hernandez, from San Cristobal, Táchira. He died after being chase and heat by a car, together with Rey Sanchez.
The second move was to attack the Electoral National Council (CNE), by challenging a 100% audit on all boxes. That audit was granted, even unusual for unnecessary once the system has been thoroughly audited 17 times in all its stages by all political parties before, during, and after the election. Capriles own deputies signed as good the results of every of these audits. Capriles then decided to ignore the 100% audit, because he does not recognised the CNE as transparent institution. The audit was scheduled to be complete in 30 days with the presence of all political parties, but Capriles refuse to take part in it; however, all other presidential candidates will be in this audit that Capriles initially demanded. The CNE has filled the vaccum left by Capriles by inviting several civic organizations to witness the audit and verify what Capriles did not bother to see.
The third step was against the National Assembly. By ignoring the legitimacy of the president, the opposition factions try to put the house against the president. The fight inside the house spurted into incendiary speeches, and the next week an organize physical fight was set in motion by opposition, for a camera man to pick up the best angles. Lots of noisy vuvuzelas, pepper sprays against the females MP that support president Maduro, throwing chairs at the government supporters, personal attacks on the speaker, and physical harassment on any that offer resistance. One MP arrived that day wearing a helmet to the parliamentary session. What for could it be may I wonder? The news of the fight spark all over this tiny planet Earth. The move was a total success, the image of the Venezuelan parliament was on the floor badly damage. No media outlet spread the word of the 10 killing of the government supporters few days earlier, but the face brushes that some opposition manufactured by teasing to the limit on their counterparts was widely distribute to all of us to react upon.
The fourth move was to file a sue against the CNE challenging the results into the Justice Supreme Court (TSJ). The evidence presented will be addressed in the Electoral Justice branch and the Constitutional Court in due term once the evidences of all their allegations were discharged, contested and cross examined. However, Capriles decided not to wait the audience but to denounce the court itself in the international level as a “bias” institution. His claims changed from a recount of the results, to ask a full new election, without legal frame to do so. At this point the attack on the TSJ was completed by calling its overrun by foreign courts, without allowing the national power to examine his demands.
All nations, except one, have recognised Nicolas Maduro as the constitutional president of Venezuela. The exception is United States that keep pulling the streams behind Capriles.
Venezuela has 5 national powers, four out of five have been subject to severe attacks by the opposition in the last weeks. The president declared “illegitimate”, CNE declared “not transparent neither reliable”, National Assembly as a place were “not debate is possible”, but violence and beatings; and the Supreme Court has been labelled as “bias and self-servicing” The last national power is the Moral Power, where the citizens seen their human rights defended, where corruption is watched and denounced, where the National Attorney accused the offenders. I think the next move will open severe human right violations forcing this institution to step in robustly to contain and control the violence. But if a mercenary violence is general, confuse and monstrous, as we see it in Libya for example, then the table for a US foreign intervention is served, and Capriles puppeteers will succeed in this master minded plan.
Example of a Venezuelan opposition supporter protesting in UK on 20th April 2013 in front of the Embassy, and asking for intervention against Venezuela.
How to stop this escalating fascism under the umbrella of western powers? I think is our duty to denounce it and made all in our hands to disenfranchise the young people that buy it face value without learning the lessons history has given us already.
Stop the killings, respect the democratic will the people have constructed together, collectively. Recognise the opposition, but recognise the legitimate mandate the people had gave to the government. President Maduro is calling for mutual respect and peaceful construction of a homeland that satisfy all, he is not agreeing into a “pact” with the top elite, but with the society as a whole. However, the level of nurtured distrust on the institutions, bitterness in the hearts of many, rage of the few and then blood has reached the shores, once again. Like in 2002 coup d'état against Chavez, US and allies are more than ever interested to pull the events into their self serving fold.
Nothing good will come out if we watch this growing fascist threat against democracy. Let’s not be repentant, let’s get active responsible defenders of Venezuela.
CNE: Consejo National Electoral
TSJ: Tribunal Supremo de Justicia
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