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Venezuela Descending into Chaos After "Sham" Election; Troops Firing on Protesting Voters!
JULY 30, 2024
The country of Venezuela is descending into violent chaos this morning, with citizens protesting a "sham" election in the streets, government buildings being "stormed" and armed troops opening fire upon unarmed citizens.
It began this past weekend, with a Presidential Election in Venezuela. As with most countries, the news media there undertook "Exit Polling" wherein they inquired of voters who were leaving a Polling Place, how they voted.
Once Polls in the country closed, the media began broadcasting the results of the exit polls, showing the Opposition garnering 60-65% of the vote, and incumbent President Nikolas Maduro getting 30-35%. Suddenly, during the evening, all the media were ordered by Government to STOP broadcasting the Exit Poll data. Shortly thereafter, President Nikolas Maduro was "declared" the winner. It went downhill very fast after that.
Thousands of furious Venezuelans took to the streets Monday to protest what they called a stolen election, tearing down posters of President Nicolas Maduro as the banging of pots and pans echoed through Caracas(see below).
Venezuelans weary from years of food shortages, dwindling household incomes and a leftist government criticized as authoritarian, expressed despair after the electoral council loyal to Maduro said he won a third term in Sunday's voting.
The opposition, which polls had predicted would win by a landslide, said it took more than two-thirds of the votes in the oil-rich country whose economy lies in ruins.
One opposition march left from the shantytown of Petare and reached the city center under driving rain, only to be met by civil guards who fired tear gas at the demonstrators.
View: https://x.com/officejjsmart/status/1818154936196063602
"We were robbed last night," an angry Melanie Fiser, 22, told AFP, rejecting the official results.
The National Electoral Council (CNE) gave Maduro 51 percent of the votes, against 44 percent for Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia, the soft-spoken proxy for wildly popular opposition leader Maria Corina Machado. Yet, by their own numbers, the totals PROVE outright fraud because the totals add-up to 109.2% of the vote! Here. Look:
Let's do the math: 51.2% + 44.2% + 4.6% + 4.6% + 4.6% =109.2%
Rumors are saying the military is now siding with its own citizens, and against the Maduro Regime.
Citizens are openly saying "My country is not free, it's not peaceful it's not safe and all due to two genocidal, idiotic, and selfish men, who have held onto power through corruption and violence. Pray for Venezuela, we cannot continue in this crisis any longer.
View: https://x.com/Bluntedina600/status/1817766838102901204
MY TAKE:
The situation in Venezuela before the election was not any different from the situation in our country today.We have had so many elections and Tanzanians know that the elections are stolen from them.Very recently a Tanzanian politician exposed what the Tanzanian establishement thought was a secret,but was actually not.What he said was actually a known fact,which only happened to be said by one of their own.
Now,we are in the election season and in 2025 we will be conducting our Presidential Election.Whether people will go to the polls at all,after Mr Nape's exposê which was a true fact remains to be seen.My point is that the Tanzanian Establishment must be mindful of what is happening right now as we speak in Venezuela.There is a tendency to believe that Tanzanians are cowards and or peaceful people,so they cannot take to the streets.That belief is naive and utter nonsense.Lets's take steps which needs to be taken to prevent what is taking place in Venezuela or took place in Kenya to happen here in Tanzania.Even a rubber band has an elastic limit.
