Venezuela's opposition calls for global protest against election results
Protests in Venezuela against the results of the 2024 presidential election (photo: Getty Images)
The Venezuelan opposition, led by Maria Corina Machado, is calling for a massive global protest against the election results this Saturday, August 17. The protesters want to loudly declare the victory of the opposition candidate Edmund Gonzalez Urrutia.
The opposition is also calling on the Venezuelan diaspora to support the planned action in Madrid, Buenos Aires, Bogotá and Santiago de Chile.
Machado is calling on her supporters to take to the streets of Caracas and other cities in Venezuela with the election results protocols that the opposition published on the website after the government agencies controlled by the government of Nicolas Maduro refused to provide official data.
"Let the world see that we will not allow our victory to be stolen," she said.
The activists emphasize that there was no hacker attack that allegedly affected the electoral system, and that their candidate won a fair victory. The opposition has publicly released protocols that they believe prove Urrutia's victory, but representatives of Maduro's government continue to claim that these documents are "fake."
Experts believe that the mass rallies scheduled for August 17 could be a decisive moment in the opposition's fight against the election results in Venezuela.
The Maduro regime continues to step up repression amid growing protests. Political leaders of the opposition, such as Americo De Gracia and William Davila, have been arrested without a court order. The international community is concerned that Maduro's government is blocking the passports of Venezuelan oppositionists.
Access to social media is being restricted in the country. For example, X was recently blocked for 10 days. The opposition reports threats from the Maduro government to journalists covering the protests.
Maduro is known to have even accused the opposition of allegedly preparing a "terrorist attack."
Earlier, we reported that members of the Russian PMC Wagner were spotted during the dispersal of protests in Venezuela. At the time, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that this was another example of Russia interfering in the internal affairs of other countries.
