Venezuela’s socialist dictator Nicolas Maduro announced over the weekend that his regime has detained at least 2,000 Venezuelans as part of an ongoing crackdown on protests against his attempts to rig the July 28 presidential election.
“We have taken 2,000 prisoners, who will be sent from there to Tocoron and Tocuito. [Venezuelan prisons]”Maximum punishment, justice. No amnesty this time, no amnesty this time, this time Tocolon,” Maduro said. Said During a rally with supporters on Saturday.
The socialist dictator accused protesters of burning down a polling station and one of the regional headquarters of the National Electoral Center (CNE). President Maduro did not provide evidence of the accusations against the opposition.
“They have all confessed, because a rigorous legal process led by the Attorney General’s Office was carried out with full guarantees, and they have all been found guilty and confessed,” Maduro said.
Venezuela is experiencing a new political crisis following the fake presidential elections held on Sunday, July 28. The Venezuelan National Electoral Center, which is fully controlled by the Maduro regime, is the official name of the socialist dictator “Winner” He was “re-elected” to a new six-year term in a sham election with approximately 51 percent of the vote.
Venezuela’s opposition has disputed the CNE’s “results” and claimed that their candidate, Edmundo Gonzalez, was the actual winner of the fake election. The opposition claims to own around 80% of the votes collected from polling stations across the country. according to To them, this proves that Gonzalez won a landslide victory over Maduro by more than 35 percentage points of the vote.
President Maduro also called on Venezuela’s highest court, the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ), to “review“The alleged results of a fake election. The TSJ is another institution that is totally controlled by the ruling socialists. Openly Pledge allegiance to Maduro.
The situation has led to protests across the country and has seen dramatic crowd actions. Falling over Some of the bronze statues of the late dictator Hugo Chavez that socialists have erected around the country. The Maduro regime has responded to protests with its characteristically brutal crackdown. Registered As of Sunday, some 12 people had been confirmed dead and 988 others arbitrarily detained, including 91 teenagers.
The Maduro regime’s repression has left the socialist dictator order He called for smartphone apps such as the regime-run social media platform VenApp to add a feature that would allow users to report and “confront” dissidents.
Furthermore, strict controls Reboot “Operation Tuntun” is a campaign against dissidents that was first introduced in 2017 by socialist strongman and suspected drug lord Diosdado Cabello.
Operation Tuntun (“Knock Knock”) was a Venezuelan Christmas Songs The campaign, which calls on people to open their doors to “people of peace,” has seen Maduro’s security forces hunt down and persecute Venezuelan dissidents who wage “hate” campaigns against the authoritarian regime, either directly or through social media. The Maduro regime urges citizens to denounce dissidents, who are visited by security forces and arrested in their homes.
Following arrests, the Maduro regime forces detained individuals to make “confessions” and “apologies” to dictator Maduro and his socialist regime, which are then published by Maduro regime officials via their social media accounts.
Iris Margarita Rincón Villasmil, a quien se le incautó un (01) telefono cellular conmaterial de interés… pic.twitter.com/d5nBnEpv5A
— M/G Elio Estrada Paredes (@ElioEstrada18) August 3, 2024
“Operation Tan Tan is just beginning. Please report if you have been the target of a hate campaign, physical or virtual, through social media,” CICPC Police Chief Douglas Rico said. Posts On his Instagram account.
Last week, Maduro Said The administration warned that it would send detained protesters to Tocorón and Tocuito prisons, two prisons that the ruling Socialist Party emptied of inmates in late 2023. Tocorón prison was known to have served as the headquarters of the international crime organization Tren de Aragua and was subsequentlyAttackedIn September 2023, the “Tren de Aragua” movement was launched by Venezuelan security forces, leading to the “disappearance” of Tren de Aragua’s leader, Hector “The Child” Guerrero.
Maduro said the two prisons would become “re-education centers” for detained protesters and said he was “taking a gamble” that dissidents would be re-educated.
“We’re betting that these maximum security prisons will be re-educated and become productive farms where inmates can produce and work, just like they did when they were taken to build the highways,” he continued.
The CNE has refused to release voting results confirming Maduro’s “victory”, resulting in the socialist dictator’s claimed victory being called into question by international organizations and several governments around the world. Argentina and Chile They allege that the purported results are fraudulent.
In countries such as AmericaPeru, Ecuador, Costa Rica, Uruguay, Panama, etc. Recognized Gonzalez was the winner of the election and the European Union Announced On Sunday, the opposition released a tally showing that Gonzalez “is expected to win the presidential election by a large margin.”
In contrast, Russia, China, Cuba, Nicaragua, North Korea, Bolivia, Honduras, and Caribbean countries such as Dominica, Grenada, and Antigua and Barbuda that have historically aligned with Venezuela’s socialist regime. list Countries that recognized Maduro as the “winner” of the fake election.
Christian K. Caruso is a Venezuelan author documenting life under socialism. You can follow him on Twitter. here.
