The non-governmental organization Venezuela Human Rights Education and Action Program (Provea) stated in its report: Published The ministry said on Tuesday it had confirmed 24 people have been killed so far in the socialist regime’s brutal crackdown.
Nationwide protests erupted in Venezuela after the National Electoral Commission (CNE) declared Nicolás Maduro the “winner” of a sham presidential election on July 28. Venezuela’s Supreme Electoral Commission quickly certified Maduro’s “victory” within 24 hours of the polls closing, but has refused to release vote tallies or documents that would prove that Maduro won the roughly 51% of the vote that the CNE claims.
Venezuela’s opposition has contested the CNE’s “election results” and released vote tallies it said were obtained from polling stations across the country on July 28, claiming they prove that their candidate, 74-year-old former diplomat Edmundo Gonzalez, defeated Maduro by a landslide.
In some countries, united states of americahas questioned the election results asserted by the CNE and recognised Gonzalez as the winner of a fake election.
As President Maduro clings to power illegitimately through multiple rigged elections, he has received nothing but congratulations from his rogue allies, including China, Russia, Iran, Cuba, Bolivia and Nicaragua, as well as countries that have maintained friendly relations with the ruling socialist government for the past 25 years, such as Dominica, Honduras and Antigua and Barbuda.
President Maduro and his authoritarian socialist regime have responded to the protests with a fierce campaign of persecution against dissidents. Maduro said last week that his regime’s security forces had Detained More than 2,000 dissidentsRe-education” The center is being built by the socialist regime on the site of two of Venezuela’s most notorious prisons, from which Venezuelan security forces expelled inmates in late 2023.
Provere wrote in his report that most of the protests recorded Barioth Similar efforts are being undertaken in low-income areas of Caracas and other cities across the country.
“PROBEAR recorded 24 deaths at events and protests linked to the July 28 elections between Sunday, July 28, and Monday, August 5,” the NGO’s report said.
Probear said: ColectivosWitnesses said Armed Socialist gangs working for Maduro were responsible for at least nine of the registered murders. ColectivosProvea said the Bolivarian National Police’s (PNB) Strategic and Tactical Action Directorate (DAET) had been identified as responsible for two of the assassinations of protesters.
“These groups have been widely documented to have openly coordinated and participated with law enforcement in quelling demonstrations, attacking polling stations on election day, and intimidating and harassing opponents,” the report said.
Similarly, the Venezuelan National Union of Press Workers (SNTP) Condemned The Venezuelan government said on Wednesday that the Maduro regime had arbitrarily detained four journalists and graphic reporters facing “terrorism” charges for covering the protests.
The Maduro regime also uses smartphones application In addition to the social media platforms the regime developed to corner dissidents, it has resumed its persecution campaign, known as Operation Tuntun (“Knock Knock”), in which it cornered dissidents in their homes and forced them to “confess” to “crimes” and offer a “public apology” from President Maduro.
Maduro Claims The protests against the Zionist regime are part of a conspiracy of so-called “International Zionism” to topple his dictatorship. The socialist dictator has accused several regional heads of state, including Javier Milley of Argentina, Najib Bukele of El Salvador, Gabriel Boric of Chile and Daniel Novoa of Ecuador, as well as former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, Tesla CEO Elon Musk and the Spanish populist party Vox of being complicit in a “Zionist” conspiracy against him.
Foro Penal, another Venezuelan non-governmental organization, Announced Foro Penal announced on Thursday morning that it had identified 1,229 people who had been arbitrarily detained by Maduro’s forces during the protests. Of the total, Foro Penal explained that 105 were teenagers, five were indigenous people, 16 were people with disabilities, and 157 were women.
Alfredo Romero, president of Foro Penal, said: said The majority of those detained are young people, with an average age of 20, Argentine media outlet Infobae reported on Wednesday.
“A new and common pattern in these indiscriminate detentions is the restriction of the right to legal defense,” Romero said. “Private defense is not permitted. Private defense is enforced by state attorneys, hearings are held for people locked up in detention centers, and in most cases detainees are not allowed any communication with the outside world.”
“There is no communication with the families, and of course the families have no knowledge of the physical condition or health of the victims, as they have never met, spoken to or checked on them,” he continued. “In most cases, the families have never had the opportunity to speak to or see the victims, including those who are minors.”
In concluding its report, Probear condemned what it began to report were politically motivated harassment, firings and demoting of government staff.
“We warn that these acts, which may escalate in the coming days, have also been recorded in other periods of conflict and amount to politically motivated discriminatory crimes that violate labour rights and the right to personal dignity,” Provea said.
“Denying the human right to democracy and truth in elections and repressing those who demand these fundamental principles is a crime against human rights. Power and sovereignty belong to the people, and they want guarantees that their decisions and political destiny will be respected,” the report concludes.
The Venezuelan military, which has been at the forefront of the brutal crackdown on protesters and dissidents, along with the Venezuelan police,Absolute loyaltyVenezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro on Tuesday asserted that he is the “constitutional president” and “commander in chief of the armed forces.”
Christian K. Caruso is a Venezuelan author documenting life under socialism. You can follow him on Twitter. here.
