Defeated dictatorship agonizes with falsifications, state-terrorism, and a functional opposition bent on demobilizing the people from Venezuela

(Interamerican Institute for Democracy) Under the extraordinary leadership of Maria Corina Machado and the international recognition of President-Elect Edmundo Gonzales Urrutia, three weeks after the 21st Century Socialism’s electoral disaster in Venezuela, the people keep claiming their victory on 28 July (28-J). The dictatorship, with Nicolas Maduro as the visible head of the detrimental international intervention that Venezuela endures, has caused the nation to agonize with falsifications, State-terrorism, and the reactivation of a functional opposition in order to instill fear and demobilize the victorious people.

The lessons of organization, persistence, and resistance shown by Venezuelans to Castrochavism, or 21st Century Socialism, are aimed at the liberation of their homeland and the Americas. Transnational organized crime knows this, reason why Cuba’s dictatorship directs and executes a criminal battle in Venezuela, its survival depends on it. Reasons why; the Para-Dictatorial governments of Lula da Silva from Brazil, Lopez Obrador from Mexico, and Petro from Colombia, simulate and are ashamed in their efforts to sustain the disgrace, and foreign extra-hemispheric dictatorships from Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea continue to unconditionally back their platform. We now see that this has gone too far as the civilized world witnesses with horror the on-going flagrant intervention, repression, and terrorism that is so great that can no longer continue with the simulation of democracy and the complicity of operators.

Twenty-First Century Socialism’s dictatorships have been defeated in Venezuela with global consequences and they have implemented an emergency internal, as well as international, strategy to indefinitely continue to wield power. They now wage a battle for the falsification of their narrative, it is the organized crime who cannot afford to surrender Venezuela because it knows that would be the beginning of the end of this criminal system, they manipulate with the façade of it being anti-imperialism.

The triumph of the Venezuelan peoples on 28-J has defeated and is getting rid of; interventionism, narcotics’ trafficking, money laundering, funding of bogus political campaigns throughout the region, human trafficking, protection of criminals, the penetration of extra-hemispheric dictatorships, the funding and protection of international terrorism, and more. The frontline is very wide and the purpose of the dispute centers on the freedom and democracy of the Americas. It is the prevalence or defeat of the principles and values of the Western civilization fighting against organized crime masked as a socialist political movement.

Venezuelan peoples, led by Maria Corina Machado and represented by President Edmundo Gonzales Urrutia have, as combat weapons; the reason, proof of a resounding electoral victory, the courage, the bloodshed and suffering of the thousands assassinated and tortured by the dictatorship, and the millions of exiles. They have done the unbelievable, unexpected, and unforeseen, they have defeated the owners and criminal manipulators of power and elections. They have defeated the “vote-catching dictatorship,” and have triumphed practically with the odds against them, they have exposed the dictatorship that only has -as its response- the commission of more crime and falsification.

The agonizing dictatorship insists on the electoral fraud that it flagrantly committed in front of the whole world to see, in-spite that the fraud has been confirmed by the Carter Center, by dozens of countries, and by the irrefutable proof of nearly 600,000 Venezuelans who performed electoral controls. Organized crime entrenches itself on lies and sustains its activities with “State-terrorism” the feared method with which the dictatorship in Cuba has remained in power for over 65 years and in Venezuela for over 25 years. It consists of “committing crime from within the government in order to INSTILL FEAR IN THE POPULATION and that way cause behaviors of subjection.” This is why Maduro has publicly ruled a prison sentence and death for María Corina Machado and Edmundo Gonzales Urrutia.

Part of State-terrorism is the broadcasting of fake news and the active return of a “functional opposition” to frighten, demotivate, and demobilize Venezuelan peoples who are decided to defend their triumph but who can also be divided and intimidated by the simulation’s operators. Just look at the social media and the news media to find dictatorship’s meddlesome apologists frightening people, assassinating Machado, and Gonzales’ reputation, inciting a new forcible emigration, and advocating the surrender of the mobilization. The moment has exposed the dictatorship’s miserable mercenaries that had previously officiated as members of the functional opposition and who today are overt operators for the sustainment of organized crime that benefits them by corruption.

Members of the functional opposition have fallen with the dictatorship and now agonize with it. They are now being identified and resist their unavoidable end when they will have to be held accountable. Their task now consists to demobilize the Venezuelan people, frightening and instilling fear in them to induce them to give-up and surrender their 28-J triumph for the benefit of the dictatorship and to the detriment of all Venezuelans and the Americas in general. Their efforts, however, are not working and Venezuela’s leadership today is in courageous and incorruptible hands … “freedom bears the name of a woman.”

*Attorney & Political Scientist. Director of the Interamerican Institute for Democracy.

Translation from Spanish by Edgar L. Terrazas