Venezuelan Dictator Nicolás Maduro’s Anti-Democratic Maneuvers Exposed: Latest Updates on Presidential Candidates Banned by Regime

2024-03-26 15:11:20
Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro points to the sky as he is taken to the National Electoral Commission (CNE) to formalize his candidacy to run again for the presidency in Caracas. The candidates with the greatest electoral possibilities were banned by the regime (AP)

Nicolás Maduro made fun of almost everyone. Only his allies, bosses and political accomplices – Daniel Ortega, Miguel Díaz-Canel, the Evo Morales-Luis Arce tandem, Lula Da Silva and Andrés Manuel López Obrador – could be aware of the anti-democratic maneuvers that have taken place since the beginning of the electoral nomination campaign and they ignored endorsing them. He did not make fun of them. The Brazilian, spokesperson for the Brics in the region and who always supported his Caribbean neighbor, maintains absolute silence despite the fact that he himself reported having been banned from participating in the 2018 elections due to his multiple causes of corruption.

The regime’s last blow to democracy was this Monday, when it prevented Corina Yoris from registering her name as a candidate. She was the option with the best chance of unseating the Caribbean despot and she had been blessed by María Corina Machado – the most popular politician in the country – to replace her in the face of the illegal blocking of her own presidential candidacy. Miraflores knows that any ballot titled “Corina” will shake its structure.

But at the last minute of the deadline for registering candidates, the figure of Manuel Rosales emerged. 71 years old and governor of the second most populous state in Venezuela, Zulia, he is looked askance by opponents. Who is really Rosales?: “He is part of the opposition coalition, but at the same time the closest to Chavismo,” says a Venezuelan analyst familiar with the corridors of power. Suspicions about this last-minute protagonist arise from the permission they gave him to return to the country after having been exiled. “Maduro chose the worst opposition candidate to make it extremely difficult for María Corina Machado to transfer her votes,” the source added.

But there was a strong rumor in the early hours of this Tuesday. The National Electoral Council (CNE) would have accepted a last entry at 1 am. He would be applicant number 13. During the day, that Chavista collegiate body will inform if he meets the requirements. No one knows which party he would belong to, although some suspect that he could be a man from the Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD). Will it be the last instance for the opposition to present a unified name?

Not everyone was silent in this historic hour. Luis Lacalle Pou was the one who led the regional condemnation of the crude Chavista maneuver. Uruguay always stands as an institutional lighthouse. It was his government that promoted the joint statement signed by Argentina, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Paraguay, Peru and his country. Left out, for the moment, are Chile and Colombia, whose presidents – Gabriel Boric and Gustavo Petro – always wait a little longer to analyze the obvious. They prefer to get involved in Middle East disputes and, to the extent possible, criticize Israel.

“These restrictions – the impossibility of Yoris’ registration – prevent progress towards elections that allow a democratization process to be carried out in sister Venezuela,” says the complaint that asked Caracas to implement the tools so that those citizens can register in the presidential race. that met the requirements so that “the brother Venezuelan people can freely choose their next government.” Brazil and Mexico were invited to sign the document, as revealed by the Montevideo newspaper El País, but they preferred to pass this time.

The chancellor of the dictatorship, Yvan Gil, exploded over this proclamation. “It seems that there are governments that, without fear of political ridicule, want to revive the failed Lima Group, pulverized by the Bolivarian Revolution, which will also pulverize these new interventionist pretensions. The Lima Cartel is a stain on the Latin American past, it ended up in the garbage dump of history, right there this bizarre and rude pretension will end, which without a minimum of morality, intends to get involved in matters that are not its concern. However, he said nothing about the content of the statement. Ad hominem sins of someone dry of arguments.

But there is another Chavista trap. It is the impediment to voting suffered by around five million Venezuelans who had to go into exile to escape hunger, crime, political harassment and the lack of a future. Consulates and embassies do not allow the registration of those citizens who meet the formal requirements to cast their vote. The CNE had announced that starting March 18 and until April 16, a special operation to register and update the Electoral Registry would be carried out in all Venezuelan consulates abroad. However, this is still far from being fulfilled. Another ambush against democracy.

Maduro no longer knows how many hands to put in the polls to avoid his electoral collapse.

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