Foreign Interference to Destabilize Venezuela
Shameful Actions of U.S. and Canada to Foment Counterrevolution
The Communist
Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist) condemns the U.S.
and Canada for once again fomenting
counterrevolution in
Venezuela.
They are inciting and organizing another attempt by
criminal
U.S.-backed opposition figures to carry out a coup d'état
against the
government of President
Nicolás Maduro after he defeated their candidate and was
re-elected to
a third term in the July 28 presidential election. Just
like
they did
when Maduro was elected in 2013 and re-elected in 2018,
these
coup
forces have been screaming "fraud" since an irreversible
trend
in
favour of Maduro was
identified by the National Electoral Council (CNE)
shortly after
midnight on election night. Their accusations were
followed by
the
unleashing of a campaign of terror and destruction around
the
country
with hired, drugged-up criminal elements posing as
opposition
"campaign
workers" acting as their
agents. In addition to violent attacks on people they
vandalized
schools, universities, health centres and other public as
well
as
private property, set fires, desecrated national symbols
and
tore down
monuments and statues of national heroes, including
several of
President Hugo Chávez.
For months prior to the July 28 election, leaders of the Unitary Democratic Platform (PUD) comprised of parties that backed the candidate Edmundo González Urrutia had created conditions for declaring the election to be fraudulent if their candidate did not win. González was a last minute stand-in when the real leader of the coup forces, María Corina Machado, was barred from running herself due to her long history of conspiring with the U.S. to destabilize and organize violent regime change in Venezuela.
On August 2 the official results were released by the CNE based on 96.87 per cent of the data being transmitted from polling stations. It confirmed the re-election of President Maduro who received 51.95 per cent of the votes to González's 43.18 per cent. Voter participation was 59.97 per cent. The president of the CNE emphasized that the transmission of data from the polling stations around the country was delayed due to massive cyber attacks carried out from different parts of the world against the CNE's systems. He informed that the delay was also due to the consequences of the violent acts perpetrated immediately following the release of the first electoral bulletin, which included the trashing and setting of fires in regional offices of the CNE, voting centers, and emergency result transmission centres resulting in election equipment and materials being burned.
Machado, meanwhile, had an NGO that she founded and is linked to her party create a website where allegedly "true" copies of result tallies generated by the electronic voting machines at polling centres around the country were uploaded, "proving" a landslide victory for her candidate. Despite different widely reported expert analyses of these "records" concluding that most were falsified versions of the originals, they continue to be treated unquestioningly as "proof" that the U.S.-backed candidate -- who has since run away to Spain and in all certainty from his self-serving, extremist handler -- won the election!
The official results reported by the CNE have since been confirmed as accurate by the Electoral Chamber of the Supreme Court after a review was conducted, with the only candidate refusing to participate in it being González. He, along with other candidates and representatives of parties that supported him in the PUD who did appear before the Supreme Court, all claimed they did not have access to any of the tally sheets provided to their poll observers and had nothing to do with scanning and uploading them onto the website as "proof" of González's victory.
In the end, Venezuelan authorities reported that 27 people had been killed and some 200 injured between July 28 and 29 before calm was restored with hundreds of violent saboteurs arrested and in the process of being investigated and charged with incitement to hatred, resisting authority, and, in some cases, terrorism. Of course the U.S. architects of the coup attempt blame the Venezuelan government for the killings and accuse it of repression, human rights abuses and arbitrarily arresting peaceful protestors simply demanding their democratic rights. The Canadian and other governments in Europe and elsewhere that toe the U.S. line on Venezuela served as an echo chamber for this version of events, and continue to do so, ignoring all the evidence that has come to light over the past two months, including of widespread cyber attacks from outside the country targeting state institutions in particular during and after the election, and a terrorist plot to assassinate President Maduro allegedly led by an active duty U.S. Navy Seal, and involving a number of collaborators said to be linked to Spanish intelligence, all currently in custody and talking.
Of interest, the ruling elite in the U.S. claim they want a peaceful transition of power for themselves no matter who wins the upcoming presidential election. Those in the Biden-Harris camp are making this a big issue. For example, Kamala Harris' campaign manager said in a recent statement, "For four years, Donald Trump and his MAGA allies have been scheming to sow distrust in our elections and undermine our democracy so they can cry foul when they lose." In an attempt to keep the federal criminal election subversion case against Trump going and in the public eye, U.S. prosecutors have revealed the case they will attempt to take to trial after the election. It alleges that Trump "resorted to crimes" in an effort to overturn his 2020 election defeat and always planned to declare victory no matter the result, and that he laid the groundwork for that long before election day. It also accuses him of knowingly spreading false claims about the vote.
It is these same U.S. elites and their state that are behind even more heinous crimes in their attempt to defraud the Venezuelan people and impose on them a violent "transition" to a government they did not elect. The Trudeau government with its current obsession over "foreign interference" in Canadian elections and politics is a party to this shameful activity.
This article was published in
Volume 54 Number 43 - October 14, 2024
Article Link:
https://cpcml.ca/Tmlm2024/Articles/TS544312.HTM
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