MÉRIDA, Mexico – The regime’s foreign ministry declared that it is absolutely false that computer specialists traveled from the Island to obtain the results of the presidential elections in Venezuela.
“It is absolutely false that specialists in computer science or other areas would have traveled from Cuba to Venezuela, with the purpose of modifying the results of the presidential elections in that country,” reads the official statement.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MINREX) describes the accusation as “unfounded and fabricated by former Colombian high official Francisco Santos, not accompanied by evidence, because none exists.”
The statement echoes the commonplaces of the regime’s propaganda of discrediting Santos and attributing the information to a supposed “matrix of lies that attributes responsibility to Cuba for the results achieved by the contenders in the elections in Venezuela.”
Santos, former vice president of Colombia between 2002 and 2010, He assured on July 30th that “in the warehouses of the National Electoral Council (CNE) in Filas de Mariche, Miranda state, there is a team of 150 employees of the electoral body of Venezuela, all supervised by a group of 4 Chinese engineers (manufacturers of the machines).”
The Chinese reportedly arrived “from the Cuban situation room early this morning, aboard a Conviasa flight.”
US offers amnesty to Maduro
This Sunday it became known that the US Government had offered in secret talks Amnesty and other benefits for the Chavista leadership in exchange for recognizing Edmundo González as the legitimate winner of the elections in Venezuela.
According to sources consulted by The Wall Street JournalThe Biden administration would be putting “everything on the table” as long as Maduro hands over power.
The US is reportedly offering pardons to Maduro and several of his officials, but so far the regime’s response has been to dismiss them.
The talks are said to be taking place virtually between Jorge Rodríguez, president of the Venezuelan Congress and one of the most visible figures of Chavismo, and Daniel P. Erikson, member of the White House National Security Council in charge of Venezuela.
The US election in November has been set as the deadline for negotiations and so far the US has no plans to ask Western oil companies to leave Venezuela, the report added.
Global opposition demonstration
While the electoral conflict in Venezuela is not resolved, Chavismo is entrenched with maneuvers in the Supreme Court without yet showing the minutes.
The NGO Foro Penal says that as of Saturday, 1,303 people remain in prison, including 170 women, 116 teenagers, 14 indigenous people and 16 people with disabilities.
Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado called for a “great world protest” next Saturday, August 17, to defend the election results.
“Find the voting certificate for your center at http://resultadosconvzla.com, print it and bring it to the rally in your city. Let the world see, with the certificates in hand, that we will not let ourselves be robbed. Share this image with all your Venezuelan friends because that day we will unite inside and outside Venezuela,” he added.
The opposition to Nicolás Maduro’s regime will give details on Sunday of how the protest will be organized.
“We are going to be calling for a huge event where everyone (…) has to see the strength, determination, the decision that we Venezuelans have made, that there is no turning back,” Machado had announced on Friday.
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