The President of the Republic, Nicolás Maduro, affirmed that the Bolivarian people took to the streets to defend Venezuela from fascism and right-wing extremists, as well as to counter calls for violence incited by the so-called ‘influencers’.
“María ‘fascista’ Machado and the influencers called for people to take to the streets. The great convener of the Bolivarian people today is fascism; if fascism says ‘I’m going to do this’ the people do it ten times more,” the president stressed this Monday during the 54th broadcast of the multiplatform program Con Maduro +.
The head of state commented that he was surprised by the mobilizations of the revolutionary people in more than 100 cities of the country. “Overflowing with joyful people, first of all, full of love; you listen to these people in the streets and what you hear are positive reflections on the future, full of love for work and rejecting foreign interventionism,” he stressed.
Maduro particularly highlighted the popular marches in the capital Caracas: “It was the overflow of the overflows.”
Right-wing candidate “is hiding”
The President of the Republic argued that representatives of the extreme right “hid their parties” because they no longer have political leaders.They hid their candidate (Edmundo González Urrutia) (…) the man has been hiding since July 28,” he said.
He said that the losing former candidate is “plunged into a brutal depression, because he knows that he himself was deceived and his family knows that they were deceived. He is a criminal, a CIA agent since 1980.”
Influencers
Maduro explained that María Corina Machado, after hiding her candidate, surrounded herself with influencers, and criticized that in the extreme right “there are no longer political parties, there are no longer political leaders, there is no longer doctrine or ideology, there is no longer a programmatic proposal; now it is a few influencers from Miami pouring out hate.”
“They believed that because the influencers in Venezuela were coming out, millions of people would take to the streets; but the Venezuelan people gave them a double lesson: first, the opposition said no to violence (…) and second, decisively, the Bolivarian and Chavista people took to the streets by the millions in a hundred cities in Venezuela,” concluded the head of state.
Earlier, the president also referred to the extremists’ plan to use so-called influencers, and pointed them out as instruments of the right that used them as “their secret weapon.”
“The influencers: Lele Pons, George Harris, who are dedicated to persecuting people, hating and calling for a military intervention against Venezuela; they made 30 TikTok lives, they have 30 million followers, but they only reached 1.2 million lives, they may have many followers, many bots, but bots do not vote, they do not march,” he emphasized during a meeting with the National Directorate of the governing party PSUV and the allied political forces of the Gran Polo Patriótico.
