PUERTO PADRE, Cuba.- I confess that I was deluded, yes, naive. And in my case, overconfidence is dangerous due to forgetfulness, because from a very young age my father had warned me: “The shortest path to defeat is to underestimate the strength of your opponent.” But last Thursday, forgetting my father’s wise advice, I told two friends: “Maduro is a bully from a hardware store… We are going to win in Venezuela.For their own good and for the good of Cuba and America.”
“Let us wait then… and for those millions of Venezuelans to come out and vote against him,” my young editor replied, but Tommy, a journalist seasoned in the business of sniffing out criminals, gave me the silent treatment. How wise was Tomás’ silence! No. Nicolás Maduro is not a hardware store bully, as I said, and as he demonstrated yesterday, Maduro is a bully, yes, but he is not a mere object on a trinket shelf, but rather he is the owner of the hardware store in which Castro-Chavismo transformed Venezuela.
And, well, it would have been if the only one who was deluded had been me, but it turns out that like me, there have been millions of people around the world who have been deceived, believing, as we did, that Nicolás Maduro I would respect the vote of the Venezuelan peopleand no less…!, in an “election” called on Hugo Chávez’s 70th birthday, so it is worth asking: Can anyone in their right mind believe that Nicolás Maduro would call “elections” on July 28 to declare Chavismo dead on the day of Chávez’s birth…?
If the prevention of international observers was not assessed as it was, proof of the crime in ideal competition, and if the common citizen did not have the tools to notice how the vote of Venezuelan citizens would be stolen by Nicolás Maduro and his cronies, we must admit that those of us who, in our capacities, do possess the instruments to record the crime, from its conception stage to its perpetration, must admit that we failed our communities by sitting and waiting for an event that logic did not point to, such as thinking that, due to the multitudinous opposition vote, it would be accepted by Maduro and his tribe of assailants of public powers.
I spent this Sunday of elections in Venezuela following the news and signs that were produced there. And it may have been a coincidence, but in operational work we do not believe in coincidences, because precisely, in this task of symbols, to a large extent the work is concerned with making pass as fortuitous what in reality has been planned for days, months or years, and I had no doubts about how the theft of the opposition votes was already being premeditatedly committed, when without words Nicolás Maduro announced his “victory”, first, at the moment of depositing his vote, because on a sign behind him could be read something like “Happy Holidays”, holidays for whom…? And then Maduro, already after five in the afternoon, and as if to say, do not delude yourself, showed the champion shirt that Maradona had given him.
But these are just the details, the subtleties of a trapper with pretensions of being a great man. president “democratically elected.” In reality, in Venezuela, some things happen before and others happen after the elections, when the polling stations are closed. Venezuela is a dictatorship disguised as a democracy, because as we have seen in all these years of Castro-Chavismo, although some believe that there are independent powers there, there is no separation of jurisdictions, but rather compliance, a direct subordination of the legislative and judicial power to the executive power, that of a “president” who is not such because his origin and conduct is that of a prosaic dictator.
Thus we have seen political opponents killed, imprisoned, tortured, exiled and “disqualified” and, assisted as they are by Cubans and Russians, the calling of supposedly democratic elections so that once the citizen vote has been cast, the ballot boxes are stolen. This is today and has been before the procedure of the Venezuelan dictatorship to perpetuate itself in power.
“President Nicolás Maduro won the elections this Sunday in Venezuela with 51% of the votes (with 80% counted) reported the National Electoral Council (CNE),” I read after 00:25 hours on Monday morning in CNN Español.
And according to that report, the person who should have taken the place of the “disqualified” opposition leader, María Corina Machado, the former diplomat Edmundo González Urrutia, only obtained 44.2% of the votes, when according to all forecasts, he had in his favor 59.68% of the voting intention, while Maduro was only awarded a distant 14.64% of support at the polls, polls that for some reason, that is mathematically, the Maduro dictatorship hides.
What will happen in Venezuela after the theft of the votes of Venezuelan citizens…? Well, they have already said it. Latin American presidents democratically elected. The figures released by the Maduro regime are “hard to believe”, and in these circumstances, no government in the world elected by the ballot box should recognize the “presidency” of Nicolás Maduro, which is the result of an atrocious crime: the assault on the will of the citizens and the kidnapping of their election.
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