HAVANA, Cuba. – Two days after the results of the elections in Venezuela were published, and once again the deceitful and violent nature of Chavismo was confirmed, Venezuelans are still in the streets defending their right to transparency, change, and democracy. The situation has quickly gotten out of hand for the government, which, not content with having blatantly stolen the votehas expelled diplomats from countries that do not recognize the legitimacy of the elections and demanded the arrest of opposition leaders Maria Corina Machado and Edmundo González, president elected by popular will, as shown by 75% of the minutes.
The defeat of Chavismo is a fact, although Maduro and his clique refuse to admit it and have decided to respond with repression and conspiracy theories. Their discourse is identical to that of the Havana regime, the intellectual and material author of the tragedy that took hold of Venezuela after the arrival of Hugo Chavez to power, turning a free and prosperous country into a narco-state, a preserve of corruption and misery, a nation of migrants, as Cuba has been for six decades.
Only the regional scourge has given its support to Maduro and spread the farce that the revolts in the South American country are encouraged by the United States. The Organization of American States (OAS) called an extraordinary session to address the Venezuelan crisis aggravated by the theft of the elections and to foresee what could happen if hostilities continue to escalate.
Behind what is happening today in the land of Bolívar, the darkest interests are at work. The ultra-left, led by the Cuban dictatorship and supported by the Kremlin, knows what the fall of Chavismo would mean, both economically and symbolically. In Havana, they are nervous because the loss of their ally would be a mortal blow. Despite the sanctions and the sharp decline in shipments in recent years, the Maduro regime continues to provide fuel to the government of Miguel Díaz-Canel to prevent the last shreds of the Cuban economy from disintegrating.
Seen in this way, not only is the freedom of a brave people who have suffered for more than two decades under totalitarianism being decided on the streets of Venezuela, but also the possibility that Cuba is one step closer on its path to the democracy that was taken from it. Fidel Castro in 1959. The images of Venezuelans tearing down statues of Chavez, standing up to armed police and paramilitaries who promise to repeat the events of the riots of 2014 and fulfill their promises The “bloodbath” that Maduro promised In one of his appearances prior to the vote, today he captured the attention of thousands of Cubans who follow the events with the hope of seeing the host of neo-Castroism destroyed.
At this crucial time, and despite the fact that the Minister of Defense, Vladimir Padrino López, has spoken out in favor of Madurofurther complicating the situation, many media outlets have echoed the result announced by the National Electoral Council (CNE), whose president is loyal to the ruling party. These and other details should be enough for the international media to at least qualify the alleged victory and focus all their attention on the consequences of rigging an election that had capitalized on the hopes of millions of Venezuelans.
Maduro is deeply unpopular and he knows it. From the beginning he made a fool of everyone, especially the United States, which lifted sanctions in exchange for supposedly free elections, while Chavismo kept its usual cards up its sleeve. Such naivety on the part of those who call themselves “think tanks” seems incredible, especially since, given the circumstances, it is impossible to predict how the conflict that concerns only Venezuelans will end.
Now that the brave people have expressed their will at the polls and the ruling power insists on ignoring them, what will happen? What “friendly” nation will stand between the cronies and the bullets that are already being fired at them? What is the death toll required for the international community to take action?
Maduro speaks of interference when the Cuban regime has spent decades inoculating the methods and habits of terror in the political, military and police forces of Chavismo, to the point that everything that is done and said in that country seems like a carbon copy of the behavior of the Cuban henchmen and the Cuban Communist Party.
Both dictatorships are inextricably and fatally linked. If Chavismo falls, the Havana regime, which is already dying, will receive another devastating blow. Vladimir Putin, with his numerous war expenses, cannot “give” more crude oil to his Caribbean mistress; nor can Andrés Manuel López Obrador continue to squeeze the indebted PEMEX so that his partners in the Central Committee continue to thrive on beatings and starvation. It is time to close ranks with Venezuela, for the good of that beautiful country, for the good of Cuba and for all of Latin America.
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