Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro holds the Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela during his briefing on the far-right post-electoral violence in the country. Photo: X/@NicolasMaduro.
The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, condemned the acts of violence committed by the far right in several parts of the country after the far-right opposition, led by MarĂa Corina Machado, refused to recognize the results of Sunday’s presidential elections. In a speech on the night of Monday, July 29, President Maduro denounced the ultra-right opposition for the violence and trying to it appear like a “spontaneous movements.” He also reported that several people involved in the violent acts have been captured.
The Venezuelan ultra right is generating this violence because it refuses to recognize the electoral results issued in the early hours of Monday morning by the National Electoral Council (CNE), which announced Nicolás Maduro Moros as the winner for the 2025-2031 presidential term.
Regarding the people detained for perpetrating acts of violence, President Maduro reported, “Several dozens of these people have been captured red handed. Eighty percent of those captured have criminal records, some of them have returned very recently on the flights sent by the gringos to Venezuela. Almost 90% of those captured have two characteristics: they are in an advanced state of drug addiction and they are armed. Drugs, weapons and madness.”
He also showed videos of several attacks on public property carried out by the guarimberos (violent demonstrators).
They set fire to a CNE office in Coro, FalcĂłn state.
They attacked and destroyed part of a TransCaracas station on Avenida Fuerzas Armadas in Caracas, near Las Flores market.
(VIDEO) Maduro muestra imágenes de guarimberos que atacaron y destruyeron parte de una estación de TransCaracas en la Av. Fuerzas Armadas de Caracas, cerca del mercado de Las Flores pic.twitter.com/FOU0Au9zoy
— Luigino Bracci Roa (@lubrio) July 30, 2024
They destroyed a statue of Indio Coromoto and dragged it through the streets of Guanare, Portuguesa state.
(VIDEO) Maduro muestra cĂłmo guarimberos destruyeron estatua del Indio Coromoto y lo arrastran poir las calles de Guanare, estado Portuguesa pic.twitter.com/sEbYAyLC6J
— Luigino Bracci Roa (@lubrio) July 30, 2024
They tore down a statue of Hugo Chávez in Plaza BolĂvar-Chávez in La Guaira, and another one in Carabobo state.
(VIDEO) Maduro muestra cĂłmo guarimberos derribaron la estatua de Hugo Chávez en la Plaza BolĂvar-Chávez de La Guaira, y otra en el estado Carabobo. pic.twitter.com/CRkVAQo3l7
— Luigino Bracci Roa (@lubrio) July 30, 2024
A person was chased and beaten by a violent mob in El Silencio (Caracas).
(VIDEO) Maduro muestra cómo guarimberos persiguen y agarran a golpes a una persona en El Silencio (Caracas). Señala que la persona está fuera de peligro. pic.twitter.com/voo1awkIS2
— Luigino Bracci Roa (@lubrio) July 30, 2024
They also burned a young man’s car.
(VIDEO) Muestra Maduro cĂłmo los guarimberos opositores queman el carro de un muchacho pic.twitter.com/OcjxvxrVrH
— Luigino Bracci Roa (@lubrio) July 30, 2024
A collection center for the CLAP (community food supply program of the government) was set on fire in Macarao, Caracas.
(VIDEO) Muestra Maduro cĂłmo incendiaron un centro de acopio para los CLAP (bolsas de comida para las comunidades) en Maracao, Caracas. pic.twitter.com/1pc4C3AKaZ
— Luigino Bracci Roa (@lubrio) July 30, 2024
The municipal building of Quibor, Lara state, was set on fire.
(VIDEO) Maduro denuncia la quema de la alcaldĂa de QuĂbor, estado Lara, por parte de guarimberos. pic.twitter.com/YCaBSVmlFU
— Luigino Bracci Roa (@lubrio) July 30, 2024
A police post was destroyed and robbed in La California, east of Caracas (Sucre municipality).
(VIDEO) Maduro denuncia que guarimberos destrozan y roban puesto de la policĂa en La California, este de Caracas (municipio Sucre) pic.twitter.com/iJATO5v7yl
— Luigino Bracci Roa (@lubrio) July 30, 2024
The municipal building of Carirubana in FalcĂłn state was set on fire.
(VIDEO) Maduro denuncia que guarimberos quemaron alcaldĂa de Carirubana en el estado FalcĂłn y muestra video pic.twitter.com/e4I1H7FPpN
— Luigino Bracci Roa (@lubrio) July 30, 2024
President Maduro, accompanied by National Assembly Deputy Diosdado Cabello, reported that the detainees confessed that they are being paid $150 per day to commit the acts of violence. He added that the investigation is in progress and “a good part of them are already talking. Instructions have already been given by the Attorney General’s Office to search for and arrest the masterminds and financiers of these criminal groups.”
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He added that the violent gangs received precise orders of where to act and what to attack, and that it was the extreme right that made the plan. The sector had been crying fraud since before the July 28 presidential election.
He reported that these groups caused damages equivalent to 10% of what they did in the guarimbas of 2013 led by Henrique Capriles, of 2014 with La Salida of MarĂa Corina Machado and Leopoldo LĂłpez, and in 2017 led by Julio Borges.
Translation: Orinoco Tribune
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