[News] Venezuela: Defending Maduro’s Victory is to Oppose Fascism

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Venezuela: Defending Maduro’s Victory is to Oppose Fascism
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By Carlos Aznárez, Resumen Latinoamericano, August 1, 2024


“Let them show the records!” has become the buzzword to refer to Venezuela
and its recent electoral process. Nothing less could be expected from those
who are the supporters, on the right and “left” of a bourgeois-democratic
system for which the Bolivarian Revolution has become, for the last 35
years, an enemy to be destroyed.

“Yes, let them show the details!”, some shout, imperatively, and repeat the
Organization of American States (OAS) and all those collateral
organizations of the empire, which are accomplices of wars and genocides in
different parts of the world. With this simple expression, cradled in a
gigantic operation of media terrorism, only broken by a few alternative
media spaces, the intention is to express that, as the Venezuelan
ultra-right wing said several months before the election, “there is going
to be fraud”.

>From the indisputable victory of Nicolás Maduro by more than 700 thousand
votes, and its consolidation by the National Electoral Council, which is
the only body authorized to give the definitive word on what happened on
July 28, the campaign of disregard of the Venezuelan popular sovereignty
became a slogan. They began to repeat it like parrots, from the
ultra-right, passing through the social-democrats or faded “progressives”,
including some presidents who, even if it is out of gratitude for all that
Chávez and Maduro did for their countries, should not join the inquisitive
wave. But not only that, even the butcher of a neighborhood in Colombia,
the neighbor on the fifth floor in Montevideo, the concierge of that middle
class neighborhood in Sao Paulo, or the teenager in high school in any
European country, to whom his Venezuelan classmate commented that Maduro
“is a dictator and a murderer”; they all talked to someone about the famous
“details”.

No more, no less. The world media tyranny played its hand and the answer is
what we see today. That anyone, anywhere, can take the pleasure of wanting
to meddle in the internal politics of Venezuela, and that he does it, by
acceptance or total ignorance, on the side of the fascist international.
And furthermore, buying a lie of such depth, which is that of not wanting
to recognize that in Venezuela, as in any country that has dignity and
defends it, the last word is for its people, and the people have already
expressed themselves in favor of Maduro’s reelection, reaffirming their
loyalty to a revolutionary process initiated by Commander Hugo Chávez, also
through the electoral process, in December 1998.

Of course, what is happening now is not a surprise. Especially when it
comes from other similar operations, such as those who are turning the
Russian Federation into the “murderers” of the  Ukrainian Nazis, generating
a worldwide campaign of “Russophobia” that even led to ridiculous
prohibitions and even beatings and punishments of all kinds to those who
opposed such barbarity. It is worth asking ourselves, what would happen if
those who are now so concerned about an election in Venezuela were to agree
to condemn, with the same force, Israel for its crimes against humanity
against the Palestinian people. Of course, that is another matter, but
coincidentally, those who orchestrate media terrorism operations by setting
foot in Kiev, in Caracas or in Tel Aviv, are almost always with the same
last names, be it Elon Musk, Zukerberg or some of their disciples skilled
in launching trolls or misrepresenting realities.

Now, what bothers them so much about liberated Venezuela is that they fear
that Chavismo is here to stay. Precisely, that there is within the
democratic canons that the system has prepared to control and rule.
However, from the very moment Hugo Chavez buried the “moribund
Constitution” of the Fourth Republic, a revolutionary process of direct
democracy, popular participation and step by step construction of Caribbean
socialism was set in motion, which has caused so much displeasure to the
empire and its allies. They cannot tolerate that a country, immensely
powerful in natural wealth, should be allowed to self-determine itself, and
from that moment on, everything has been done to overthrow Chavismo and
thus initiating a new stage of recolonization as they are already doing in
Argentina and other countries of the continent. But beyond the power they
are deploying to disavow Maduro’s victory, including stoking the fire of a
possible coup d’état, everything indicates that the move is going to
backfire. First, because of Maduro and his victory, and that the people are
willing to defend it in the streets, to the last consequence. If they do
not believe it, let them try and they will see what they will find. And on
the other hand, Bolivarian Venezuela is not alone, it already is feeling
the support of China, Russia, Cuba, Nicaragua, Bolivia, and almost all the
countries of the Third World, Africa and Asia, since precisely the latter
are reflected in Venezuela by all the evils they have also suffered,
throughout centuries, by imperialism.

Furthermore, in the same way that it is necessary to reinforce the actions
of solidarity with the Palestinian people, denouncing the criminal actions
of Zionism, with the same strength we must also enforce  the unrestricted
defense of the Venezuelan revolutionary process, the triumph of Maduro and
the repudiation of all those expressions that, coincide with the fascism of
 Milei, the Bolsonaros or their bosses in Washington or Tel Aviv, who all
want to turn the Caribbean country into a branch of the empire.

Finally, when very soon, the Venezuelan Justice, to which the reelected
president has subordinated himself to, says its last word on the results,
and they prove what the people celebrated for the same night of the 28th in
front of the Miraflores Palace, what else will the inquisitors of the
Revolution ask for then? Will they accept that there is only one reality
and not the one they are trying to create by disruption, or will they
continue to feed the war against a country that, like Cuba, are true
examples of a different world?

The answer is well known, and that is why, in this opportunity, as in so
many others, there is no middle path or “third way”. Either one is with
Bolivarian Venezuela or one chooses to kneel before the murderers who
stimulate internal and external violence in the country of Bolivar and
Chavez.

Source: Resumen Latinoamericano
<https://www.resumenlatinoamericano.org/2024/08/01/venezuela-defender-la-victoria-de-maduro-es-oponerse-al-fascismo/>
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