{"id":1045593,"date":"2021-11-22T19:43:55","date_gmt":"2021-11-23T00:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1045593"},"modified":"2021-11-22T19:44:00","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T00:44:00","slug":"shocker-maduro-regime-dominates-sham-vote-in-venezuela-attacks-dissidents-on-election-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/shocker-maduro-regime-dominates-sham-vote-in-venezuela-attacks-dissidents-on-election-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Shocker: Maduro Regime Dominates Sham Vote in Venezuela, Attacks Dissidents on Election Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fshocker-maduro-regime-dominates-sham-vote-in-venezuela-attacks-dissidents-on-election-day%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1045593&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">The ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) swept 20 of 23 governorships in the country, as well as control over the Caracas capital district, on Sunday in a characteristically fraudulent and violent election \u2013 this time with the blessing of the socialist \u201copposition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The dictatorship of Nicol\u00e1s Maduro, who has not legally been president of Venezuela since 2019, has a long history of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2017\/10\/16\/venezuela-maduro-sticks-landing-another-fraudulent-election\/\">organizing<\/a> sham elections featuring no meaningful opposition on the ballots, roving violent gangs threatening voters, and the mysterious addition of \u201clate-night\u201d voting after regular hours, yielded an embarrassingly low voter turnout. Despite the absence of fair elections in the country since at least 2015, a group of opposition leaders who have come to define the anti-Maduro left in the country chose to participate, nominating candidates for gubernatorial and other regional positions.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The elections <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2017\/04\/12\/socialism-destroyed-venezuela-opposition-trust-socialist-international\/\">marked<\/a> the return of the Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD), a coalition of leftist anti-Maduro elites that had previously supported several sham elections in the country. The MUD had abstained from participation for three years in response to the widespread popular disapproval of doing so. During that time, current President Juan Guaid\u00f3 assumed the reins of the establishment opposition and has opposed participating in such elections. This time, Guaid\u00f3, who has never actually exercised any executive power, neither called for voting in these elections nor for opposing them after being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/latin-america\/2021\/09\/01\/venezuela-socialist-opposition-betrays-guaido-cuts-deal-with-maduro\/\">left out<\/a> of the negotiating process between Maduro and the MUD to get on the ballot.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of agreeing to host elections, Maduro allowed the return of several opposition leaders from exile to participate in elections. None appeared to have won at press time, though voting in some areas remains in process.<\/p>\n<p>Not all high-profile members of the Venezuelan opposition approved of the election. Antonio Ledezma, the former mayor of Caracas now in exile, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elnacional.com\/venezuela\/ledezma-luego-de-las-regionales-nadie-ha-ganado-perdio-la-democracia\/\">lamented<\/a> on Monday, \u201cNobody won; democracy lost.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe narco-dictatorship has imposed its scheme on a country where its people are corralled and orphaned \u2026 the infiltrated and collaborators fulfilled their dishonorable role,\u201d Ledezma wrote on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>The election monitoring platform Guachim\u00e1n Electoral, run by a coalition of Venezuelan journalists, <a href=\"https:\/\/runrun.es\/noticias\/460882\/20-gobernaciones-chavismo-cne\/\">published<\/a> a map of the results, which showed essentially total control for the ruling PSUV as a result of state-sponsored violence, intimidation, and fraud, according to some observers.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/conjunto-640x1035-1.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"970\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Rub\u00e9n Chirino Lea\u00f1ez, who runs the Venezuelan polling firm Megan\u00e1lisis, told Breitbart News on Monday that the alleged 41-percent turnout in the elections was the result of intimidation and fraud, stating that the true participation rate during legal voting hours was closer to 28 percent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUp to the legal time [to vote], 6 pm, participation was 27.9 percent,\u201d Chirino told Breitbart News, \u201cbut then, as usual, there were five or six nocturnal voting hours where they do all sorts of things and the CNE announced 41 percent at midnight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Asked if the extra votes were real people voting under duress or fake ballots, Chirino replied, \u201ca little bit of everything \u2013 coercion and pressured [voters], voting tables left alone where identities are fradulently usurped \u2013 when the night falls everything happens.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Chirino asserted on Monday that the types of intimidation tactics used included pressuring people who rely on the state for life-saving medication or threatening those who do not own their homes with losing them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVenezuelans mostly want to escape socialism, and when this possibility appears in an electoral context, voter turnout will increase. As long as that is not the case, the same thing will keep happening,\u201d Chirino continued, \u201cwhere political dinosaurs resurface to be loser candidates, who fundraise and support the show, where the government varnishes itself with legitimacy, and others blackmail with unity, but they are all equally socialist.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The NGO Venezuelan Penal Forum, which tracks repression in the country, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elnacional.com\/venezuela\/foro-penal-reporta-mas-de-10-detenciones-durante-las-elecciones\/\">reported<\/a> at least 13 politically motivated arrests on Sunday, noting that several arrests remain unconfirmed, but likely, in Lara state. The arrest targets were all opponents of the Maduro regime.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to official state action against dissidents, roving socialist gangs known as&nbsp;<em>colectivos<\/em> attacked some polling stations. In western Zulia state,&nbsp;<em>colectivos<\/em> attacked a local headquarters of the MUD coalition, leaving workers there bloodied.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"10.089552238806\">\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/21Nov?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#21Nov<\/a> | Eduardo Labrador, miembro del Comando de la Unidad en San Francisco (Zulia), denunci\u00f3 que grupos armados entraron a la sede del comando y atacaron a todos los presentes.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcf9: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ElPitazoTV?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ElPitazoTV<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ueGuArKRVY\">pic.twitter.com\/ueGuArKRVY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 El Diario (@eldiario) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/eldiario\/status\/1462479482892304386?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 21, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>The Venezuelan news portal Runrunes <a href=\"https:\/\/runrun.es\/noticias\/460879\/candidatos-de-la-mud-en-aragua-enfrentaron-obstaculos-y-amenazas\/\">reported<\/a> that journalists also faced significant hurdles when attempting to cover MUD events. Maduro regime representatives banned them from entering areas where MUD candidates were campaigning. On some occasions,&nbsp;<em>colectivo<\/em> groups threatened both journalists and MUD candidates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe election also counted with complaints of out-of-order voting machines that were never replaced,\u201d Runrunes noted. \u201cThis occurred mostly in centers whose voters traditionally support the opposition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The European Union <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reforma.com\/libre\/acceso\/accesofb.htm?urlredirect=\/reporta-mision-de-ue-eleccion-tranquila-en-venezuela\/ar2301087\">sent<\/a> observers to Venezuela for the event, who said on Sunday they believed the elections occurred \u201cwith tranquility.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUp to today they have risen to the occasion, respecting the Constitution and the laws \u2013 hopefully, it will remain like this through the end of their observation mission,\u201d Maduro <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/es\/minuto-a-minuto\/20211121-observadores-electorales-de-la-ue-en-venezuela-se-han-portado-a-la-altura-dice-maduro\">said<\/a> on television Sunday of the E.U. representatives.<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Frances Martel on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/francesimartel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/francesimartel\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1637665084237000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1F9zYrgpwHQrc4upp_iUq4\">Facebook<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/francesmartel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/twitter.com\/francesmartel&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1637665084237000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2f93pvbTyjJq0DogiCCiZ-\">Twitter.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) swept 20 of 23 governorships in the country, as well as control over the Caracas capital district, on Sunday in a characteristically &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1045593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1045593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1045593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1045593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1045593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}