MIAMI.-On the eve of the day of the elections presidential elections in Venezuela, The situation resembles “a hostage drama, in a context in which President Nicolás Maduro threatens to plunge the region into chaos if he does not win the election, according to journalist and columnist Martín Aróstegui.
“The terrorist leader of Venezuela, Maduro, has issued an ultimatum: If they do not want Venezuela to fall into a bloodbath, into a fratricidal civil war, the product of the fascists, we must guarantee the greatest (electoral) success (in history), the greatest electoral victory in the history of our people,” he wrote in a special report to The American Spectator.
Aróstegui points out that Maduro, by threatening genocide, as a group of retired Venezuelan generals described the event, believes he can force his opposition and the international community “to accept the fraudulent results that his politically appointed electoral commission prepares, with the help of Cuban, Russian and Chinese agents infiltrated in his security services.”
Noting that it has only invited Russian election observers to oversee the process, while vetoing missions from the US and Europe, he says no objective observer could conclude that Maduro’s “blatantly corrupt” regime has a chance of winning a “fair” election.
In the face of the regime’s excesses, the journalist refers to the “charismatic” opposition leader María Corina Machado, disqualified from running for office, who has been welcomed by massive crowds across the country, despite systematic efforts to intimidate her supporters.
“Machado’s campaign has become a massive act of civil disobedience that rivals the historical precedents set by (Mahatma) Gandhi and Martin Luther King.”
Meanwhile, Maduro “meets small crowds and sometimes no one” and holds “sensitive and secret” talks with the US “in which they discuss the personal interests of their ruling group.” “They cannot afford to lose power and become hunted fugitives,” Ambassador Otto Reich said recently.
Maduro’s spying for votes
In his special article, Aróstegui claims that the Maduro regime has a vast electronic espionage agency based in a building next to the Miraflores Palace and that it is operated by an army of trained Chinese, Russian, Cuban and Iranian hackers.
“They have the ability to hack the electronic voting system to alter results and block or interfere with their transmission,” he said. Meanwhile, the opposition is betting on overcoming Maduro with a strong grassroots organization made up of witnesses. “Machado says the opposition is prepared to counter any fraud and will remain mobilized after the vote.”
But Maduro would have a spy structure, he says, after pointing out that a long pause in the vote count is expected after midnight on June 28. Maduro ordered “strict surveillance” of the members of the CNE and Cubans and Iranians would be infiltrated into the country’s security services, he says based on newspaper reports.
He also sees a complicated scenario in which Venezuelan soldiers would object to receiving orders from foreign advisers to shoot Venezuelans, given the repression of imprisoned military personnel.
Biden’s failure in talks
Faced with the uncertainty and “worrying signs” that an opposition source has drawn for him, he maintains that the negotiations called for by the US have been of little use, and bases his argument on the statement by Ambassador Otto Reich: “Maduro believes he is negotiating from a position of strength due to the weakness he perceives in Washington.
Aróstegui says that although the current US negotiating team is under the leadership of Maduro, after this rapprochement, he meets with ambassadors from Cuba, Russia and China.
“While hostage situations can be ended by well-trained assault forces that eliminate the terrorists, Maduro does not fear that threat. The Biden administration is not up to the task of intervening in Venezuela, which could irritate left-wing Democrats in the midst of an election year. The only gunboat circulating in Caracas these days is a Russian frigate,” he noted.
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Source: The American Spectator
