Now, Nicolás Maduro has removed the veil that hid his essence. On July 28, Maduro led a coup d’état under the fraudulent operation of proclaiming himself president based on non-existent records, inventing the result of an unsustainable vote count, impossible to prove, although with his tricks – even judicial ones – he is still working on falsifying the evidence.
It was an election that had a historic turnout despite having prevented at least 4.5 million Venezuelans living abroad from voting. A process that confirmed that Nicolás Maduro is on the opposite side of democracy and that has exposed him as an unpopular, amoral and resentful dictator.
With this blatant fraud, Maduro has marked the path to his end.
The assault on a position that he did not obtain by votes has forced him to remove his mask, confirming the reasons that have taken him to the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity, now with an additional element: Seizing power illegally, aggravated by a relentless hunt for legitimate protest. Maduro did not hesitate to order repression with the consequent record of dead and wounded, also attacking the popular sectors that for a long time were Chavistas.
It also represses with the pincers of censorship or with the practices of the Nazis by activating applications and other channels that invite citizens to report their neighbors or other acquaintances who participate in street actions.
Using brute force does not necessarily mean political strength, but on the contrary, it is a symptom of fragility that leads him to expose unpresentable alliances such as with drug cartel thugs, with armed gangs from Colombia, with Cuban repression brigades, with Chinese computer scientists, Russian or Iranian communication technicians and of course, with the groups armed by his regime that act under the impunity that his mandate guarantees.
Something must be highlighted, the recent survey confirms that 8 out of 10 Venezuelans detest him, he knows it and is therefore, although he does not show it, very scared, while the number of detainees, missing persons and dead is still being counted, within the secrecy and implacable censorship of a dictatorship.
Are we alone? It may seem so, but the immediate reaction has shown the displeasure of most democracies. in the face of the unmistakable smell that Maduro exudes as a dictator. After this, he no longer has a way to hide it. The report from the Carter Center, whom he considered his ally – in fact, it was the only entity authorized to witness the process – unpleasantly surprised him.
Maduro must have been so shameless that the Carter Center concluded that this election cannot be considered democratic. There were many reasons that support the conclusion that the July 28 process was irregular in all its stages. Among these reasons is that the CNE announced the results not broken down by polling station, which violates the regulations. For the Carter Center, it is impossible to corroborate the authenticity of the results because it also found numerous irregularities in the election day, added to the grotesque political bias. Not to mention the undeniable opportunism, especially in the waste of resources.
Maduro was basically voted for by officials subject to blackmail, And in contrast, Edmundo González Urrutia, achieved a vote that was unexpected by his rival who bet that he was an unknown and that the voter would not find him on the ballot. He underestimated Edmundo and was unable to defeat María Corina Machado who multiplied her lead by touring the country, while Maduro resignedly jumped around clowning in alleys that he could not fill.
On June 28, Nicolás Maduro kicked popular sovereignty and placed the sword of Damocles incarnated in the democratic world over him. Maduro is already outside the law. According to constitutionalist José Ignacio Hernández, the deadline for submitting the totals of the minutes – which is 48 hours – has expired. This is the last step of the electoral procedure after the scrutiny to announce the results. Maduro has not complied with this because he has not shown a single minute. He cannot do so because it would confirm that he lost.
We can add a pending detail: the complaint by Enrique Márquez, former presidential candidate, who denounced that the figure read by the president of the CNE, Elvis Amoroso, did not come from the automated system. In other words, it was fabricated.
We are facing fraud. The result of the presidential election has been altered, a false proclamation has been made on non-existent ballots and the time for reporting the total has already expired. All of this creates a constitutional vacuum.
In Miraflores, the losing candidate is president.
