Maduro: US-trained mercenaries paid by rivals attack Venezuela

Caracas. Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro said yesterday that the people linked to violent acts in the anti-government protests, which have resulted in more than twenty deaths and hundreds of arrests, were trained in the United States, Colombia, Peru and Chile, and he ordered take out of circulation or block access to the social network platform X in the country.

It was not Venezuelan youth. It was a group of hired criminals, trained, 80 percent in camps in Texas, Colombia, Peru and Chile.Maduro declared, referring to the limitedopposition campaign units that, according to the president, They led the destruction of schools, hospitals and have threatened socialist youththe presidential press office said in a statement.

Maduro blamed former opposition presidential candidate Edmundo González and opposition leader María Corina Machado for the violent actions that took place after the elections, held on July 28, and during the protests.

He said that opposition leaders ordered the youth to go to burn hospitals, schools, toppling statues of Bolívar and Hugo Chávez, attacking residents, members of the ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela and socialist youth.

Musk encourages protests

Maduro announced during an event in Caracas that the National Telecommunications Commission (Conatel) will ban the social network X for 10 days, because it considers that the platform has incited hatred against this country. He did not specify when this block will begin.

Maduro has frequently criticized X owner Elon Musk since the presidential election. X out of Venezuela for 10 days!he added in a broadcast on state television.

Maduro and Musk have frequently sparred on X, with the Venezuelan blaming the businessman for being a driving force behind protests and dissent following the election.

The president declared that he endorsed a proposal made by Conatel, which has decided to take the social network X, formerly known as Twitter, out of circulation for 10 days, so that they can present their documentsMaduro thus suggested that the company must comply with certain legal obligations, which he did not detail.

In Venezuela there is law, there is a Constitution, there are institutions, there is a State, there is a people who must be respected.he stressed.

The temporary ban on X represents another blow to Big Tech, after Maduro this week urged his supporters to abandon WhatsApp in favour of Telegram or WeChat, arguing that the messaging app, owned by Meta, was being used to threaten the families of soldiers and police officers.

Foreign Minister Yván Gil responds to the Carter Center

Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yván Gil said that Jennie Lincoln, head of the Carter Center’s observation mission, is lying shamelessly on the presidential elections.

Gil responded to Lincoln’s statement that there is no evidence of a cyber attack on the National Electoral Council (CNE) system, as announced by that body on election night.

Mrs. Jennie Lincoln lies shamelessly, none of her words correspond to reality or Venezuelan legalityGil expressed in X.

According to Lincoln, the Carter Center analyzed the available numbers and confirmed the candidate Edmundo González as the winner with more than 60 percent of the votes.

In July, the Carter Center issued a report in which it noted that the electoral process in Venezuela It developed in an environment of restricted freedoms and that the electoral authorities They showed bias in favor of the ruling party and against the opposition candidates.

Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodríguez presented evidence to the diplomatic corps accredited in the country that she claimed demonstrates the falsification of the minutes published by the opposition, which attribute the victory to González.

He exposed the plans organized and executed by the extreme right to ignore the results of the elections and for generate violence in the streetsfor which he held Machado and González responsible.

He stressed that the extremists They announced before the elections that they would not recognize the results issued by the National Electoral Council. They set the stage to present some supposed minutes that ended up being fraudulenthe said.

He added that the opposition has returned to him to fail their US masters in their plans to take over the countryand said that from Washington The vulgar and massive fraud was planned. Once again its executors, its lackeys, did it very, very badly..

Supreme Court Hearings

Hearings to resolve the contentious appeal filed by Maduro continued in the electoral chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) on Thursday.

Yesterday, the following party leaders appeared before that body: José Noriega, from Popular Will; José Perdomo, from the Assembly, Renewal and Hope Political Alliance; Alfonzo Campos, from Hope for Change; Cristian Chirinos, from Solutions for Venezuela; Erick Ondorroa, from the Pencil Alliance; Roger González, from the Unity Ministry; Timoteo Zambrano, from Cambiemos; Leonardo Morales, from the Progressive Advancement Party; Alejandra Aguilera, from the Venezuelan Ecological Movement; and Máximo Sánchez, from the Neighborhood Force.

Former presidential candidates Javier Bertucci, Daniel Ceballos, Claudio Fermín and Antonio Ecarri were also summoned, the local newspaper reported. The Universal.

Warning from the United States

The United States ambassador to the Organization of American States, Francisco Mora, warned Maduro that he will face international pressure that I could not imagine if the authorities arrest opposition leaders.

If Maduro decides to do that, he will activate the international community in ways he could not imagine, and I believe that his efforts to fracture and divide the international community will have failed miserably.said the diplomat at the Atlantic Council, a think tank based in Washington.

The ambassador warned that the United States could be expected to present a strong draft resolution at the OAS if Maduro detains Machado and González.