According to Foro Penal, a human rights activist group specializing in political prisoners, At least 46 people were arrested In demonstrations across the country.
All seven deaths have been confirmed by independent sourcesThe Spanish newspaper said this Tuesday the world.
Security forces fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse the protesters. “Freedom” and “this government will fall” were some of the phrases chanted by the protesters.
In addition to removing posters of Nicolás Maduro from the walls of the country’s streets, they are in at least two places Statues of Maduro’s predecessor, Hugo Chavez, who was also the face of an authoritarian regime, were broken. For more than a decade.
Protests were also recorded in poorer areas of Caracas, which have so far supported Maduro’s socialist government. Gunshots were heard in some areas.“I am going to fight for my country’s democracy. They stole the election from us,” lamented one protester. We must continue to fight for the youth.
In a live broadcast from the presidential palace, the re-elected president said his forces were operating against “violent protesters”. The armed forces are backing Maduro, and its leaders show no sign of breaking the regime.
“We are following all acts of violence promoted by the extreme right. I can tell the Venezuelan people that we are taking action.“, he announced. “We already know this picture, so, once again, together with the civil, military and police union, we are taking action. We already know how they work.”
As of 6pm on Monday (11pm in Lisbon), Venezuela’s Conflict Monitor said it had registered 187 protests in 20 states. “Several acts of repression and violence by paramilitary groups and security forces have been reported,” the organization announced.
The opposition guarantees that the victory belongs to Gonzalez Urrutia
Demonstrations broke out on Monday night after the president attended a meeting of the National Electoral Council (CNE) that confirmed his re-election to a third six-year term.
Thus, Maduro ignored international and opposition criticism and doubts about the vote count Venezuela was the target of a “conspiracy” of a “fascist and counter-revolutionary” nature..
After Maduro’s announcement, opposition leader María Corina Machado told reporters that an analysis of the voting records so far clearly proved that the next president is “Edmondo González Urrutia.”
According to Machado, Evidence reveals a “mathematically irreversible” advantage for UrrutiaMaduro received 6.27 million votes to just 2.75 million.
Early Monday morning, the CNE announced that Maduro had won 51.2 percent of the vote, against Gonzalez Urrutia’s 44.2 percent.
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