“No Venezuelan party that alleges to have 40 percent more votes than President Maduro (as the opposition claims) would hesitate to present the evidence to the National Electoral Council (CNE)…Whoever cries election fraud, must irrefutably prove it, the onus is on them not on the CNE to prove there wasn’t.” – Dr Olga Alvarez, Venezuelan constitutionalist expert.
Despite a monstrous internationally-coordinated, and grotesquely false media campaign of fake news that repeatedly quoted CIA-linked “pollsters” giving extreme right-wing candidate, Edmundo Gonzalez, percentages of up to 80 percent of the vote and all supplemented by a propaganda campaign threatening violence, voiced principally by media-lionised, far-right politician, Maria Corina Machado, on July 28, 2024, the people of Venezuela calmly but solidly voted to continue the Bolivarian process by re-electing Nicolas Maduro for the 2025-2031 period.
President Maduro’s victory as in the first CNE bulletin with 80% of the ‘voting records’ (tally sheets) in was 51.2 percent, against Gonzalez 44.2 percent, then confirmed by the CNE second Bulletin with 97 percent of the voting records, Maduro with 52 percent (6,408,844 votes) and Gonzalez with 43 percent (5,326,104 votes.).
The unprecedented level of fake messaging coordination by the world corporate media, even when the target is Venezuela, was surprising. It was exceedingly well-coordinated with an astounding degree of content homogeneity that for months bombarded Venezuelans 24/7 with disinformation. Bombardment which grew in intensity in the few days before the election.
There is only one centre of power in the world with the muscle to command the world corporate media to carry out such an insidious campaign. This involved thousands of newspapers and TV channels going from the most reputable to the most loathsome. The media lies were incessantly repeated with a twist of hatred by tens of thousands of web networks spewing millions of messages daily by bot farms. Opposition leaders, as they have done many times in the past, unashamedly legitimised the campaign of hatred.
Firstly, there was the false media charge that elections in Venezuela are neither free nor fair, allegations with no evidence to back it up. The media just echo the opposition’s claims of ‘fraud’ when they lose, but accept the results when they win. Venezuela’s electoral system has been electronic since 2004, and has been substantially improved over the years with biometric authentication since 2012, yet the opposition has cried fraud in 2004, 2017, 2018, 2023 and now in 2024, but not in 2015 when the opposition got nearly two thirds majority in the National Assembly (which President Maduro recognised immediately).
To top it all up, every election has at least 16 audits at which all political contenders participate and, unless one audit is approved, the next one cannot be undertaken. Venezuela’s election system is fully auditable, verifiable, reliable and fraud-proof, the vote is secret. To this day, the opposition has totally failed to produce irrefutable evidence of their patently false allegations. The only time they promised evidence of ‘fraud’ was for the August 2004 recall referendum (at which Maria Corina Machado-led, US-funded ‘NGO’, Súmate, played a central role) was when opposition politician, Henry Ramos Allup, immediately after the referendum result was announced (won by President Chávez by 59 percent), promised to produce the evidence ‘within 24 hours.’ We are still waiting.
Hellbound and Down 