Election Aftermath: Is Venezuela on the Brink of Civil War? Maduro’s grip on the country appears to be loosening fast

Townhall ^ | 07/30/2024 | Matt Vespa

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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro likely lost the recent elections in his country because no one believes the official result. He was declared the winner after reports of the usual shenanigans, which included police forces barring people from entering polling locations. The State Department voiced its concern about the legitimacy of the results because they were fugazi. 

The sun is down and there’s an all-out battle on the streets of Caracas right now#VenezuelaLibre 🇻🇪 pic.twitter.com/I7TnSvlCH3— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) July 30, 2024

Full-scale battle taking place on the streets of Caracas right now!#VenezuelaLibre 🇻🇪

Via @EmmaRincon pic.twitter.com/xNTbKL8PkU— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) July 30, 2024

What’s left of a statue of Hugo Chávez getting dragged through the streets of Venezuela. This is a different vibe than before. pic.twitter.com/AExhSaO9Sr— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) July 30, 2024

BREAKING:

Entire neighbourhoods and favelas in Caracas are mobilizing and preparing to drive down to the city center to confront Maduro’s thugs#VenezuelaLibre 🇻🇪 pic.twitter.com/CZIRkHMh1t— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) July 30, 2024

BREAKING: Nicolás Maduro's gestapo police have surrendered their weapons and handed them over to the protestors in Barcelona city

Keep fighting Venezuela 🇻🇪
pic.twitter.com/IttUWGvss0— George (@BehizyTweets) July 30, 2024

NEW - Venezuelan opposition says it has proof its candidate defeated President Maduro in disputed election

https://t.co/yWYKwbhynJ— Overton (@OvertonLive) July 30, 2024

BREAKING:

Maduro’s armed “Colectivos” have besieged the Embassy of Argentina, but crowds of regular people are now gathering at the Embassy to defend @Urruchurtu and the rest of María Corina Machado's team that have been sheltering their for months. pic.twitter.com/1sYyR22iII— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) July 29, 2024

BREAKING: Venezuelan military units are now greeting the protestors instead of stopping them

Nicolás Maduro is slowly losing the loyalty of his entire military

Socialism is dying

🇻🇪 🇻🇪 🇻🇪
pic.twitter.com/wfF7pe3YBX— George (@BehizyTweets) July 30, 2024

Peru has just expelled Venezuelan diplomats and has given them just 72 hours to leave the country.

🇵🇪— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) July 30, 2024

WATCH: Police officers in Venezuela remove their uniforms, signalling their refusal to carry out Maduro’s orders against the protesters pic.twitter.com/vfHQg3VZxg— Overton (@OvertonLive) July 30, 2024

As the sun set in the capital of Caracas, there were skirmishes in the streets. Elsewhere, police and military units were either surrendering to protesters, refusing to follow government orders to contain the protests or outright joining them. Meanwhile, the purported leader of a Venezuelan gang, Tren del Llano, threatened Maduro and his allies, urging them to listen to the will of the people lest there be bloodshed: 

WATCH: Leader of Venezuelan Gang Issues Stark Warning to Maduro and Socialist Forces📍Guárico, Venezuela |

"We will use everything we have and all my people throughout the Huárico State will begin to launch attacks on the officials."

In a newly released video, the leader of… pic.twitter.com/LC8PMsgTYx— Overton (@OvertonLive) July 30, 2024

Good evening people of Venezuela, 

We are making this video to call out the armed forces and the public forces of the state. We do not want to generate more violence. 

My advice is that, listening to the people, they should entrench themselves in their commands and let the people decide to put in and remove whoever they have to put in and whoever they have to remove. 

I have nothing more to tell you. This is a warning call. I don't want violence, I don't want to generate homicide. I don't want to generate death. We are not generators of death. 

If they do not entrench themselves in the commands, we will use everything we have and all my people throughout the Huárico State will begin to launch attacks on the officials 

Is Venezuela on the verge of civil war? Let’s hope not, but Maduro’s grip on the country appears to be loosening fast. We’ll keep you updated.

 

[nopardons]

BTTT

[Organic Panic]

Wanna bet Biden gives more weapons to Maduro than he does Netanyahu? Chavez style communist Venezuela is what the democrats want here.

[z3n]

“This is a different vibe than before.”

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Yeah, because most of the Maduro supporters migrated 2000 northwest

[4yearlurker]

Yes!!! Death to all tyrants! Godspeed to the citizens of Venezuela!

[Steely Tom]

See my tagline, in use for the last three years, at least.

[Da Coyote]

Our same problem will not occur until Nov, when the Ho will be elected - after multiple swing states shut down for the night and Trump’s massive lead turns into a loss. Datz guaranteed.

[Celtic Conservative]

It would seem the worm has turned.

CC

[rktman]

Butt, butt, butt honest fair elections.......

[butlerweave]

Will the Bus Driver have to RUN ?

[No name given]

Both America 🇺🇸 and Venezuela 🇻🇪 need someone like Joseph McCarthy to root out the commies.

[No name given]

Well said.

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Venezuela Election Protests Spread As Maduro Claims US-Backed 'Color Revolution' Driving Mayhem

[No name given]

Marxism is nothing but a cancer on our species.

[No name given]

I hope Mad Maduro fails big time.

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Protests have reportedly come near the Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, with crowds - many of which marched by foot from rural districts - clashing with police, even using petrol bombs against security forces.

There are scenes of possible gunfire in the Venezuelan capital. Unverified social media videos appear to show that some of the anti-Maduro protesters are armed. If so, THAT is Insurrection ( not the fake one they tried to ascribe to January 6 ).

[Leaning Right]

[Thorium90]

You mean that when there is election fraud the people don’t just sit back and take it?

I thought the electorate was supposed to grin and bear it and chuckle “Oh well, we’ll get ‘em next time!”.

[srmanuel]

Maduro ihas been able to hold on because the military has supported him, I see some videos indicating that could be changing if they switch sides Maduro will flee to Cuba or some other communist country

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"I speak to you with the calmness of the truth," Leading Opposition Candidate Edmundo González told dozens of supporters."We have in our hands the tally sheets that demonstrate our categorical and mathematically irreversible victory."

He said this following National Electoral Council, which is deeply embedded with the ruling Unites Socialist Party of Venezuela, officially declared Maduro the winner, allowing him a third six-year term. "Machado told reporters tally sheets show Maduro and Gonzalez received more than 2.7 million and roughly 6.2 million votes respectively," according to the AP. But Maduro has vowed to enforce the "rule of law" in the face of the protests.