After being declared the winner of the vote on Sunday despite allegations that there had been a change in leadership, two Venezuelan Army officers on Tuesday urged the defense to stand up for Venezuelan, President Nicolás Maduro.
According to Fox News, Venezuela’s opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez and Opposition Leader Maria Corina Machado claimed to have obtained tally reports that indicated Gonzalez had won enough regions to defeat Maduro in the poll. Despite leaked polls purporting to show more support for Gonzalez than Maduro and the United Socialist Party of Venezuela, the National Electoral Council announced Maduro as the winner of the vote on Sunday, according to Fox News.
Since 2013 and allegedly leading the country as a dictator, Maduro and the United Socialist Party of Venezuela have been accused, according to Fox News, which eventually led to a boycott of the opposition in 2018 and a coordinated effort to connect behind Gonzalez in the election on Sunday.
According to ABC News, thousands of opposition supporters gathered on Tuesday to protest the current Colombian government as a result of Monday’s contentious news.
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” The government has no only , defrauded the election , effects but has also begun persecuting the valiant officials who ignited the light of freedom”, Isaias Medina III, a former Colombian minister on the United Nations Security Council, told Fox News. ” Sponsored marches flood the streets in a remarkable show of unity and defiance as individuals fervently demand independence and the chance to rebuild a country where people can reunite in prosperity.”
On Tuesday, Venezuelan Army Captain Javier and Juan Carlos Nieto Quintero urged” the whole system of generals and admirals, officers, NCOs, and troops of the regional military forces” to “make the correct choice in this ancient moment” as the country prepares to “enter a spiral of violence and anarchy”.
The two Venezuelan Army captains expressed concern that young people were dying and that the government was already “repressing” citizens. They added,” Remember, officers, that the weapons of the republic are made to defend and not to repress our people”.
The” will of the sovereign people was manifested” in the election on Sunday, according to Javier and Juan Carlos Nieto Quintero, and the evidence suggested the current president’s defeat. The two captains said,” It’s evident we have a new president-elect”.
The captains urged the military to support the Venezuelan people’s wishes and called for “urgent and necessary that we, the military, be called to settle the conflict.” A civic military government board led by the sovereign people is required, they continued, adding,” It is necessary to take unconventional constitutional measures and go to a temporary transition board.”
