This Sunday, just a few hours after the global march against electoral fraud led by the dictator on July 28 Nicolás MaduroVenezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado“Venezuela's independence is a universal cause,” said the man who led the massive rally in Caracas.
The president of Vende Venezuela (VV) said this yesterday through a message posted on his social networks The Venezuelan people marked it as “a fundamental milestone and a great victory”. For their struggle to end over two decades of tyranny.
“We show that Venezuela is united as a nation. From the farmer who cried out with his family from his village in the Andes to the tens of thousands who filled cities on 5 continents…. No distance, no time separates us,” said María Corina Machado.
And he added: “We demonstrate that Venezuela's independence is a universal cause. “Citizens from all over the world have accepted the importance of our struggle and will be with us till the end.”
Finally, he reiterated that despite the oppression and repression of the Chavista regime, the strength of the opposition “increases every day”. “We have fulfilled another objective of our strategy. New steps and new successes are coming.He finished.
María Corina Machado led the rally in Caracas on Saturday, where she continued, after calling on Venezuelans from around the world to a large international march to denounce electoral fraud. The opposition achieved the “biggest civic feat in history”. Led by Edmundo González Urrutia, the Unitary Platform won the elections with nearly 67% of the vote, according to results.
“Because of the harassment against our witnesses, they believed we weren't going to get our minutes, and in 24 hours we digitized the minutes,” Machado said during a demonstration in Caracas, where thousands of people gathered to defend Gonzalez Urrutia's victory. .
Venezuela's opposition leader, who has been disqualified from public office by the regime, said during his speech that it was time to move to the “fifth phase,” which would “collect” what had been achieved in the elections and “respect every vote.”
“There is nothing above the voice of sovereignty and sovereignty in Venezuela. (…) Let the world and everyone in Venezuela recognize that the elected president, Edmundo González Urrutia, is right,” he said.
Likewise, when Maduro saw himself “defeated and discovered,” he chose “the cruelest of all policies,” such as “positioning himself in the military high command and ordering a campaign of repression. The most brutal in Venezuela's history.”
In that regard, he recalled that last week the Inter-American Committee on Human Rights (IACHR) and its Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression condemned the regime's practices. Classified as “state terrorism”.
“The Commission has never said this since the military dictatorship of the Southern Cone. “It's something else (…) and the world has said it, condemns it (…) ruling based on oppression is chilling, the world sees it,” Machado said.
“They told us that it was impossible to defeat fraud and prove our success, and we achieved it (…) We were able to defeat fraud and prove our success. “It's time to get paid,” he concluded.
María Corina Machado's massive global protest drew huge votes in Venezuela and abroad, with more than 300 cities painted blue, yellow and red. Thousands protest against Nicolás Maduro's fraud. Due to the time difference in each country, the event took place throughout Saturday, showing the world the strength and unity of the opposition, determined to respect its vote in the July 28 elections and not to let the regime continue.
Mobilizations spread across major cities and capitals on five continents. “Freedom” was the most repeated word in each of the concentrations.