Hasta el final...

?Usually, I do not share my opinions on this platform, as it does not seem to me the most appropriate place; however, considering the extremely serious abuses that are occurring in Venezuela, I am morally obliged to raise my voice and beg my connections not to be indifferent to the pain to which the Venezuelan people are being subjected.

For the last 25 years, Venezuela has been subjected to a cruel and corrupt regime that has destroyed our economy (according to Trading Economics, the accumulated inflation between January-2000 and June-2024 is 27,162,536.87%), forced millions of Venezuelans to seek a better future in other latitudes (according to the United Nations, by the end of 2023 there were more than 7.7million Venezuelan refugees; surpassing those from Syria and Ukraine), disqualifies, tortures, imprisons and murders political dissidents (the United Nations Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in its first report examined more than 2.800 documented cases as of 2020), collapsed our health system (according to the PROVEA 2023 report, hospital collapse has reached 70% in hospitals, 80% in outpatient clinics and 90% in primary care centers), made it impossible for the population to meet its basic food needs (the cost of the basic food basket in 2023 stood at USD 506.18, while the average salary was USD 3.62 per month, being less than 1%; according to FAO the hunger index in Venezuela in 2023 triples those of LATAM and Caribbean), corruption is an everyday situation (according to the 2023 report of Transparency International, Venezuela is the second most corrupt country in the world; the president of INRAV indicated in 2021 that the estimated figure ranges between 300,000 to 500,000 million dollars) and drug trafficking at the highest levels of government (mainly managed by El Cartel de Los Soles, a criminal organization headed by members of the regime and the Venezuelan Armed Forces, they are attributed with the distribution of drugs from FARC and ELN, both listed as terrorist groups) among many others.

On Sunday, July 28, Venezuelans voted. We voted in spite of all the obstacles imposed by the regime: disqualification of the winner of the opposition primaries and her replacement, change of electoral rules (witnesses had to be voters from the electoral centre itself, hindering transparency in strongholds of the regime), restriction of voters abroad (the imposition of unattainable conditions, bureaucratic obstacles and closing of consulates meant that only 70 thousand of the +5M Venezuelans abroad could vote), unbalanced campaign (impossibility for candidates to use television and radio to advertise), persecution (imprisonment of political leaders, social actors, collaborators and even restaurant owners who offered services to the opposition). Despite all this... WE VOTED, we voted in masse... and WE WON.

The CNE published two bulletins of results without documentary support (“actas”), with mathematical errors in its first bulletin (132%), with statistical irregularities (up to 6 decimals in 0 for all candidates), contrary to the polls and exit-polls; and most importantly, drastically different from the copies of the actas collected by the opposition witnesses and available for everyone to see at resuladosconvzla.com.

What has been the regime's response to their defeat? Violence. Nicolás Maduro has boasted of having more than 1,200 detainees and that he seeks to detain 1,000 more, promoting tools for his followers to share photos/addresses of opponents to be captured and indicating the creation of special detention centers in Tocorón and Tocuyito for "re-education and work". The Attorney General, has justified these measures as "good and necessary for cleansing society". Likewise, the General in Chief of the Army has affirmed that "his loyalty is to Nicolás Maduro alone".

Now, the regime intends to judicialize the elections in order not to publish the minutes.

How can we trust the Venezuelan public authorities when the regime has absolute control over them?: the Judicial Branch, the Supreme Court of Justice is presided by an individual who was in prison in 1987 for murder and has an international arrest warrant for drug trafficking, money laundering and fraud (the other magistrates share similar profiles); the Electoral Branch, the CNE is presided by an individual who is a PSUV militant and served as a deputy to the Assembly; the Legislative Power, despite having lost the parliamentary elections, in 2021 the regime formed a parallel Assembly only with its supporters; the Moral Power, led by an Attorney General that, besides being a PSUV militant and governor for the same party, about him, one of the representatives of the UN Committee of Experts on Human Rights has stated that "I have never seen an attorney general defend the government of his country in such a way, when his role here is to present his independent situation". Likewise, the General in Chief of the Army is wanted by the DEA for being the head of the Cartel of the Suns.

We urgently need international help. We Venezuelans are subjected to the vilest of narco- dictatorships... we cannot do it alone. We need YOUR help; we need YOUR voice.

Venezuelans will continue to fight... UNTIL THE END.