Tuesday saw Machado and Edmundo’s “citizens’ assembly” in Chacao and a crackdown on spontaneous protests, especially in low-income urban areas like 23 de Enero, Caricuao and Petare. Hundred of protesters and activists were detained, including Voluntad Popular leader Freddy Superlano. The opposition also announced it already has 81% of the tallies and showed its results -even on the regional and municipal level- in a new website. The U.S. and Brazil are now asking for the tallies to be shown too and the Carter Center released a harsh statement about the electoral conditions. Meanwhile, Maduro and Rodríguez are threatening González and Machado with jailed.
The results, according to the opposition’s tallies
🫓 Voluntad Popular denounces that, according to sources linked to Chavismo, Freddy Superlano -its national coordinator detained today- would have been tortured to "confess to the false plot set up" by General Prosecutor Tarek W. Saab.
Laboratorio de Paz geolocalizó por lo menos 210 protestas en Venezuela este #29J en rechazo a los resultados emanados del CNE de las elecciones presidenciales.https://t.co/mYQf8MHD6M
Venezuelan think Laboratorio de Peace geolocated at least 210 protests in Venezuela on Monday. The map is accesible.
🫓 Besides Freddy Superlano's detention, other opposition political activists were detained today: – Rafael Sivira -national youth coordinator of La Causa R- in Caracas – Eudi Perroni, the Unitary Platform's coordinator in Tumeremo, was kidnapped by paramilitary mining group Los…
🫓Chavista former mayor of Caracas Juan Barreto, close ally of Hugo Chávez and part of dissident Chavismo, supported candidate Enrique Márquez and said they have 36% of the tallies. He said he will will send them to Machado: "Together, we'll have maybe 95% of the tallies."
🫓🇺🇸🇧🇷 Joe Biden and Lula da Silva had a call and “agreed on the need for immediate release of full, transparent, and detailed voting data at the polling station level by the Venezuelan electoral authorities”, Biden’s Special Assistant said.
🫓 US National Security Council: "There are clear signs that the election results announced by Venezuela’s National Electoral Council do not reflect the will of the Venezuelan people as it was expressed at the ballot box on July 28."
Chinese-made light armoured personnel carriers enter barrio José Felix Ribas in Petare, where clashes continue between protesters and security forces. https://t.co/Ej80RGRj9L
