| Join AFGJ for Venezuela Solidarity Network’s next Monthly Webinar/Online Picket Thursday, October 24 at 4 pm PT / 6 pm CT / 7 pm ET Join us for a conversation with Oscar Schemel, Electoral Consultant and President of one of Venezuela’s most credible polling firms, Hinterlaces. We’ll discuss the electoral outcome and the broader context of public opinion within Venezuelan society, including socioeconomic, political and cultural elements that motivated the vote; trends in political participation; and popular communal organization. |
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No coup in Venezuela! Demand the U.S. respects Venezuela’s democracy
The U.S. has created obstacles to free and fair elections in Venezuela in several ways. First, through the imposition of an illegal economic blockade estimated to have caused over 40,000 Venezuelan deaths and denounced by UN rapporteurs – which it threatens to continue if the will of the Venezuelan people is reflected in the inauguration of Nicolás Maduro. Second, through its implication in repeated assassination attempts against President Maduro, who in the months leading up to Venezuela’s presidential election was leading in polls such as DataViva, CMIDE and IdeaDatos. Third, by funneling millions of dollars to civil society organizations – some of which are responsible for inciting violence against civilians following the elections. All attempts to destabilize Venezuela’s democracy are violations of international law and basic standards of diplomacy and must cease immediately. Take action!
Toolkit: Countering Disinformation in the Media About Venezuela’s July 2024 Elections
Check out our go-to resource for countering disinformation in the media about Venezuela’s presidential elections, featuring topics such as:
- Responding to the press (includes sample letter to the editor)
- About Venezuela’s democracy: the electoral process, the CNE and laws
- Polls and data analysis: voting trends and pre-election polls
- Voting records & validation: CNE tallies, irregularities and fabrications in opposition exit polls, Supreme Court ruling
- Election observations: statements from the National Lawyers’ Guild and eyewitness observers
- Face of the “opposition”: María Corina Machado and Edmundo González
- U.S. interference in Venezuela: media manipulation, illegal sanctions, foreign funding and assassination plots
- Attacks to the electoral system: electricity blackouts and cyber warfare
- Uprising or coup? Post-election violence
While the U.S. neglects democracy at home, self-determination prevails in Venezuela despite attacks to the electoral system
The latest attack to Venezuela’s electoral system not only reveals new forms of covert interference in the country’s affairs but also the extent of imperial desperations to end the Bolivarian Revolution. The United States and its transnational corporate allies underestimate the bravery and persistence of the Venezuelan people, who took to the streets by the hundreds of thousands to show the world who voted for Nicolas Maduro and defend Venezuela’s sovereignty. (Read full)
Communique: AFGJ delegation demands respect for Venezuela’s democracy in light of July 28 presidential election
We are a group of 17 citizens of various countries living in the United States, Canada and Costa Rica who visited Venezuela from July 21-31, 2024 to learn about the Bolivarian Revolution underway since 1999, to accompany the Venezuelan people and social movements during the July 28 election and to report to people in our countries about what we witnessed. (Read full)
Post-Election Day press conference from Caracas
Once again, it was confirmed to the world that the Venezuelan electoral system continues to be one of the most secure globally, capable of transmitting the essence of the voters’ decision, with more than a dozen types of audits and where the political forces of that country intervene in their different tendencies, all under detailed rules and regulations, with constitutional rank, which verifies the strength of the Venezuelan democratic institutions. (Watch full)
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