Various political and social organizations revolving around the National Assembly (AN) and the Government of Venezuela decided to establish a commission that will discuss activities related to Venezuela. presidential election of this year. Nicolás Maduro bypassed formalities. Although the date and participants of the competition are not yet known, the chairman His campaign has actually started. The President also announced the construction five million houses, The establishment of outreach missions that address the problem of inequality and support youth development, as well as a set of measures that enable economic recovery. He also assured that the fight against state bureaucracy will be successful this time. The omen of prosperity is completed once again by the use of a strong hand that is no longer extended to the opponent. His opponents point out that the strangeness of this launch has to do with a new wave of repressiveness spreading on various fronts, including the State Department. High Commissioner United Nations For Human Rights (OHCHR), whose members have just been expelled. “We will defeat their sanctions on all war fronts, to their threats, evil and perversion wherever they come. Maduro said, “Rest assured imperialists, you have no life with Venezuela.”
Since the beginning of the year, 32 people, including soldiers, civilians and even a human rights activist, have been detained by security and intelligence forces. Attorney General Tarek William Saab He linked them to four alleged plots against Maduro that were thwarted by intelligence services and the Armed Forces.
The expulsion of representatives of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights for “violent attacks” capped a week of political tensions. “They are trying to create some kind of protection for our public forces (…) This is unacceptable in any State,” said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs regarding this issue. OACNUDH was established years ago following the visit of its then commissioner, Chilean, to Caracas. Michele Bachelet for the purpose of examining a number of relevant complaints Extrajudicial killings by security officials during the 2017 crisis. Relations had broken down hours ago after the lawyer’s arrest. Rocio San Miguel. OHCHR expressed concern about the incident and demanded compliance with the “guarantees of due process”. The State Department condemned him for being interested only in protecting “people who are trying to overthrow the constitutional order and create violence in Venezuela.” In response, Saab described the NGOs that facilitated San Miguel’s kidnapping as “myth freaks,” as did South American dictatorships almost half a century ago. “They distort the issue of disappearanceThere was a warrant for his arrest based on a criminal investigation.”
Los acuerdos en un limbo
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La Plataforma Unitaria, que agrupa a parte de la oposición que negoció en Barbados con el Gobierno una agenda para realizar unas elecciones presidenciales transparentes, rechazó la medida adoptada por el Palacio de Miraflores. La expulsión de la Oacnudh “ratifica el carácter totalitario del régimen“. Los acuerdos alcanzados en octubre han entrado en una zona pantanosa y sin horizonte a la vista desde el momento en que el Tribunal Supremo ratificó que María Corina Machado, la candidata opositora surgida de una primaria, no puede participar de las elecciones porque pesa sobre ella una inhabilitación de 15 años.
La figura del “subversivo” se ha instalado con fuerza en la escena política. Los opositores son susceptibles de ser calificados de esa manera si arrojan un manto de sospecha sobre las revelaciones estatales sobre los intentos de asesinato de Maduro que, sostienen las autoridades, involucraron no solo a uniformados y civiles en el territorio sino en Miami.
El acuerdo de Barbados abrió la esperanza de unas elecciones sin las anomalías de 2018, cuando Maduro compitió contra sí mismo. Había tenido como complemento instancias de diálogo entre Caracas y Washington. A partir de la inhabilitación de Machado y Henrique Capriles comenzaron a suceder episodios que fueron convirtiendo esa hoja de ruta en un mero balbuceo. Este resquebrajamiento de lo pactado ha tenido como contrapartida el anuncio desde Estados Unidos del retorno de sanciones económicas. Citado por la revista Tal Cual, el sociólogo Damián Alifa sostiene que el madurismo prefiere “ser sancionado que estar fuera del poder”.
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Otros analistas se preguntan hasta qué punto las tácticas utilizadas por el Gobierno años atrás pueden ser eficaces en 2024. Calculan que la base de apoyo de Maduro es del 25% de las personas en condiciones de votar. Más allá de los efectos materiales de las medidas adoptadas por Washington, con impacto en la industria petrolera y en las actividades extractivas de oro, el Gobierno se propone revertir la merma de simpatías a partir de un incremento del gasto social. La oposición vuelve a encontrarse frente a la encrucijada de rechazar de plano la agenda electoral diseñada por el madurismo, repitiendo una estrategia que fracasó en 2018, o encontrar otra manera de competir en un terreno adverso, controlado por el Estado, pero que a la vez podría abrir la posibilidad de que un candidato que no sea Machado pueda canalizar los anhelos de un cambio de época en Venezuela. Ese debate aún no se hadado, y Maduro no espera.