María Corina Machado Goes Underground (+Superlano’s Phones)
Orinoco Tribune, August 2, 2024 —
Far-right Venezuelan politician María Corina Machado has announced that she intends to minimize her public appearances and “go underground,” following the revelation of details of the violent plans she promoted as part of her refusal to recognize the results of last Sunday’s presidential election, which resulted in the re-election of Nicolás Maduro as the president of Venezuela for the 2025-2031 term.
Machado’s decision was made public in an op-ed entitled “I Can Prove Maduro Got Trounced,” published this Thursday, August 1, by US mainstream news outlet The Wall Street Journal. She claims that she wrote the letter while in “hiding” and “fearing for her life,” and cries out once again for support from the so-called “international community,” a not-so-secret code for US imperial intervention.
The announcement by the extremist politician comes after the capture of Freddy Superlano, a politician from the Popular Will party and former opposition deputy, who was discovered to be one of the main promoters and organizers of the violent riots against public and private property reported in Caracas and other parts of Venezuela last Monday.
This Thursday, the attorney general of Venezuela, Tarek William Saab, said that following the arrest of Superlano, new elements are being discovered that could lead to new arrests of people involved in the violent acts.
At the moment of his apprehension, Superlano threw away two cellphones in his possession, which law enforcement agents later recovered from the scene. United Socialist Party of Venezuela Deputy Diosdado Cabello stated that those phones hold key information connecting far-right politicians with the riots reported on Monday. These riots were the only protest option envisioned by these politicians to stir up unrest, since they lack popular support willing to repeat the violence they inflicted on Venezuela in 2014 and 2017.
Saab mentioned that Superlano “is providing important elements to identify larger groups of extreme right politicians, aside from Lester Toledo, who participated in the attack on the data transmission system of the National Electoral Council (CNE).”
He reported that Superlano has been interrogated by prosecutors attached to the General Directorate of Human Rights, and is protected in his place of confinement, providing important details that will be revealed in due process.
Machado, who ordered her followers to protest and take to the streets “with their children and their elderly,” said in the op-ed sent to The Wall Street Journal that most of her team “is in hiding.”
She also insisted in her op-ed that she won the presidential elections with 67% of the votes while President Maduro was only able to receive 30%, with a correlation of vote statistics that has been put into question even by opposition-leaning poll experts like Luis Vicente Leon, who, just one day after the elections, noted in an interview that the figures provided by the CNE were accurate to his estimations.
Machado also mentioned in her writing that all the exit poll firms pointed at her victory, hiding the fact that one of these polling firms, a New Jersey-based company called Edison Research, is a firm that is closely linked to the US government and does work for US state propaganda outlets that were founded by the CIA, as denounced by US journalist Ben Norton. She also neglected to mention that the most prestigious and respected polling firm in Venezuela, Hinterlaces, released an exit poll result showing estimates that were very similar to the results announced by the CNE.
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(Últimas Noticias) by Randolf Borges with Orinoco Tribune content