The right wing seeks to encircle Venezuela

By Roberto Morejón

A rampant campaign on social networks and in the hegemonic press, along with the interference of dozens of governments in the elections and the subsequent proclamation of the winner, make up the panorama in Venezuela, which is also marked by a wave of internal violence by the extreme right wing.

Under the guise of protests against the results offered by the National Electoral Council, which awarded victory to Nicolás Maduro on July 28, groups of criminals destroyed governmental, political and economic institutions.

One of the darkest aspects of the extreme right's onslaught was the use of youths, who, according to the accusations, were paid.

With total bias, the mainstream media and networks hide this aspect of what is revealed as peaceful protests by anti-Chavistas, but some of the hundreds of detainees begin to point to conspiracies and conspirators, as reported by the Public Prosecutor's Office.

Several deaths and dozens of wounded, including military officials, according to Telesur, are added to the list of unfortunate events.

The international press and networks question the actions of the forces of order to restore peace and minimize the claims of the National Electoral Council that it was the object of a cyber-attack to stop or delay the counting of votes.

The Venezuelan government defines the situation as an escalation of violence aimed at provoking a change of regime under the pretext of electoral fraud. 

The visible leader is the former deputy María Corina Machado, who speaks, gestures and gives orders a hundred times more than the one presented as the candidate of the extremists, Edmundo González.

The internal maneuvers are joined by the right-wing governments of Latin America, such as Argentina, which allowed the siege of the Venezuelan embassy in Buenos Aires and now deplores the surroundings of its legation in Caracas; not by chance, the Mexican president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, called for respect for the self-determination of peoples.

Faced with these attacks, the Venezuelan government calls on its supporters to unite and trusts in the role of the armed forces and the police, zealous guardians of the Constitution.

What is at stake in Venezuela is more than the outcome of an electoral contest, because powerful forces, with foreign support, are trying to violate democracy in a country rich in hydrocarbons.