Published 01/10/2025 10:48 | Edited 01/10/2025 10:59
The mobilization of the Venezuelan extreme right failed this Thursday (5), the eve of the inauguration of the new term of current president Nicolas Maduro. The Bolivarian leader assumes his third term this Friday (10) in a context still questioned by the country’s opposition, which spread fake news about the arrest of Marina Corina Machado.
This Thursday, allies of Corina, the main leader of the Venezuelan opposition, said that she was “violently intercepted” and hours later released after participating in coup protests in the capital of Venezuela.
Attorney General Tarek William Saab, however, denied the opposing claims and stated that she was not detained, “not even for a minute”. There are no video records of the alleged arrest.
The extreme right tried to mobilize the population into the streets and has used social media to disrupt the inauguration ceremony. With this backdrop, the day before was marked by marches that tested the mobilization capacity of the right to put pressure on the government and security forces to ensure that nothing goes according to plan during the inauguration.
The demonstrations, however, were emptied and cooled the momentum of the country’s extreme right. The Venezuelan opposition has been trying to delegitimize Maduro’s electoral victory in July last year.
Maduro’s main opponent in the election, the former Unitary Platform candidate, Edmundo González Urrutia, even went on a tour of countries governed by the right to try to make an effort to put pressure on Maduro’s government.
The opponent met with the presidents of Argentina, Javier Milei, Uruguay, Luis Lacalle Pou, and the United States, Joe Biden, in an effort to show political strength to attempt a coup in the neighboring country.
Source: vermelho.org.br
