by Marielbis Rojas
Machado urged those in attendance to “civilly defend the victory of Edmundo González Urrutia” in the July 28 elections, in which the regime committed the worst fraud in the history of the South American country to remain in power for a third term.
“Let’s not stop, we already have more than 84% of the votes,” he said. “They are irrefutable and irreversible proof that we won. And we didn’t just win, we swept the board! Today Venezuela has its president, the whole world knows what we Venezuelans know.”
Machado said that “the official records were processed, scanned and are now on the website that millions of Venezuelans have already consulted, so that the entire world knows that Edmundo González Urrutia won.”
The opposition leader also challenged the National Electoral Council (CNE), controlled by the regime, to “deliver the records once and for all. Why are they taking so long? What are they doing? That is the truth, the victory of Edmundo González Urrutia,” she said.
“We knew what they were capable of, we knew they were going to persecute our witnesses and invent all kinds of traps, and that is why we built a citizen network for months and they were there, defending their vote. These were the most glorious and luminous hours in the history of our country,” he said.
While Machado was addressing the public, several attendees began to raise their hands showing copies of the minutes from their voting centers and handing them to the command where the opponents were speaking.
“We Venezuelans have given the world and history a testimony of organization, discipline, love, intelligence, dedication and courage,” Machado celebrated, adding that “we have achieved this with the people, without money, without means, without gasoline, without transportation.”
He then repudiated the response of the regime’s security forces and said that “there is no reason to repress the people, there is no reason for so much persecution of so many officials who were working to collect the results.”
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The rally took place just hours after Freddy Superlano, leader of María Corina Machado’s Voluntad Popular party, was kidnapped in Caracas by regime officials.
The arrest was reported by Voluntad Popular through the social network X, where they alerted the international community about an “escalation of repression” by the regime against “activists of the democratic cause.”
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Marielbis Rojas is a Venezuelan journalist and communications professional, with a degree in Social Communication from UCAB. She is a news reporter for ADN América.
Photo “María Corina Machado” by María Corina Machado.
