Maduro’s six-month scramble to hold onto power

Nicolás Maduro celebrates after electoral authorities declared him the winner of the Venezuelan election, on July 29, 2024.FERNANDO VERGARA (AP)

A Maduro's six-month scramble to hold onto power

A reconstruction of the last six months of turmoil in Venezuela following the July elections, highlighting the opposition’s accusations of fraud, the exile of González Urrutia, the presentation of the paper tallies, the repression and persecution of Chavismo, and the growing tension leading up to the inauguration on January 10

 

Hundreds of people protested in the streets of Caracas, Venezuela, on July 29.ISRAEL FUGUEMANN (CUARTOSCURO

ELECTIONS IN VENEZUELA

Inside and outside Venezuela, pressure intensifies for a verifiable vote count

At least two people are dead and over 46 arrested as the Chavista government moves to repress the street demonstrations spreading throughout the country

Juan Diego Quesada

Caracas, 30 July 2024

Public anger over suspicions that the government committed fraud in Sunday’s presidential election has spread across Venezuela. Statues of Hugo Chávez, the founder of the left-wing populist movement known as Chavismo, were knocked down with sledgehammers in three cities. Protesters decapitated one of the statues and dragged the bronze head through the streets on a chain tied to a motorcycle, evoking what the Greek mythological hero Achilles did with the corpse of the Trojan prince Hector in Troy. People applauded as they passed.