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@rogerwaters
When you parrot Venezuelan regime propaganda, you become an ally of Venezuela's dictatorship.
That's true whether or not that's what you intend to do.
It's true whether or not you realize it's what you're doing.
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The basics:
Everybody hates Maduro.
Four out of five Venezuelans want him out.
It's not just the U.S.: every major country in the Americas (except Mexico) is calling for him to go.
He has destroyed the country in every way you can imagine, and some ways you can't.
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🫓 A hooded
@MariaCorinaYA
rises from the crowd. On Thursday, Machado published a WSJ piece in which she said that she feared for her life.
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🫓 Reports of high voting turnout throughout Venezuela. This is the queue outside a polling station in the small Andean town of Seboruco, Táchira, at 6:50 am.
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@rogerwaters
Roger Waters supports FAES, Maduro's death squads.
It's likely he doesn't realize that. But that's neither here nor there.
As a matter of plain fact, Roger Waters supports death squads.
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Uruguay was on fire 🔥 today at the OAS.
It doesn’t require translation.
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Someone should tell
@taylorswift13
that the Venezuelan fight for democracy has a swiftie soul.
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@rogerwaters
Roger Waters supports the torture chambers SEBIN runs under Plaza Venezuela, (La Tumba.)
He supports the imprisonment of political dissidents in El Helicoide.
It's likely he's never heard of SEBIN, or La Tumba, or El Helicoide.
It doesn't matter. He still supports them.
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This needed English captions.
Live censorship on Venezuelan state TV. It’s funny, it’s sad, it’s Venezuela.
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Reports of queues already forming overnight outside polling stations across Venezuela, in an election where turnout will be key.
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Siri, show me a joke all Venezuelans understand but ONLY Venezuelans understand...
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🫓 Venezuelans are queueing since 9:00 pm outside polling stations in cities like Valencia and rural towns like Tovar, Barinas and Biscucuy (pictured in that order). The stations won't open until 6:00am. This could indicate high turnout, which could favor the opposition.
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Blanquito
Gracias por la música
Gracias por el Spanglish
"Be yourself que no importa what they say"
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🫓 People chanting: échenle bola!
Which translates to:
Push forward
Just do it
Put balls on it
Help us out.
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Proton está ofreciendo gratis el acceso a sus servidores para la cobertura de las elecciones en Venezuela. Así podrán tener acceso a medios bloqueados y servicios limitados por región.
Go!
We made free
#ProtonVPN
servers available in
#Venezuela
ahead of the country’s
#election
on July 28th. We want to ensure everyone has free and unrestricted access to information and prevent any potential attempts of interference or misinformation campaigns.
➡️ Learn more here:
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1/Thing is, Venezuelans have a hyper-developed ear for communist propaganda. We've been on the receiving end to this stuff for *decades*.
So when a first world leftie like
@IlhanMN
or
@BootsRiley
starts parroting state media, we notice *immediately.*
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We have to be louder about Venezuela.
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Venezuelan journalist Titi González shows a panoramic view of western Caracas -once a stronghold of Chavismo- full of smoke from the spontaneous protests and subsequent clashes:
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Lovely to be joined by so many new Venezuela experts tonight!
Welcome y'all...we've been waiting 20 years for you to notice.
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12 European countries recognize
@jguaido
as caretaker president of Venezuela:
🇩🇪Germany
🇫🇷 France
🇪🇸 Spain
🇱🇹 Lithuania
🇦🇹 Austria
🇩🇰 Denmark
🇵🇹 Portugal
🇱🇻 Latvia
🇬🇧 UK
🇸🇪 Sweden
🇳🇱 Netherlands
🇨🇿 Czech Republic
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Countries recognizing Guaidó today:
🇩🇪Germany
🇫🇷 France
🇪🇸 Spain
🇵🇱 Poland
🇱🇹 Lithuania
🇦🇹 Austria
🇩🇰 Denmark
🇵🇹 Portugal
🇱🇻 Latvia
🇬🇧 UK
🇸🇪 Sweden
🇳🇱 Netherlands
🇨🇿 Czech Republic
Countries recognizing Maduro today:
🇰🇵DPRKorea
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#NotJustCaracas
This is a pro-Guaidó rally in...Altagracia de Orituco!
That's *insane*.
Nobody's ever heard of a political demonstration in Altagracia de Orituco.
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A chavista agent tries to intimidate a journalist while covering the nationwide blackout -which has also turned into a water crisis.
"Who is your President?" the agent asks, "say it, Nicolás Maduro Moros."
The journalist deflects by asking the question to the crowd. Smart kid.
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Maduro gives a speech with a sniper over his head. Everything you need to know about chavismo in one shot.
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🫓 We asked Venezuelans from all over the world to send us clips from the August 17th gatherings.
We received over 100 submissions.
And we did this👇
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🫓 María Oropeza―who leads Machado’s Vente Venezuela party in Portuguesa―records live on Instagram how state agents break into her house and arrest her.
“I’m simply another citizen that wants the country to change. I’m just in the company of God and the Virgin.”
URGENTE: Agentes de la dictadura acaban de secuestran en su casa a la coordinadora de Vente Venezuela en el estado Portuguesa
@mariaoropeza94
.
Lo transmitió en vivo por Instagram.
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Absolutely stunning videos coming in from all around Venezuela.
It's not just Caracas and Maracaibo and the other big cities. It's the kind of small, rural cities where no one has ever protested these last 20 years.
No tear gas anywhere. No arrests anywhere. Maduro dare not.
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🫓 The Maduro administration is dialing up political violence. These are not National Guards with pellets and crowd control shields, these are government kill squads.
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Hamster and Gretel premieres today on
@Disney
channel and on August 17th on
@disneyplus
@pedrofromvzla
interviewed head-writer/co-producer/star
@Joannahausmann
on how she injected some Venezuelan culture into a Disney show.
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Petro really said:
Cese de usurpación
Gobierno de transición
Y elecciones libres
Pero en 2024
Levantamiento todas las sanciones contra Venezuela.
Amnistía general nacional e internacional.
Garantías totales a la acción política.
Gobierno de cohabitación transitorio.
Nuevas elecciones libres.
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🫓 “This is a peaceful fight, but not a weak one,” says
@MariaCorinaYA
to a crowd that chants “we are not afraid.”
Today, in Caracas.
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Recently a Very Silly Spanish Girl stood in front of a McDonald's in Caracas and made a very silly argument that set off a very silly hate-viral debate.
Her "point", such as it was: there can't be a food crisis in a country where you can buy a Big Mac with Fries.
La "crisis humanitaria" de
#Venezuela
parece que no llega al McDonald's. ¿Será porque a ellos les surten vía "canal humanitario"?
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No tweets, no Instagram, no Whatsapp chat messages. No power, no communications.
Five hours and counting.
Darkness and silence
#Venezuela
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In a joint statement, Argentina, Costa Rica, Chile, Ecuador, the US, Guatemala, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, the Dominican Republic and Uruguay reject the TSJ ruling, citing the Court’s lack of independence, and call for an “impartial and independent audit” of the voting tallies.
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🫓 In a WSJ piece published today, Maria Corina Machado, the key figure to the election of Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia as president of Venezuela, admits she is currently in hiding and makes a plea for the international community to step up to the plate.
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When Hugo Chávez took office for the first time, in February 1999, you could buy one American dollar for 573.8 bolivars.
💸 Today, the price of a dollar is 31,277,000,000,000 of those bolivars.
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Guaido's oath, and the support he got from Canada to Argentina, are designed to communicate to all those secretly anti-Maduro officers: now's the time.
Nobody has to go first.
You can all jump *together.*
Do it now.
That's why no Venezuelan you know will sleep tonight.
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🫓 María Oropeza―who leads Machado’s Vente Venezuela party in Portuguesa―records live how state agents break into her house and arrest her.
“I’m simply another citizen that wants the country to change. I’m just in the company of God and the Virgin.”
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🫓 Venezuelans in South Korea, many of them Venezuelan-Korean returnees, also joined the global protest against the CNE's results 🇻🇪🇰🇷
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📢 This is
#Operaci
ónRetuit
En español: Venezuelan Media organizations team up to release video reports with IA anchors.
Censorship and persecution are two big things in 🇻🇪 journalism right now.
Verified and top notch reporting.
🗓 *Primer episodio
#14Ago
*.
#VenezuelaVota
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🫓 🇨🇱 Boric: Chile doesn’t recognize the self proclaimed win by Maduro in the Venezuelan presidential elections. They don’t trust the results, and they will only recognize a win that has been validated by independent international organizations.
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There’s a big game in Lima tonight: Peru plays Venezuela to qualify for the World Cup. There’s a bunch of Venezuelan migrants in Peru.
Guess what? Peruvian migration authorities will be asking for papers at the game.
The dim line between cheating and violating human rights.
Asimismo, la
@PoliciaPeru
contará con el apoyo del
@ReniecPeru
y
@MigracionesPe
para el control de identidad, personas solicitadas por la justicia y de quienes no hayan regularizado los documentos para su estadía en este país.
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Our friend
@LuisCarlos
is one of the most visible faces of dissident journalism in Venezuela. A few days ago, Diosdado's
#conelmazodando
targeted LC with a tinfoil hat propaganda campaign linking him to "the US planned" nationwide blackout.
#D
óndeEstáLuisCarlos
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🫓 Venezuela’s highest court certifies Maduro’s stolen election.
Highest fraud.
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Peak emotional moment for Venezuelans.
#AskAVenezuelan
what the song Color Esperanza by Diego Torres has meant to the opposition for 15 years.
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🫓 Maria Corina Machado makes a call to the military and the police to stand behind the will of the people and detach from Maduro.
Venezolanos, ciudadanos militares y funcionarios policiales,
Nuestro mensaje en esta hora decisiva para el futuro de la República.
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We’ve been through a lot.
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🫓 Chavista urban armed groups (Colectivos) appear to be marking houses of opposition folk in the 23 de enero neighborhood.
Almost every house in the street is marked.
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Standing ovation in Miami for Simón, directed by Diego Vicentini. The film tells the story of a student who flees Venezuela after being tortured by the Venezuelan National Guard.
Powerful stuff.
Produced by friend of the blog
@MarcelRasquin
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🫓 The statement they couldn’t issue from Venezuelan ground. Damn.
Venezuela’s 2024 presidential election did not meet international standards of electoral integrity and cannot be considered democratic.
Statement:
Declaración:
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🫓 North Macedonia says it has not received any request from the Venezuelan government to investigate the alleged cyberattack organized there by the opposition, according to Attorney General Saab.
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🫓 What you need to know about the aftermath of the stolen elections in Venezuela.
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🫓 Venezuelans are protesting throughout the world today. Not only in Caracas, Maracaibo, San Cristóbal, Barquisimeto, Valencia, Miami, Bogotá, Madrid, Panama or Lima but also in cities like Beirut, Cairo, Tokyo and Kuala Lumpur (the four pictured).
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🫓 This is the National Library in Caracas a key repository of historical documents, of Venezuela’s collective memory.
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🫓 María Corina Machado announces the opposition has already recovered 85% of the tallies. "This [public] servant will have more than 8 million votes", Edmundo González Urrutia said.
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Hear me out.
Activists in New York City, U.S., protest in front of Fox News to denounce its lies against Venezuelan popular democracy and its active role in the ongoing coup against Venezuela orchestrated by U.S. imperialism.
#HandsOffVenezuela
📽️
@pslnational
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🫓 Maduro working hard to block Venezuelans from the rest of the world.
Websites currently blocked by CONATEL:
@x
@binance
@Mercadolibre
@Microsoft
@ProtonVPN
Apart from blocking local and foreign media, of course.
El bloqueo es chavista.
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Satellites pictures show how, in two decades, a common prison spawned slums with streets, a pool and zoo area and even a baseball diamond.
@ljmaldon
shows how a whole city –increasingly formal– sprawled around Tocorón's buildings 🧵
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There's a lot of confusion in Caracas right now. Filter what you read, and be mindful of what you share.
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Terrible for Venezuela and countries where authoritarian regimes limit access to information.
To address extreme levels of data scraping & system manipulation, we’ve applied the following temporary limits:
- Verified accounts are limited to reading 6000 posts/day
- Unverified accounts to 600 posts/day
- New unverified accounts to 300/day
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🫓 There’s a bunch of foreign mercenaries posting pro chavista content and staging protests abroad to support Maduro’s stolen election. All of this paid for with Venezuelan oil money, of course. No shame.
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Chavismo easily blinded some progressives and made them accomplices of its propaganda wars, thanks to shallow perspectives inherited from Cold War fanaticism.
A scorching piece by Myrna-Paula Corvalan👇
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How to identify a Venezuelasplainer:
1-Gives long conferences about a country he/she doesn’t know.
2-Fights on the internet with Venezuelans who live the crisis everyday
3-Says dictatorship is a necessary ill.
4-Doesn’t understand facts nor figures.
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Our dear
@Naky
that she hasn't had any contact with her husband
@LuisCarlos
since this afternoon (5:30 p.m.). As most of you know, Luis Carlos Díaz is a very incisive journalist who has been fact checking and challenging the regime since the beginning.
#D
óndeEstáLuisCarlos
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In case there are any non Venezuelans reading, the tune of the national anthem is also used for a popular lullaby to which most of us have been put to sleep.
Very appropriate ending for such an exciting day 🥲 🇻🇪
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No, bueno, si lo hubiésemos escrito nosotros diría —
As the good people of Venezuela make your voices heard tomorrow, on behalf of the American people, we say: "Maduro, bruja, termina de renunciar mmgvo."
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Hi, world. Are you watching closely?
The most exciting electoral event of the year is five days away from us, and we've got you covered 🇻🇪🧵
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It's starting to feel like a historic day for Venezuela.
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🫓Chavista former mayor of Caracas Juan Barreto, close ally of Hugo Chávez and part of dissident Chavismo, supported candidate Enrique Márquez and said they have 36% of the tallies. He said he will will send them to Machado: "Together, we'll have maybe 95% of the tallies."
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He hangs on ***EXCLUSIVELY*** because he's managed to keep the Army on his side.
He's kept them onside through patronage.
He's given the generals control of the oil industry.
He lets generals to grow rich through corruption, illegal gold mining and drug trafficking.
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Venezuela woke up to spontaneous ‘cacerolazos’ or empty pot banging protests, especially in low-income urban areas and barrios. Since then, these have become organic protests despite no official calls from the opposition and gained track. Here’s a list of reports 🧵
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TL;DR: In the process of making a non-sensical argument every economist has known wrong since 1981, Very Silly Spanish Girl accidentally proved Venezuela is a dictatorship.
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Horrific. A chavista-made tragedy that can be seen from space.
Troubled Waters: Venezuela’s Lake Maracaibo is choking with oil slicks and algae.
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1:36 pm - María Corina Machado and Edmundo González Urrutia arrive at the “citizens’ assembly” called by the opposition in the Francisco de Miranda Avenue in Caracas. Lots of motorizados.
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