It's been months since I posted here. I decided to focus on other things, specifically the situation in my country. I don't expect this post to be read nor do I hope for it to get voted, I just want to write again.
As some of you may know, Venezuela recently had an election and the regime blatantly stole it, but unlike the other occasions when this has happened, this time the opposition leaders accessed the official ballots and could definitely prove that Nicolás Maduro had lost pretty much in every parish in the country. I don't think there's ever been any electoral result in history that so totally gives victory to a contender.
This is especially relevant considering the fact that the regime didn't open the electoral registry for new voters to join the process, and prevented 99% of Venezuelans abroad (about eight million people) from voting too, so this already humiliating landslide could've gone way worse for chavismo. Even traditionally chavista strongholds turned their backs on Maduro, and when the electoral fraud (which we were all expecting) came, those same strongholds began a fierce campaign of public demonstrations and were repressed more brutally than any other place in the country, to the point that criminals had to take a side and began firing against security forces.
This was only for a short while, however. The regime imprisoned over 2,000 people, many of whom are still unaccounted for, and unofficially killed about 20 people in the context of the protests, though the actual number is probably much higher and couldn't be ascribed solely to protests. They actively persecuted electoral witnesses and opposition volunteers. They also annulled passports of people who traveled to the country to vote, political activists or just random people suspected of having dissented in some way. Therefore, people stopped posting about the situation on social media to avoid drawing unwanted attention.
The chavista regime, already weakened by years of their own mismanagement and corruption, is declining fast. They've been unable to produce proof to contradict their fraud, and the Carter Center, the only foreign monitoring organization they allowed for the process, has already pronounced Edmundo González as the winner. They've got nothing, not even their usual violent response is enough because there aren't any mass demonstrations to repress right now. And they're isolated, far more than ever before.
To be continued.