VENEZUELANS AROUND THE WORLD JOIN IN PROTEST AGAINST ELECTORAL FRAUD \ stacker news ~news

For today, August 17, 2024, a massive worldwide protest was organized, where all Venezuelans would peacefully go out to protest against electoral fraud, against tyranny, against dictatorship, to symbolically shout for our freedom and desire to return to our country, the desire to see it emerge and grow. (Edit: I wrote this yesterday, but it took me so long to get the photos that I'm going to make this post today, August 18, 2024).

Yesterday there were more than 370 protests by Venezuelans around the world and, after looking at all the photos, perhaps we all asked ourselves the question:

Does that solve our problem in Venezuela?

I am not a political scientist, but let's look at the evidence, this is the best I could find:

https://m.stacker.news/46746

A study by Stephan and Chenoweth that reviewed 323 campaigns between 1900 and 2006 using inclusion criteria of size, objectives, and duration.

It showed that nonviolent civil resistance is twice as likely to succeed as violent campaigns in achieving its objectives.

If you like the video format, one of the authors explained the results in just over 10 minutes during a TED Talk https://t.co/Pz8U6Fv5j3

Nonviolent campaigns are successful in 53% of cases vs. 26% of violent campaigns in over 100 years of review. Furthermore, in the last 50 years, nonviolence is more frequent and more successful.

Nonviolent civil resistance is more fruitful for 2 main reasons:

Non-violence attracts a greater number of participants, which generates greater pressure on the ruling coalition and increases the possibility of internal rifts.

In the study, every movement that reached 3.5% of the population committed and without violence was successful.

While a regime can easily justify attacks against a violent campaign, when they do so against non-violent campaigns, the attack is more likely to backfire.

In the face of regime repression, NON-violent campaigns are 6 times more likely to succeed than violent campaigns.

The chance of security force desertion is 4 times higher in NON-violent campaigns compared to violent campaigns (this is key) - See image in comments (1/A)

A case study is Serbia in 2000, when dictator Milosevic falsified the results of an election.

Non-violent protests began and at one point the police decided not to obey the order to suppress them because "they knew their children would be at the protest."

We continue, campaigns that receive international support are three times more likely to be successful against a regime that responds violently.

Regarding time, the duration of the campaign does not affect its chance of success, but longer ones have a limited risk of success.

On the other hand, successful NON-violent campaigns resulted in defections 52% of the time, while violent campaigns resulted in defections 32% of the time.

If there are defections in the security forces in a NON-violent campaign, there is a 46 times greater chance of success than in a violent campaign without defections. - See image in comments (1/B)

In summary, 323 cases studied in 106 years around the world reveal

NON-violence is twice as successful

Security force desertions are key and NON-violence is more likely to generate them

The cost of repression is higher in the face of NON-violence

🇦🇷More than 25 thousand people attended the rally in Buenos Aires. https://m.stacker.news/46728

🇦🇷Massive demonstration of Venezuelan exiles in the city of Buenos Aires, capital of Argentina, in support of María Corina and Edmundo.

🇦🇷Venezuelans in Argentina

Venezuelans in Buenos Aires with printed documents defending the truth.

• 🇨🇱Santiago de Chile Aerial view of Santiago de Chile supporting the freedom of Venezuela

https://m.stacker.news/46726 • 🇲🇽Monument of the Revolution, Mexico City, August 17, 2024 https://m.stacker.news/46734

Venezuelans in Mexico protest against Nicolás Maduro's dictatorship and fraud in the elections.

• 🇪🇸Madrid, Spain This is how the national anthem was heard at the Puerta del Sol in Madrid, Spain. A crowd gathered against the fraud of the Chavista tyranny.

https://m.stacker.news/46515

🇪🇸Gran Canaria/ Bilbao/ Barcelona https://m.stacker.news/46739

🇪🇸Barcelona, Spain https://m.stacker.news/46496 https://m.stacker.news/46511

🇪🇸The Town Hall and the Millennium Dome in Valladolid, Spain, are illuminated with the colors of the Venezuelan flag. https://m.stacker.news/46673 • 🇺🇸Miami https://m.stacker.news/46731

🇺🇸In Times Square, New York, Venezuelans demonstrate against the fraud of the Nicolás Maduro regime.

🇺🇸Massive Global Protest for Truth in San Francisco, California. https://m.stacker.news/46631

🇺🇸Texas/ New York/ Washington https://m.stacker.news/46733

🇺🇸Venezuelans in the World from Atlanta USA

🇺🇸Venezuelans in Las Vegas

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🇵🇪Venezuelans in Lima joined together to defend the truth in Venezuela and demand respect for what was expressed at the polls on 28Jul https://m.stacker.news/46725

• 🇨🇴Mayor of Bogotá, Carlos F. Galán: "Bogotá will not be complicit in electoral fraud." https://m.stacker.news/46719

Bogotá and Medellín https://m.stacker.news/46732

Venezuelans in Medellín reject Gustavo Petro's government's proposal to redo the elections in Venezuela.

• 🇬🇧Venezuelans in Bournemouth, United Kingdom/ 🇵🇷Puerto Rico/ 🇨🇦Canada/ Big Island, Hawai'i https://m.stacker.news/46676

🇵🇦Panama took to the streets this Saturday against fraud in Venezuela. https://m.stacker.news/46618

🇨🇷A group of Nicaraguan exiles accompanied Venezuelans who participated in the Great World Protest for Truth in San José, Costa Rica. https://m.stacker.news/46675

• 🇧🇷From Rio de Janeiro We are united by the same desire for change and freedom! https://m.stacker.news/46451

🇧🇷Macaé, Campinas y Manaos, Brasil https://m.stacker.news/46677

🇧🇷Sao Paulo, Brasil https://m.stacker.news/46718

🇪🇨From Bicentennial Park, Quito, Venezuelans join the great world protest defending the truth of Venezuela https://m.stacker.news/46626 • 🇻🇪Caracas A banner with the names of political prisoners is displayed at the rally called by María Corina Machado and Edmundo González. https://m.stacker.news/46509 https://m.stacker.news/46482 https://m.stacker.news/46483 https://m.stacker.news/46745

The Committee of Relatives of Political Prisoners presented at the rally held in Caracas the names of the 2,500 political prisoners currently in Venezuela

🇻🇪San Cristóbal, Venezuela https://m.stacker.news/46674

🇻🇪Puerto Ordaz came out with documents in hand to demand freedom

🇻🇪Carabobo, Venezuela

https://m.stacker.news/46727

🇻🇪Lara, Venezuela

🇻🇪Chichiriviche, Falcón https://m.stacker.news/46717

🇻🇪Barinas

🇻🇪Lecheria

https://m.stacker.news/46729

🇻🇪Junín and Tucupita representing Táchira and Delta Amacuro. Venezuela takes to the streets in a civic manner to demand that our will be respected!

🇻🇪Nueva Esparta

🇻🇪Mérida

• 🇲🇹Malta

🇺🇾Montevideo, Uruguay The Venezuelan National Anthem is heard at full volume in Montevideo, Uruguay.

https://m.stacker.news/46724

🇵🇹Portugal https://m.stacker.news/46740

🇨🇭Suiza https://m.stacker.news/46741

🇬🇧From the United Kingdom, thousands of Venezuelans and local patriots are calling for the liberation of Venezuela from the murderous dictatorship of Nicolás Maduro.

In front of the Venezuelan Embassy in London

Iqaluit, Nunavut (Inuit territory). https://m.stacker.news/46457

🇦🇺Australia https://m.stacker.news/46628

🇦🇷El Bolson in Argentine Patagonia https://m.stacker.news/46474

🇧🇸Venezuelans in Nassau https://m.stacker.news/46481

🇨🇾Protests against the Maduro regime in Venezuela are also taking place in Cyprus, in the Mediterranean Sea. https://m.stacker.news/46514

🇮🇹Verona - Italia

🇮🇹From Milan, Italy

🇫🇷Toulouse, Bayonne, Paris https://m.stacker.news/46632

From Paris and despite the rain

🇳🇱Venezuelans in Amsterdam, Netherlands, join global protest against Maduro's fraud.

Budapest

🇩🇪rally in Frankfurt for Venezuela

🇨🇦Montreal, Canadá

🇳🇱Amsterdam/ 🇩🇰Dinamarca/ 🇨🇿VPrague/ 🇫🇮Helsinki, Finland/ 🇧🇪Belgica https://m.stacker.news/46651

🇵🇱 Polonia /🇳🇿New Zealand/ 🇯🇵Japon/ 🇭🇺Budapest - Hungary https://m.stacker.news/46633

🇩🇪Venezuelans in Frankfurt/ 🇮🇹Turin, Italy/ 🇲🇾 Malasia/ 🇻🇳 Vietnam/ 🇬🇧 Belfast https://m.stacker.news/46657

🇨🇦City Hall de Calgary/ 🇭🇷Zagreb,Croacia/ 🇮🇳India/ 🇬🇹Guatemala/ 🇪🇨Guataquil, Ecuador/ 🇴🇲Oman https://m.stacker.news/46678

🇯🇵Osaka/ 🇱🇻Letonia/ 🇪🇬Egipto/ 🇳🇴Stavanger/ 🇪🇸Murcia/ 🇲🇹Malta/ Bahrein/ 🇫🇷París https://m.stacker.news/46693

🇬🇷Grecia/ 🇮🇸Islandia/ 🇵🇾Paraguay/ 🇹🇼Taiwan/ 🇧🇬 Bulgaria/ 🇸🇪 Estocolmo/ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Escocia https://m.stacker.news/46694

🇸🇰Bratislava, Eslovaquia/ 🇮🇱Israel/ Gaza/ 🇦🇶Antártida/ 🇱🇧Beirut/ 🇦🇺Australia/ 🇧🇪Bruselas https://m.stacker.news/46712

🇯🇵Shibuya, Japón/ 🇦🇺Brisbane, Australia/ 🇩🇪Sajonia, Dresden/ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿Manchester Inglaterra/ País Vasco/ 🇯🇵Tokio, Japon/ 🇰🇷Korea del Sur https://m.stacker.news/46715

From Uganda, in Africa, a Venezuelan woman sends a heartfelt message to her fellow countrymen: "We are only three people living in Uganda, but from here we are with you Venezuela and we want a free Venezuela"

🇩🇴Venezuelans in the Dominican Republic

🇦🇺Neither rain nor cold prevented Venezuelans in Perth, Australia, from gathering in the great global protest against Maduro's fraud

🇵🇷Capitolio de San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Dublin-Ireland Protest for freedom in Venezuela

🇸🇻Venezuelans in El Salvador also gathered to protest against Maduro's fraud.

• • The moment in which Maduro's tyranny kidnaps a Venezuelan citizen is recorded.

• The Nicolás Maduro regime began to repress the protesters who were gathering in Maracay, Aragua state.

• Nicolás Maduro's dictatorship militarizes part of Petare to intimidate, instill psychological terror and prevent people from coming down to protest against the fraud.

• The governor Karina Carpio ordered the repression of the Aragonese again. Aragua is the state with the most deaths in protests against the fraud of July 28.

• Maracay

• Even though Venezuela Avenue and 26th Street were taken over by the Police and the National Guard, the people overcame fear, this is how Barquisimeto is until now and until the end.

• Images of the arrest of Piero Maroun, Secretary of the National Organization of AD in Resistance. He was arrested last night in Caracas while having dinner with his wife.

• Maduro militarizes all of Caracas to prevent protests; the dictatorship has deployed approximately 6,000 military and police officers.

• In Machiques, Zulia:

The Nicolás Maduro regime kidnaps a priest in his truck while protesters were praying a rosary.

• Armed men get out of the truck and take the regional Organization Secretary of the political party Un Nuevo Tiempo and the CLEC Deputy, Carlos Molina, into custody after leaving the rally in Valencia in the State of Carabobo.

• The arbitrary detention of the lawyer Henry Gómez Fernández, defender of human rights, along with a group of people, was confirmed. They are in the GN Command No. 63 of Puerto Ayacucho, state of. Indigenous

• Mabel Melendez, a young woman who made a cardboard tank with a message of peace during the peaceful protest today, August 17, in El Tijerazo, was arrested in Carabobo.

We are informed that two security guards at her residence were also arrested for police in Carabobo.

• Father asks for freedom for his minor son (15 years old) imprisoned in Venezuela! Detained, beaten causing facial paralysis

They report that a crane from the National Police of the Maduro regime has confiscated the truck used by María Corina Machado and Edmundo González for opposition rallies

Food with worms, five liters of water for fifteen people, cells without ventilation. These are the conditions in which those detained by the Maduro regime after the July 28 elections in Venezuela are held.

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @plebpoet 19 Aug

Incredible to look in on this stuff, thank you for reporting

63 sats \ 1 reply \ @TheMorningStar 19 Aug

You're doing a very good job! Reporting everything about Venezuela isn't an easy task.

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @bief57 OP 19 Aug

Thank you very much, and thank you for taking a few minutes to read the post.

43 sats \ 1 reply \ @Golu 19 Aug

So good! I've listened about Venezuelan crisis but only come to know in depth today.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @bief57 OP 19 Aug

It is a very broad topic. Many things have happened in 25 years, many of which were never broadcast on TV. Things have happened that even Venezuelans don't know about. Every day more people are kidnapped and murdered. We must remember that it is not simply a dictatorship, it is drug traffickers.

31 sats \ 1 reply \ @flat24 19 Aug

Congratulations! 🎉 Great article, you have done an excellent job! Keep it up! It is undoubtedly a great contribution to the peaceful struggle to achieve the goals of seeing a free Venezuela again! And that more people join the movement and more people see the reality that is happening there.

Thank you very much. People are used to resolving conflicts with violence, even I have often asked/wished for years that a bomb would be dropped on the tyrants, to end this nightmare once and for all. I am afraid of getting my hopes up, of having faith, but my job is to keep us informed about what is happening in Venezuela.

31 sats \ 3 replies \ @SatsMate 18 Aug

Excellent post, I wonder ultimately how this situation will unravel. Will Maduro really ever give up his power without a fight? He is going to hold that position until it is forcibly removed from him.

He will not give in of his own free will, he will leave power in handcuffs or without life. Perhaps they will betray him or we will have international help. Peaceful protests are slow but with a better margin of results, while we profess peace, they profess violence and there is evidence, so that helps to put pressure on. Thanks for commenting

21 sats \ 1 reply \ @flat24 19 Aug

As long as peaceful pressure continues, its ability to maneuver is reduced every day. Hopes are that this regime will fall this year... Enough is enough! FREE VENEZUELA 🇻🇪

Exactly, that's right

31 sats \ 1 reply \ @cryotosensei 18 Aug

Thank you for pouring your heart and soul into this

Thank you sensei, I appreciate your words.

26 sats \ 0 replies \ @Msd0457890 19 Aug

We Venezuelans have fought every day to defend and recover the freedom that a corrupt government has tried to take away from us through repression and death, and that has strengthened its power more and more every day.

21 sats \ 2 replies \ @cascdr 19 Aug

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71 sats \ 0 replies \ @CHADBot 19 Aug bot

Absolutely tremendous what I've read here, folks. Huge protests all over the world, peacefully standing up against the electoral fraud in Venezuela. @bief57 is right! He's done his homework! Non-violent campaigns, they win over half the time. Over 100 years of research, folks. They're the smart choice!

There's power in numbers. Just like a Trump rally, when you pack in the crowds, the impact can't be denied. How about that statistic – every movement that mobilized just 3.5% of the population, peaceably, wins every time? Incredible!

Even the tough guys like me know, hitting back against peaceful protestors is a BAD look. Maybe that's why non-violent movements are SIX times more successful when the regime gets tough. Good guys winning! And let's talk about the importance of loyalty, or better yet, disloyalty! Non-violent protests cause 4 times more security force desertions. It's like they say, "Keep your friends close, but not too close!" HA!

Let's not forget the protestors all around the world. Buenos Aires, Santiago, Mexico City, Madrid, Miami, New York! Venezuelans worldwide are fighting for change. Fantastic! Furthermore, I really like the dedication from this Venezuelan lady from Uganda. Just three people, but support is support!

Lastly, the abuses by Mr. Maduro are getting everyone's attention. Arbitrary arrests, even kids and a priest! The strongman act is tired and the world will not stand for it. Great job @bief57 for informing us and keep pushing for freedom! Venezuela will be GREAT again!

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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @bief57 OP 18 Aug

(1/A) https://m.stacker.news/46747

(1/B) https://m.stacker.news/46748

I had to put the images here, because I was going overboard, I even had to make collages with the photos, I missed many that I wanted to publish and I left others with the links.

https://m.stacker.news/46749

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Satoshi__Nakamoto 19 Aug

https://m.stacker.news/46812

My country hurts, in which city was this photo taken?

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @sangekrypto 19 Aug

In every country human rights must be protected, the right to speak must also be protected, the right to freedom must also be protected, if a case like this becomes global then the UN's job is to help resolve it.

They should... we have been waiting for 20 years for them to help, they have not been very useful, let's hope this year if they react, there is too much evidence to support us.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Athena 19 Aug

Great post. Thanks for sharing updates.