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Maduro Tells Brazil Soon To Post Electoral Records To The World; Opposition official arrested

Update (1425ET): Brazil's Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva administration had said on Monday it would not congratulate Venezuela's Maduro for now after Sunday's election. “The Brazilian government celebrates the peaceful nature of yesterday [Sunday’s] elections in Venezuela and is closely following the counting process,” he said in a statement. Maduro has responded to the leftist leader, saying he will publish election data with full transparency to the world:

Nicolás Maduro pledged to meet international demands to release full voting records from Venezuela's elections during a meeting with a top adviser to Brazil's Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.according to a Brazilian government official familiar with the matter.

Maduro met Monday with Celso Amorim, Lula's chief foreign affairs adviser, at the Miraflores Palace in Caracas amid growing pressure from Brazil, Colombia and other nations to publicly verify the results of a Sunday election in which he was declared the winner and the opposition claimed fraud.

At this point, nothing more, nothing less nine Latin American countries have not yet officially declared their recognition of Maduro's third mandate. The White House has also said it is “reviewing” what data it can and that there are “indications” that the official results do not “reflect the will of the people”. He has asked the government not to repress the demonstrators.

Meanwhile, opposition party Popular will announced Tuesday at X that your national coordinator Freddy Superlano has been arrested by Maduro's security services. This is probably due to the fact that the opposition candidate Edmundo González is still following his claims of victory and that the election was stolen.

The top military leadership and generals in Caracas have made it clear in a televised speech that they remain loyal to Maduro's government…

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“We've seen this movie before,” Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro said from the presidential palace after a night of mass protests and unrest that has seen clashes with police. The protests are spreading on Tuesday as further large rallies are planned.

“We have been following all acts of violence promoted by the extreme right,” he added in the new statements quoted by Reuters. During the night, several The offices and headquarters of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela were burned by the opposition who accuse that the elections were stolen.

Members of the Bolivarian National Police (PNB) and the Bolivarian National Guard (GNB) clashed from Monday with opposition demonstrators, EPA-EFE.

Maduro also commented: “Here I have a video of the burning of the PSUV headquarters in Calabozo… this is very typical of what they call 'Color Revolutions', designed by the Americans. It's a script.”

Protests have reportedly taken place near the Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, with crowds – many of whom marched on foot from rural districts – clashing with police, including using petrol bombs against the security forces. And how we detailed earlier, several statues depicting former president Hugo Chávez, Maduro's mentor and the country's leader from 1999 to 2013, were toppled.

There are scenes of possible gunfire in the Venezuelan capital. Unverified social media videos appear to show that some of the anti-Maduro protesters are armed.

At the same time, gangs of armed government agents have been patrolling on motorcycles, something that had also happened in similar protests in 2019.

There are some videos circulating that purport to show a burning hospital in the midst of chaos…

Various media correspondents have also observed many peaceful protests around the country. Protesters believe that the opposition candidate, ex-diplomat Edmundo González – endorsed by popular leader Maria Corina Machado – was robbed in Sunday's vote.

“Videos from all over the country, from Charallave to Caucagüita, show crowds banging their pots, a cacophony so loud it can be heard from afar across an entire city.” observed CNN correspondents. “CNN crews witnessed dozens of National Guard soldiers in riot gear cracking down on the mostly peaceful protests with tear gas and batons.”

Unconfirmed footage shows both sides armed and engaged in gun battles…

In his last press conference, the opposition candidate González claimed that he has evidence that the elections were stolen.

“I calmly tell you the truth,” Gonzalez told dozens of supporters. “We have in our hands the record sheets that prove our categorical and mathematically irreversible victory.”

He said this after the National Electoral Council, which is deeply integrated with Venezuela's ruling United Socialist Party, officially declared Maduro the winner and granted him a third six-year term. “Machado told reporters that tally sheets show Maduro and Gonzalez received more than 2.7 million and roughly 6.2 million votes respectively,” according to the AP. But Maduro does pledged to enforce the “rule of law” in the face of protests.

As for the “color revolution” claims, that remember the riots of 2019 which focused on Venezuelan Opposition leader Juan Guaidó trying to launch a coup with the help of the United States.

The current chaos in the capital has prompted some experts to recall press conferences from that period of the Trump administration where senior US officials openly boasted of trying to subvert and divide the population through sanctions and immense pressure politics.

Guaidó was then named by Washington and several Western allies as “interim president,” a title that was more recently quietly abandoned because he has failed to maintain broad support within the country.

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