Venezuelans, Insisting Socialism Was Defeated at the Ballot Box, Double Down in the Fight Against Maduro

‘We are not afraid,’ protesters aver, as incumbent president promises a mass demonstration today, calling for ‘maximum union of the people, the soldiers and the police.’

AP/Matias Delacroix
The Venezuelan opposition leader, Maria Corina Machado, and an opposition candidate, Edmundo Gonzalez, at a protest at Caracas, July 30, 2024. AP/Matias Delacroix

Tens of thousands of angry Venezuelan voters marched through central Caracas yesterday, defiantly pumping the tropical air with their fists. They chanted the decades-old mantra of  Latin America’s left: “El pueblo unido jamás será vencido.” In the upside-down  of  today’s Venezuela today, this roar of “The people, united, will never be defeated” was a demand to end a quarter century of  socialism and the resignation of its leader, President Nicolás Maduro.

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