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Image is of a colectivo: an armed group, usually operating in impoverished areas, which act to support and defend the socialist government of Venezuela. They are often derided as vigilante terrorist groups which prop up the government, because cops are only bad when they are socialist and not murdering minorities, I suppose.


Maduro's party, the PSUV, has won the election after a staggering amount of propaganda by the opposition, who said their polls suggested they were going to win and that Maduro's loss was inevitable. The reaction across Latin America is what one would expect. Left-leaning leaders are generally respecting the results and congratulating Maduro, while those on the right and/or are US puppets (such as in semirecently-couped Peru) are calling for recounts, or even that the election was illegitimate. The US itself is also unhappy about the results. We shall soon see if their unhappiness boils over into yet another coup attempt.

Personally, I think they should have ran Guaido again.

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Thank you to @Redcuban1959@hexbear.net for the election coverage here, and everything else they do in the news megathread.


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Sources on the fighting in Palestine against Israel. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:

UNRWA daily-ish reports on Israel's destruction and siege of Gaza and the West Bank.

English-language Palestinian Marxist-Leninist twitter account. Alt here.
English-language twitter account that collates news (and has automated posting when the person running it goes to sleep).
Arab-language twitter account with videos and images of fighting.
English-language (with some Arab retweets) Twitter account based in Lebanon. - Telegram is @IbnRiad.
English-language Palestinian Twitter account which reports on news from the Resistance Axis. - Telegram is @EyesOnSouth.
English-language Twitter account in the same group as the previous two. - Telegram here.

English-language PalestineResist telegram channel.
More telegram channels here for those interested.

Various sources that are covering the Ukraine conflict are also covering the one in Palestine, like Rybar.

Russia-Ukraine Conflict

Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict

Sources:

Defense Politics Asia's youtube channel and their map. Their youtube channel has substantially diminished in quality but the map is still useful. Moon of Alabama, which tends to have interesting analysis. Avoid the comment section.
Understanding War and the Saker: reactionary sources that have occasional insights on the war.
Alexander Mercouris, who does daily videos on the conflict. While he is a reactionary and surrounds himself with likeminded people, his daily update videos are relatively brainworm-free and good if you don't want to follow Russian telegram channels to get news. He also co-hosts The Duran, which is more explicitly conservative, racist, sexist, transphobic, anti-communist, etc when guests are invited on, but is just about tolerable when it's just the two of them if you want a little more analysis.
On the ground: Patrick Lancaster, an independent and very good journalist reporting in the warzone on the separatists' side.

Unedited videos of Russian/Ukrainian press conferences and speeches.

Pro-Russian Telegram Channels:

Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.

https://t.me/aleksandr_skif ~ DPR's former Defense Minister and Colonel in the DPR's forces. Russian language.
https://t.me/Slavyangrad ~ A few different pro-Russian people gather frequent content for this channel (~100 posts per day), some socialist, but all socially reactionary. If you can only tolerate using one Russian telegram channel, I would recommend this one.
https://t.me/s/levigodman ~ Does daily update posts.
https://t.me/patricklancasternewstoday ~ Patrick Lancaster's telegram channel.
https://t.me/gonzowarr ~ A big Russian commentator.
https://t.me/rybar ~ One of, if not the, biggest Russian telegram channels focussing on the war out there. Actually quite balanced, maybe even pessimistic about Russia. Produces interesting and useful maps.
https://t.me/epoddubny ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/boris_rozhin ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/mod_russia_en ~ Russian Ministry of Defense. Does daily, if rather bland updates on the number of Ukrainians killed, etc. The figures appear to be approximately accurate; if you want, reduce all numbers by 25% as a 'propaganda tax', if you don't believe them. Does not cover everything, for obvious reasons, and virtually never details Russian losses.
https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses ~ Pro-Russian, documents abuses that Ukraine commits.

Pro-Ukraine Telegram Channels:

Almost every Western media outlet.
https://discord.gg/projectowl ~ Pro-Ukrainian OSINT Discord.
https://t.me/ice_inii ~ Alleged Ukrainian account with a rather cynical take on the entire thing.


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[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago

The Venezuelan Attorney General, Tarek William Saab, announced that the CNE will present all the electoral records of the presidential elections held on Sunday. - Telesur Spanish (Translated)

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He announced that the National Electoral Council (CNE) will present all the electoral records of the presidential elections held on Sunday.

The Venezuelan Attorney General, Tarek William Saab, announced this Monday that the National Electoral Council (CNE) will present all the electoral records of the presidential elections held on Sunday.

In a press conference, the prosecutor advanced that with the minutes, the discrepancies presented in the process will end.

“The CNE informed that soon the results will be available in its web page table by table, as it has been historically done thanks to the Automated Voting System”.

He informed about an attack against “the data transmission system of the CNE”.

“The attack would have been carried out from North Macedonia, and would have had the intention of manipulating the data that was being received at the CNE (...) According to the information gathered” it involves ‘Lester Toledo, Leopoldo López and María Corina Machado’.

Saab pointed out that, during yesterday's elections, there were attempts of aggression to the electric system and a computer attack against the data transmission system of the CNE, which slowed down the sending of minutes for the national scrutiny.

He indicated that the attack would have been carried out from North Macedonia, with the intention of manipulating the data received by the CNE.

“This action was stopped, it was prevented, but they managed to pause and slow down” the transmission. “They did not want to slow down but to adulterate the transmission records of the system.

They are the main responsible for this action that I am denouncing as Attorney General of the Republic”. He pointed out that the elements of conviction are being collected. The Prosecutor pointed out that an investigation has been opened and the 38th and 74th national prosecutors have been appointed.

They are also alert before the possible calls of “a radical sector with a long history of calls to insurrection”, and warn that the acts of violence and calls to disregard results may be framed as public instigation, obstruction of public roads, instigation to hatred and resistance to authority.

We call on the population not to allow themselves to be used in destabilizing agendas that respond to petty interests alien to the national interest, which seek chaos, unrest and the suffering of the majority of our people.

Venezuela's Attorney General, Tarek William Saab, rejected the interference of some Latin American governments after Sunday's presidential elections.

Saab confirmed 17 arrests during the Venezuelan presidential election. He confirmed that during the July 28 presidential elections 60 incidents were registered, resulting in 17 arrests. He stressed that most of the cases were due to the destruction of electoral material, with a total of 32 incidents reported in this regard.

Among the most serious events, Saab mentioned that a group of violent individuals destroyed goods and real estate of the Integral Diagnostic Center (CDI) “Río Negro” in Machiques de Perijá, incinerating electoral machines.

In this case, three persons were arrested after being identified by the community. In Trujillo state, Aura Guerra, María Batista, Isaac Quevedo and Diego Urbina were arrested for attempting to close a polling station with chains and assaulting officials.

In Carabobo, Juan Rodríguez and Exar Castillo were arrested for inciting violence and assaulting members of the security forces. Saab also reported incidents in Caracas, where Douglas García and Jorge Salcedo were identified as leaders of violent actions at Liceo Andrés Bello.

In Zulia, Yeissel Pérez, deputy of the Legislative Council of the State of Zulia, was accused of instigating a violent protest at a voting center in Maracaibo, where aggressions to officials were reported.

In addition, Saab mentioned Deivi Israel Correa Bracoviche, known in social networks as “Deivi Correa”, for making calls to disregard the electoral results.

[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago

Chancellors of Brazil, Colombia and Mexico are considering going to Venezuela to talk to Maduro and González For the dialogue to progress, the idea is to start the dialogue without the participation of the main opposition leader, María Corina Machado.

The mobilization of the three countries was one of the points discussed last Thursday afternoon in a telephone conversation that lasted about an hour between Presidents Lula, Colombian Gustavo Petro and Mexican Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

According to diplomatic sources, it will be up to Mexico to approach them to set up the dialogue table.

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