Hundreds of people protested in the streets of Caracas, Venezuela, on July 29.ISRAEL FUGUEMANN (CUARTOSCURO
ELECTIONS IN VENEZUELA
Inside and outside Venezuela, pressure intensifies for a verifiable vote count
At least two people are dead and over 46 arrested as the Chavista government moves to repress the street demonstrations spreading throughout the country
Juan Diego Quesada
Caracas, 30 July 2024
Public anger over suspicions that the government committed fraud in Sunday’s presidential election has spread across Venezuela. Statues of Hugo Chávez, the founder of the left-wing populist movement known as Chavismo, were knocked down with sledgehammers in three cities. Protesters decapitated one of the statues and dragged the bronze head through the streets on a chain tied to a motorcycle, evoking what the Greek mythological hero Achilles did with the corpse of the Trojan prince Hector in Troy. People applauded as they passed.
