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Mass Protests Erupt In Venezuela As Voters Refuse To Accept Incumbent Dictator’s Dubious Election Victory
From the Daily Caller News Foundation
By JAKE SMITH
A crowd of protesters attempted to reach the presidential palace but were stopped by law enforcement, according to the Times. Another crowd in Cumana, located hundreds of miles from Caracas, made its way toward Venezuela’s election headquarters but was stonewalled by the National Guard.
Mass protests broke out across Venezuela on Monday and Tuesday in reaction to incumbent socialist-dictator Nicolas Maduro’s questionable claim to victory in the country’s presidential election on Sunday, according to multiple reports.
Maduro declared himself the winner of the presidential election despite concerns that votes had been tampered with and the election set in his favor. With the opposing party refusing to concede defeat and the international community condemning the election as rigged, protesters have taken to the streets of Venezuela to decry Maduro as his regime works to suppress resistance, according to several accounts.
“I’ll fight for my country’s democracy. They stole the election from us,” one masked protester told Reuters.
“We are tired of this government, we want a change. We want to be free in Venezuela. We want our families to return here,” another protester told Reuters.
Protesters took to Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, reaching government installations that had not seen such demonstrations in decades, according to The New York Times and Reuters. Some protesters in Caracas and other cities ripped apart posters of Maduro while others lit fires in the streets and threw petrol bombs at law enforcement, which in turn fired tear gas to disperse crowds.
A crowd of protesters attempted to reach the presidential palace but were stopped by law enforcement, according to the Times. Another crowd in Cumana, located hundreds of miles from Caracas, made its way toward Venezuela’s election headquarters but was stonewalled by the National Guard.
Flights coming into Venezuela from Panama and the Dominican Republic will be suspended starting on Wednesday amid the spike in protests, according to CNN. Maduro’s government decried the protesters as insurgents.
Maduro’s government has already excommunicated several diplomatic missions from Latin American countries that have decried the elections as rigged, according to the Times. The government also announced investigations into members of the opposition party on accusations of election fraud. The U.S. and several members of the West have declared Maduro’s claim to victory as baseless and an attempt to stay in power while undermining democracy, similar to their reactions to his questionable 2018 reelection.
The government and the electoral council have refused to release a detailed tally of the voting results, even as it declared victory for Maduro — further raising concerns that the election had been stolen, according to the Times.
“Not even (Maduro) believes the electoral scam he is celebrating,” Argentinian President Javier Milei said on Tuesday of Venezuela’s elections, according to Reuters.
Featured image credit: Maduro screenshot/PBS NewsHour
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House Unanimously Passes Bill Boosting Secret Service Protection For Presidential Candidates
Former President Donald Trump on the stage in Butler, Pa. on July 13, 2024, as shots are fired at him. (Screen Capture/CSPAN)
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The House unanimously passed a bill Friday that would bolster U.S. Secret Service protections for major presidential candidates in the aftermath of a second assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump.
The bill, titled the “Enhanced Presidential Security Act,” passed the House in a 405-0 vote after two assassination attempts on Trump took place between in July and September. The bill would require the Secret Service director to equally apply standards for protections for presidents, vice presidents, as well as major presidential and vice presidential candidates.
“It’s unacceptable that now we’re at two assassination attempts on President Trump,” House Majority Leader Steve Scalise said in a press release. “The Secret Service has to provide the same level of protection for presidential candidates as for presidents so that something like this doesn’t happen a third time. The future of our country is at stake.”
“Political violence has no place in our country, but when it does rear its ugly head, we must ensure we’ve done everything possible to prevent it from being successful,” Scalise continued.
On July 13, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks took aim and fired multiple shots at the former president from a rooftop positioned just 130 yards away from a rally stage in Butler County, Pennsylvania. Leading up to the rally, Crooks was reportedly spotted by attendees, flagged by Secret Service, and even identified by a local counter sniper over an hour before Trump stepped on stage.
Within two months of the Butler shooting, 58-year-old Ryan Wesley Routh attempted to assassinate Trump while the former President was golfing at the Trump International Golf Course in West Palm Beach, Florida. Routh was arrested by authorities after his “AK-47 style rifle with a scope” was spotted in the bushes on the course by a Secret Service agent.
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“Mainstream media bias is beyond biased”
Back in 2020, venture capitalists Chamath Palihapitiya, Jason Calacanis, David Sacks, and David Friedberg launched a new podcast called All In. The All In Podcast focuses on business, technology, current events, market trends, and politics.
With well over 600,000 subscribers on Youtube, and over 400,000 followers on X, the All In Podcast is clearly becoming an extremely influential source of ideas, information, and discussion. This month, the founders held a live summit event in Los Angeles featuring the likes of Elon Musk and alternative news mogul Bari Weiss.
Exerts from that event are making the rounds on the internet including these video snippets from the session with Bari Weiss, editor and CEO of The Free Press.
🇺🇸DAVID SACKS: THE TURNING POINT FOR ME WITH THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA WAS DURING COVID
“I agree with you that the mainstream media is not just biased; it's like all propaganda, all the time.
And the turning point for me in realizing this was COVID.
I think before COVID, I… https://t.co/emIRi4lf21 pic.twitter.com/NzpYNAb94M
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) September 19, 2024
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