Venezuela's opposition votes under the harassment of Chavismo

• Direct witness Leopoldo López returns to the epicenter of the Venezuelan tragedy

• Voting in Spain. Venezuelan exiles vote in Madrid in the consultation of Juan Guaidó: Nicolás Maduro "has sold the country"

Juan Guaidó has played his penultimate card today against the Bolivarian giant.

And it did so with a divided opposition, which in some cases preferred to look the other way and, in others, it bet without dissimulation on the failure of a popular consultation scheduled to confront the Pyrrhic results of the fraudulent elections of Nicolás Maduro.

"This country is going to be what we make of it,"

insisted the interim president, a position that is also at stake.

During the last week, Guaidó put the weight of the consultation on his shoulders, with the explicit support of only a part of the deputies and leaders of the Democratic Unity.

His enthusiasm was so great that he recalled the young deputy from the first months of 2019, when he filled much of the country with hope.

Raise your voice

, that was the proclamation.

And the voice of the irreducible rose again despite the hurricanes against and, above all, despite the aggressions and intimidation launched by the military of the Bolivarian National Guard and the paramilitaries of the Chavista groups.

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Even officers of the Bolivarian National Police walked through different points to check how many people were voting.

Many had to run to take their voting points to other more sheltered places.

The arrests began even one day before the consultation.

It remains to be seen the results, scheduled for the early morning, in an arduous manual count, but

, it also shows apathy and disgust in the face of the national destruction caused by the revolution.

A greater volume was sought than the fraudulent parliamentarians but also images of nurtured participation in a symbolic protest with political objectives, because as has happened with all the legislative initiatives of Parliament for five years they were not launched by the regime.

Nor will they be, although from inside the opposition the answer to the questions of the consultation is clear: increase the mechanisms of internal and external pressure to reach the dispute of truly democratic presidential and parliamentary elections.

The consultation overcame the popular desert experienced last Sunday in elections that only dragged 30% of the census to the polls a week ago (official data denied by the opposition and that they cannot verify), when in the 2015 parliamentary elections, during the historic opposition victory, 71% of the electorate voted.

Despite the meager popular response, Chavismo took 253 of the 277 seats in the Assembly.

The opposition leader began the day in his native Caraballeda, with the warmth of his people.

Then he continued in Caracas while he reported what was happening in the rest of the country and while digital platforms collapsed again.

to receive confirmation of digital votes and ballots from those who only voted in person.

On-site confirmation was not mandatory for those who exercised their right during the week through the Telegram messaging, the VOARTZ application and the website created for the consultation.

The two main obstacles were from the beginning the fear that the government would draw up a new

, the historic

with which Chavismo persecuted the signatories of the recall process against Hugo Chávez.

To vote for Telegram it was necessary to send the identity card, something that in Venezuela produces cold sweats to its citizens who know how far the regime can go in its retaliation.

The second inconvenience faced by the consultation was also known in advance: living in a country with the worst world statistics

, surpassed only by Algeria and Afghanistan, to which must be added the constant electricity blackouts.

Táchira, Barinas and Mérida were the states with the highest participation, precisely the same ones that reached the highest levels of abstentionism during Maduro's congresses.

"Participation has a much greater value than any farce of the regime and is not comparable with the fraudulent process of 6-D. That does not compare in front of a firm and democratic movement such as the popular consultation and with which it faces a dictatorship ", stressed Carlos Vecchio, ambassador to the US.

Opposition crossroads

Not only the difficulties and the Chavez persecution marked the popular consultation.

"Venezuelans are not accompanying politicians in the processes that are called," summarized the political scientist Jesús Seguías, president of Datincorp.

The opposition crossroads goes beyond the persecution announced by the regime against the deputies elected in 2015. One of the first to report his resignation is José Luis Cartaya, undersecretary of the National Assembly, who cited personal and family reasons, although politically he is close to the theses of Henrique Capriles.

The former presidential candidate not only proposes to turn the page, he even calls on the United States to abandon Guaidó and the presidency in charge.

On the other side, the radicals of

remain planted in their demand for a military intervention that no one is going to carry out, as the Donald Trump administration made very clear.

In recent days Leopoldo López, presidential commissioner at the head of Guaidó's cabinet, assured that there is no possibility today of applying the doctrine of R2p (Principle of Responsibility to Protect) in Venezuela.

The European Union and Spain have given each other a month to decide what their relationship will be with the presidency in charge that they recognized in 2019, one more example of the administrative continuity once the five-year legislative period is over, proposed by Guaidó and part of the leadership and parties, does not have the unanimous backing of yesteryear.

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