Ignacio Ramonet (L) and teleSUR President Patricia Villegas (R), 2024. Photo: teleSUR
The system offers guarantees to prevent any type of manipulation of the voting machines before, during, and after the voting day.
July 23 (teleSUR) On Monday, the Spanish writer Ignacio Ramonet stated that the characteristics of the Venezuelan electoral system make it impossible to obtain fraudulent results in the presidential elections on July 28.
“The far-right defamation campaign seeks to position the narrative that the presidential elections will be easily manipulated. That is impossible due to the strong safeguards of the electoral system,” he said at “Venezuela Decides 2024,” a TV program hosted by teleSUR President Patricia Villegas.
The Spanish intellectual also reminded that the Venezuelan electoral system offers multiple guarantees to prevent any type of manipulation of the voting machines before, during, and after the voting day.
“The far-right continues to argue that the system is susceptible to being manipulated by the authorities. This theory, however, does not hold,” Ramonet said, recalling that the electronic system is subject to several audits to which representatives of the opposition parties and international observers have access.
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“The Venezuelan electoral system was designed so that it is not vulnerable and does not allow for cheating. It cannot be breached in any way,” Ramonet said, adding that the authorities ultimately guarantee the impartiality of the electoral process.
In an attempt to preemptively delegitimize what will happen on July 28, the far-right opposition is publishing supposed opinion polls with the intention of presenting their candidate as the winner. This early move will allow conservatives to “cry fraud” if their politicians do not win the presidential elections.
“Therefore, it must be repeated that neither the Venezuelan government nor the electoral authorities can cheat because the system is strongly safeguarded,” Ramonet reiterated, reminding that Venezuela is a place where democracy is guaranteed thanks to citizen participation.
Sancti Spíritus, Cuba, Jul 26 (Prensa Latina) The leader of the Cuban Revolution, Raúl Castro, and President Miguel Díaz-Canel are chairing the main event on the July 26, National Rebelliousness Day, in this central province.
At the Major General Serafín Sánchez Valdivia Revolution Square, 5,000 people from Sancti Spiritus, on behalf of all Cubans, celebrate the 71st anniversary of the attacks on the the Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes garrisons.
Salvador Valdés Mesa, member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) and vice president, who was in charge of the keynote speech, highlighted the consequences of the intensified economic, commercial and financial blockade by the United States Government against Cuba.
He praised the economic and social results of the people of Sancti Spiritus, and said that “like all of our people, they have known how to live up, once again, to the height of their glorious history, which treasures an admirable legacy of tradition of struggle from the colonial period to the present.”
The Cuban vice president noted that “Sancti Spíritus has a prominent place in the war of liberation and in the delivery of its children to the Homeland and the construction of the new society, anticipated by Fidel in the Moncada program.”
Deivy Pérez, member of the PCC Central Committee and first secretary in the province, praised the people’s efforts and pointed out that Sancti Spíritus is a land of mambises who will follow the March, as Serafín, mortally wounded, stated.
“Today we come here to evoke the bravery of our ancestors and reaffirm in the present the commitment to the principles that have guided our heroes and martyrs, like those brave young people who took history by storm,” she said.
She evoked the three valuable sons of this land who participated in the deed on July 26, 1953, when Reemberto Abad Alemán lost his life, while Antonio Darío López and Ricardo Santana survived the action.
The main event on the Moncada anniversary was attended by Commander of the Revolution Ramiro Valdés, among other leaders of the State and the Government.
Also present are a delegation from Vietnam, and members of the José Martí European Brigade of Volunteer Work and Solidarity with Cuba, and the Juan Rius Rivera Brigade, from Puerto Rico, as well as the Venceremos Brigade, from the United States.
There is also a delegation of Cuban-Americans from the José Martí Cultural Society, an Afro-American group of solidarity with Cuba, and foreign students who recently graduated from the University of Medical Sciences in Sancti Spíritus.
This is the third time that the main event for the Moncada anniversary is commemorated in Sancti Spíritus, the homeland of Major General Serafín Sánchez Valdivia, hero of all three independence wars and a personal friend of José Martí.
The bond between Cuba and Mexico exceeds 120 years of uninterrupted relationship
July 3 (Granma) The excellent relations between Cuba and Mexico were ratified this Wednesday in a meeting between the president-elect of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, and the member of the Political Bureau and foreign minister of the island, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, who is in the capital of the sister country, as part of the delegation present at the III Ministerial Conference on Feminist Foreign Policies.
Rodríguez Parrilla conveyed the congratulations of the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Party and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, and the affection of the people of Cuba, as reported on the X network.
“In a fraternal atmosphere we talked about the many and intimate ties between our countries,” he wrote, and Sheinbaum, who will be the first female president in 200 years in her country, responded in the same way, gratefully.
The Minister also held a meeting with his Mexican counterpart Alicia Bárcena, as part of a meeting in which they reviewed the bilateral agenda and current regional and international issues.
The relationship between Cuba and Mexico spans more than 120 years of uninterrupted relations, dating back even before the formation of the Republic, and currently extends to sectors such as trade, investment, tourism, energy, fishing, air transport, customs, mining, education and health, which characterizes one of Cuba’s strongest relations in the area. (International Editorial)
Fui recibido por la Presidenta electa de #México@Claudiashein, a quien transmití felicitaciones del Presidente @DiazCanelB y el afecto del pueblo de #Cuba. En un ambiente fraterno conversamos sobre los múltiples y entrañables vínculos entre nuestros países.
Dra. Claudia Sheinbaum@Claudiashein
Me dio mucho gusto platicar con Bruno Eduardo Rodríguez Parrilla, ministro de Relaciones Exteriores de Cuba.
President Maduro along the People of Yarucuy, July 24, 2024 Photo: @PresidencialVen
The president stressed that the political, social, electoral, cultural and spiritual power of Venezuela is the Bolivarian and Chavista people.
July 24 (teleSUR) From the town of San Felipe, in the state of Yaracuy and in the presence of a concentration of Venezuelans, the president, Nicolás Maduro, proposed this Wednesday the expansion and strengthening of the humanist and socialist model of the Venezuelan government.
The Plan of the Fatherland contemplates the transformations that the nation needs in the future and has the support of the deep people, of 240,000 streets of the country, where the teams of the heads and street bosses are located», said the president.
It also guaranteed support to more than 80,000 communities with their members, spokesmen and spokeswomen of the councils and popular circuits of the deep people.
Maduro said that the people have power in the territory guaranteed, mobilized, empowered and organized.
“I have built with the Peace Quadrants a much safer Venezuela than we had in the past, and we are going to build a powerful and safe Venezuela. We have the union of civic, military and police power”, Maduro stressed.
The president stressed that the political, social, electoral, cultural and spiritual power of Venezuela is the Bolivarian and Chavista people.
He also predicted that the victory of Sunday will amaze the world. “It will be the most beautiful electoral victory, the biggest in the electoral history of Venezuela,” he said, while calling it a resounding and irreversible victory.
«Nobody is going to steal the right to peace, tranquility and future of the people”, Maduro said.
The president also praised the state of Yaracuy, because in thirty electoral processes it has been a state where Chavismo has been victorious.
The Venezuelan people will triumph with which they will win peace, the homeland, the workers. “I am simply Nicolás Maduro Moros, a man of the people. From the people I come and to the people I owe my life!” , he stressed and called on all the people to exercise their right to vote in the name of peace.
“We are more mobilized than ever (…) I can assure a great victory,” he shared with the people of San Felipe, during their closing campaign in Yaracuy.
The candidate of the Great Patriotic Pole, Nicolás Maduro Moros, to give continuity to his campaign actions reached the state of Portuguesa, in the town of Guanare, where he presented to the people his plan of transformation for re-election.
The president made available to the people of Portuguesa the Plan of the Seven Transformations (7T) that covers seven points lined up in: Modernize the Economy, Full Independence, Peace, Security and Territorial, Social, Political, Ecological and Geopolitical Integrity.
He then questioned whether other candidates had a plan to carry out after the election, thus demonstrating their readiness for the presidency.
From his plan, he noted that more than two million people gave their views in the preparation of this document. “We think it in good Venezuelan and good Spanish, we do not write it in English or in secret,” he said.
On the other hand, he recalled that the electoral victory 20 years ago against fascism was the basis for the creation of the missions and for the formation of a country that began to live its best times The Commission has already taken a number of initiatives in this field.
“With the decisive, irreversible victory of next Sunday we will open the gates to peace, stability, tranquility and economic progress,” said the president.
“With the victory of your vote and that of the whole people we will open the doors (this time) for 50 years,” he added.
Admitting that he is the president of the people, Maduro told the inhabitants of Guanare that you can’t expect anything from the fascists, but that all “the good things of (Venezuela)” must be expected from the people.
Following this line, he added that “Venezuela is prepared for a new stage”, recalling that this region has been the protagonist of victories.
Damascus, Jul 24 (Prensa Latina) Syrians and Cubans recalled in this capital the 71st anniversary of the attack on the Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes Garrisons during the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista (1952-1958), stressing its historical, patriotic and revolutionary meanings.
Those present at the commemoration of this date ratified the spirit of solidarity, struggle, sovereignty, and mutual support that unites Syria and the Caribbean nation.
The Chargé d’Affaires a.i. of the diplomatic mission here, Luis Javier Cabañas, said that this event represented a decisive milestone in the long battle of the Cuban people for their full liberation.
We remember with pride this epic of our history led by young revolutionaries: Fidel Castro, Raúl Castro, and Abel Santamaría, who threw themselves into combat, with the ideals of freedom of José Martí, and gave their lives to give Cuba all the freedom and social justice, the diplomat said.
He denounced that the U.S. government persists in its campaigns of discredit, lies, and distortions, and the incitement to disorder and chaos, to justify an armed intervention and defeat the Revolution.
July 10 (Belly of the Beast) Welcome to the second installment of Belly of the Beast’s newsletter: Cuba in Context.
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INTERVIEW OF THE WEEK: Hal Klepak
Russian warships visiting Cuba are “not even a significant problem for the United States” – Hal Klepak, professor of military history at the Royal Military College of Canada
After the recent Havana visit of Russian warships, Belly of the Beast journalist Liz Oliva Fernández interviewed Hal Klepak, professor of military history at the Royal Military College of Canada and former advisor to the Canadian foreign minister, defense minister and commander of the Army.
Klepak puts the visit of the Russian ships in context, responds to the question of whether they represented a threat to the United States and explains how the U.S. government’s economic war against Cuba has pushed the island closer to Russia.
Paris, Jul 24 (Prensa Latina) Cuba on Wednesday ratified in the voice of its highest sports authority, Osvaldo Vento, the commitment to promoting sports as an instrument of inclusion and a boost to sustainable development.
The president of the National Institute of Sports, Physical Education and Recreation (INDER) is heading the Cuban delegation at the high-level forum “Changing the Game,” which was held on Wednesday at the headquarters of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
Vento told Prensa Latina that the healthy and inclusive practice of sports has been one of the principles defended by the Cuban Revolution since its beginnings, more than six decades ago.
In that regard, he praised the participation of women and disabled people, in line with the right to physical education, sports and recreation enshrined in the Cuban Constitution.
Referring to the ministerial event and its call to recognize the transforming and progressive role of sports, the INDER president noted that Cuba considered it a violation of his country has suffered more than 60 years of an economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States.
San Salvador, Jul 23 (Prensa Latina) The Association of Health Professionals from El Salvador who Graduated in Cuba, called for actions of solidarity with the island and to exclude it from the list of states sponsoring terrorism.
The United States must remove Cuba from the list that they draw up of states that allegedly do not cooperate with “US counterterrorist efforts,” which is a continuation of the interventionist policy that seeks to destabilize and pressure the Cuban government, without considering the humanitarian consequences that such actions entail, the statement said.
This decision obstructs Cuba’s progress in fundamental areas, especially in the health sector, where its professionals strive daily to improve the quality of life of the population, the association highlighted and considered that Cuba demonstrated on countless occasions its commitment to peace and international cooperation in the fight against terrorism.
The group called on the international community to condemn this policy and to demand Washington to stop it.
“The health and well-being of the people should not be held hostage by hostile and outdated policies that do not reflect the reality or aspirations for peace of the Cubans and Latin American peoples,” the statement added. “Peace, justice, and solidarity must prevail over interventionism and coercion.”
New Delhi, Jul 23 (Prensa Latina) Nilson Acosta, vice president of the National Heritage Council, noted the importance of Cuba’s participation in a UNESCO event here to analyze processes on sites of outstanding universal value.
The World Heritage Committee of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), which chose India to host its 45th meeting, has the power to decide which property is inscribed on the list of outstanding places due to its cultural and natural contribution or is removed from that list because it has lost its outstanding universal value, Acosta told Prensa Latina.
Participants in the event are also analyzing the state of conservation of those sites and even if necessary the inclusion of properties in the list of endangered heritage, he added.
According to the Cuban delegate, the meeting is also an opportunity to examine issues and strategies for the projection and implementation of the convention on cultural and natural heritage, the instrument that establishes which places should be treasured for present and future generations.
Acosta pointed out that in Cuba’s case there is a sustained experience of years of work by the World Heritage Committee, and recalled that Cuba was a member of that group four times.
The vice president of the National Heritage Council stressed that Cuba is cooperating with other countries in the region to reach common issues and consult on aspects related to the implementation of the convention.
Cuba maintains the aforementioned cooperation as part of the Grulac, which brings together the Latin American and Caribbean nations, to reconcile decisions in a common goal, he stressed.
The event, which runs from July 21 to 31, aims to examine 27 nominations of sites to join the prestigious list of World Heritage.
On Tuesday, deliberations began on the state of conservation of 124 natural or cultural wonders already registered on the World Heritage List, including 57 that are considered in danger.
