Maduro and the United Socialist Party of Venezuela continue to outwit the US-backed Venezuelan opposition

The latest instalment in an externally concocted sad movie serial continues unabated online and offline, explaining why Western-backed electoral conspiracies in Venezuela have failed one after another, but President Nicolas Maduro and the ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) are cleaning up the mess left by the main losers after the July 28 presidential election.

President Maduro, like his extremely popular predecessor Hugo Chávez, continues to outwit the local opposition and its Washington backers as he wins his third consecutive victory, taking proactive and responsive local measures to ensure continuity of governance and curb deliberate chaos.

However, the main opposition losers have already begun to make mistakes at home.

But like the last electoral loser, Juan Guaidó, who was embraced by then-President Donald Trump, President Joe Biden has made it clear that he, too, is leaving the door open for negotiations to eventually reengage the United States in Venezuela’s lucrative and potentially limitless energy sector.

Guaidó has disappointed his Western supporters, including the 51 countries that backed Trump’s choice for Venezuela’s president even as Maduro is serving out his constitutional term.

At the request of President Maduro, Venezuela’s Supreme Court earlier this week issued subpoenas to all candidates for the July 28 election, requiring them to appear at a scheduled judicial review of the election results.

But opposition leader Edmundo González Urrutia not only chose to ignore the judge’s arrest warrant, he also challenged his home country’s Supreme Court, refusing to participate in the judicial review of the election he claimed to have won.

President Maduro and the other candidates attended their respective hearings, but González’s designated seat, which was scheduled to appear on Wednesday, remained empty.

González and María Corina Machado — the latter of whom he replaced as a candidate but who has long been pulling his political strings — remain completely dependent on Washington and a hostile international media to portray them as someone else.

Now, they appear to have chosen a “Russian roulette” approach to win this unwinnable legal battle at home, with all the violence and vandalism reported in the international media occurring after they publicly and firmly refused to accept the official election results on July 29 and invited their supporters to protest.

Gonzalez and Machado and their legal advisers knew they were crossing a dangerous legal line.

So why are they all giving the nation’s highest judicial court a middle finger?

This could very well get Gonzalez into legal trouble, so what happens if the court takes the next reasonable step?

In the United States, Trump’s confidant Steve Bannon learned from bitter experience that even in the fabled Wild West, it is impossible for someone to harm the interests of a judge by refusing a subpoena from the High Court.

But this case is clearly not a question of respecting Venezuelan law, but rather of disrespecting the Venezuelan Constitution and fanning dangerous political flames.

This latest action, aimed at refusing to accept the official results of yet another election in Venezuela — simply because it did not produce the results that were hoped, prayed, and planned for, is very telling of the situations in Israel and Ukraine.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky do have a lot in common: Both are at the end of their terms in parliament and both have good reason to fear jail time; both want the war with Russia and Palestine to go on forever; and elections are the last thing on their minds.

Israel and Ukraine are taking reckless and desperate actions to pressure their American, British and NATO backers to provide more weapons, to remove the security clauses governing the use of the long-range weapons provided – and to directly join their war.

In Israel’s case, Venezuela’s current opposition leader, Corina Machado, is a top Netanyahu supporter.

In 2018, she reportedly sought Netanyahu’s help in overthrowing Maduro and pledged to move Venezuela’s embassy in Israel to occupied Jerusalem.

In 2019, she thanked Israel for recognizing Guaidó, and in 2020, she signed a “cooperation agreement” with Netanyahu’s party on “policy, ideological and social issues” and “strategic geopolitical and security issues.”

Later, on November 5, 2021, Corinna Machado expressed her unreserved support for Netanyahu and Israel in a Facebook post, saying: “Today, all those who defend Western values ​​must also support Israel, a true ally of freedom.”

Under Corina’s leadership, the Gonzalez government is likely to deliver on her promises ahead of schedule, especially as Israel is waging a genocidal war against the Palestinians and Netanyahu needs urgent international support.

In contrast, President Maduro was one of the first Latin American leaders to condemn Israel’s response to the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023 – despite hundreds of harsh economic and commercial sanctions led by the United States, Caracas sent tons of food, medical supplies, drinking water and water pumps, oil, mattresses and other necessities to Gaza.

After the vote on July 28, 2024, the first thing President Maduro said in public was: “Long live Palestine!”

Earlier this month, González, like Guaidó, publicly called on Venezuela’s police and military to abandon Maduro, but Venezuela’s armed forces have overwhelmingly publicly expressed their trust and loyalty to the president and commander-in-chief.

Venezuelan security forces arrested a group of political saboteurs hired to disrupt electricity supplies in eight states days before the July 28 election, while also rounding up more than 2,000 right-wing thugs who were causing chaos and whose numbers surged online, making clear to the international press the severity of hooliganism never seen before.

Maduro and the United Socialist Party of Venezuela have been mobilizing youth, seniors, volunteers, producers and voters to support Maduro for the 29th time out of 31 presidential, legislative and municipal elections in 25 years.

Meanwhile, a growing number of countries and governments are joining the Caribbean and Latin America, Africa and Asia, the Indo-Pacific, Europe, Oceania and beyond — the latest being Laos, Uzbekistan and Turkey — joining China, India, Iran, Russia, South Africa and dozens of other developing countries.

In addition, earlier this week, more than 300 intellectuals, politicians, activists, journalists and leaders came together in a public statement to strongly condemn what they called “fascist violence against Venezuela.”