For today, August 17, 2024, a massive worldwide protest was organized, where all Venezuelans would peacefully go out to protest against electoral fraud, against tyranny, against dictatorship, to symbolically shout for our freedom and desire to return to our country, the desire to see it emerge and grow. (Edit: I wrote this yesterday, but it took me so long to get the photos that I'm going to make this post today, August 18, 2024).
Yesterday there were more than 370 protests by Venezuelans around the world and, after looking at all the photos, perhaps we all asked ourselves the question:
Does that solve our problem in Venezuela?
I am not a political scientist, but let's look at the evidence, this is the best I could find:
A study by Stephan and Chenoweth that reviewed 323 campaigns between 1900 and 2006 using inclusion criteria of size, objectives, and duration.
It showed that nonviolent civil resistance is twice as likely to succeed as violent campaigns in achieving its objectives.
If you like the video format, one of the authors explained the results in just over 10 minutes during a TED Talk
https://t.co/Pz8U6Fv5j3
Nonviolent campaigns are successful in 53% of cases vs. 26% of violent campaigns in over 100 years of review. Furthermore, in the last 50 years, nonviolence is more frequent and more successful.
Nonviolent civil resistance is more fruitful for 2 main reasons:
- Non-violence attracts a greater number of participants, which generates greater pressure on the ruling coalition and increases the possibility of internal rifts.
In the study, every movement that reached 3.5% of the population committed and without violence was successful.
- While a regime can easily justify attacks against a violent campaign, when they do so against non-violent campaigns, the attack is more likely to backfire.
In the face of regime repression, NON-violent campaigns are 6 times more likely to succeed than violent campaigns.
The chance of security force desertion is 4 times higher in NON-violent campaigns compared to violent campaigns (this is key) - See image in comments (1/A)
A case study is Serbia in 2000, when dictator Milosevic falsified the results of an election.
Non-violent protests began and at one point the police decided not to obey the order to suppress them because "they knew their children would be at the protest."
We continue, campaigns that receive international support are three times more likely to be successful against a regime that responds violently.
Regarding time, the duration of the campaign does not affect its chance of success, but longer ones have a limited risk of success.
On the other hand, successful NON-violent campaigns resulted in defections 52% of the time, while violent campaigns resulted in defections 32% of the time.
If there are defections in the security forces in a NON-violent campaign, there is a 46 times greater chance of success than in a violent campaign without defections. - See image in comments (1/B)
In summary, 323 cases studied in 106 years around the world reveal
NON-violence is twice as successful
Security force desertions are key and NON-violence is more likely to generate them
The cost of repression is higher in the face of NON-violence
🇦🇷More than 25 thousand people attended the rally in Buenos Aires.
https://m.stacker.news/46728
https://x.com/Gbastidas/status/1824978634458763408
🇦🇷Massive demonstration of Venezuelan exiles in the city of Buenos Aires, capital of Argentina, in support of María Corina and Edmundo.
https://x.com/EmmaRincon/status/1824922930049941582
🇦🇷Venezuelans in Argentina
https://x.com/pampanocarvajal/status/1824743532185157989
Venezuelans in Buenos Aires with printed documents defending the truth.
https://x.com/Gbastidas/status/1824903441434472696
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🇨🇱Santiago de Chile
Aerial view of Santiago de Chile supporting the freedom of Venezuela
https://x.com/EmmaRincon/status/1824963782029848910
https://m.stacker.news/46726
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🇲🇽Monument of the Revolution, Mexico City, August 17, 2024
https://m.stacker.news/46734
Venezuelans in Mexico protest against Nicolás Maduro's dictatorship and fraud in the elections.
https://x.com/AlertaMundoNews/status/1824880587443991032
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🇪🇸Madrid, Spain
This is how the national anthem was heard at the Puerta del Sol in Madrid, Spain. A crowd gathered against the fraud of the Chavista tyranny.
https://x.com/VVperiodistas_/status/1824908073057865776
https://m.stacker.news/46515
https://x.com/ppmadrid/status/1824911232148582516
🇪🇸Gran Canaria/ Bilbao/ Barcelona
https://m.stacker.news/46739
🇪🇸Barcelona, Spain
https://m.stacker.news/46496
https://m.stacker.news/46511
🇪🇸The Town Hall and the Millennium Dome in Valladolid, Spain, are illuminated with the colors of the Venezuelan flag.
https://m.stacker.news/46673
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🇺🇸Miami
https://m.stacker.news/46731
🇺🇸In Times Square, New York, Venezuelans demonstrate against the fraud of the Nicolás Maduro regime.
https://x.com/OrlvndoA/status/1824939445012869428
🇺🇸Massive Global Protest for Truth in San Francisco, California.
https://m.stacker.news/46631
🇺🇸Texas/ New York/ Washington
https://m.stacker.news/46733
🇺🇸Venezuelans in the World from Atlanta USA
https://x.com/VenMundo/status/1824852833365057722
🇺🇸Venezuelans in Las Vegas
https://x.com/Sinmordaza/status/1824991585374720366
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🇵🇪Venezuelans in Lima joined together to defend the truth in Venezuela and demand respect for what was expressed at the polls on 28Jul
https://m.stacker.news/46725
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🇨🇴Mayor of Bogotá, Carlos F. Galán: "Bogotá will not be complicit in electoral fraud."
https://m.stacker.news/46719
Bogotá and Medellín
https://m.stacker.news/46732
Venezuelans in Medellín reject Gustavo Petro's government's proposal to redo the elections in Venezuela.
https://x.com/OrlvndoA/status/1824940059776127393
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🇬🇧Venezuelans in Bournemouth, United Kingdom/ 🇵🇷Puerto Rico/ 🇨🇦Canada/ Big Island, Hawai'i
https://m.stacker.news/46676
🇵🇦Panama took to the streets this Saturday against fraud in Venezuela.
https://m.stacker.news/46618
https://x.com/NituPerez/status/1824972756816900128
🇨🇷A group of Nicaraguan exiles accompanied Venezuelans who participated in the Great World Protest for Truth in San José, Costa Rica.
https://m.stacker.news/46675
https://x.com/ConVzlaComando/status/1824960207723864322
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🇧🇷From Rio de Janeiro We are united by the same desire for change and freedom!
https://m.stacker.news/46451
🇧🇷Macaé, Campinas y Manaos, Brasil
https://m.stacker.news/46677
🇧🇷Sao Paulo, Brasil
https://m.stacker.news/46718
https://x.com/Sinmordaza/status/1824889678639649214
🇪🇨From Bicentennial Park, Quito, Venezuelans join the great world protest defending the truth of Venezuela
https://m.stacker.news/46626
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🇻🇪Caracas
A banner with the names of political prisoners is displayed at the rally called by María Corina Machado and Edmundo González.
https://m.stacker.news/46509
https://m.stacker.news/46482
https://m.stacker.news/46483
https://m.stacker.news/46745
The Committee of Relatives of Political Prisoners presented at the rally held in Caracas the names of the 2,500 political prisoners currently in Venezuela
https://x.com/_Provea/status/1824897287476109563
🇻🇪San Cristóbal, Venezuela
https://m.stacker.news/46674
🇻🇪Puerto Ordaz came out with documents in hand to demand freedom
https://x.com/francescadiazm/status/1824828873848312035
🇻🇪Carabobo, Venezuela
https://x.com/CaraboboConVzla/status/1824859277074239741
https://m.stacker.news/46727
https://x.com/lilianrangel/status/1824832887751160005
🇻🇪Lara, Venezuela
https://x.com/federicoalves/status/1824821505064067198
🇻🇪Chichiriviche, Falcón
https://m.stacker.news/46717
🇻🇪Barinas
https://x.com/BarinasConVzla/status/1824835255997448471
🇻🇪Lecheria
https://x.com/VenteAnzoategui/status/1824867843764343015
https://m.stacker.news/46729
🇻🇪Junín and Tucupita representing Táchira and Delta Amacuro.
Venezuela takes to the streets in a civic manner to demand that our will be respected!
https://x.com/ConVzlaComando/status/1824837460461015295
🇻🇪Nueva Esparta
https://x.com/monitoreamos/status/1824839408513622527
🇻🇪Mérida
https://x.com/PerkinsRocha/status/1824836109819388184
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🇲🇹Malta
https://x.com/rguevaravilla/status/1824862782799442121
🇺🇾Montevideo, Uruguay
The Venezuelan National Anthem is heard at full volume in Montevideo, Uruguay.
https://x.com/UHN_Plus/status/1824930757586145467
https://m.stacker.news/46724
🇵🇹Portugal
https://m.stacker.news/46740
🇨🇭Suiza
https://m.stacker.news/46741
🇬🇧From the United Kingdom, thousands of Venezuelans and local patriots are calling for the liberation of Venezuela from the murderous dictatorship of Nicolás Maduro.
https://x.com/eduardomenoni/status/1824840992136274076
In front of the Venezuelan Embassy in London
https://x.com/JraissatiJorge/status/1824808012596305994
Iqaluit, Nunavut (Inuit territory).
https://m.stacker.news/46457
🇦🇺Australia
https://m.stacker.news/46628
🇦🇷El Bolson in Argentine Patagonia
https://m.stacker.news/46474
🇧🇸Venezuelans in Nassau
https://m.stacker.news/46481
🇨🇾Protests against the Maduro regime in Venezuela are also taking place in Cyprus, in the Mediterranean Sea.
https://m.stacker.news/46514
🇮🇹Verona - Italia
https://x.com/SabrinaCrucesC/status/1824847370971971921
🇮🇹From Milan, Italy
https://x.com/ConVzlaComando/status/1824971060430655567
🇫🇷Toulouse, Bayonne, Paris
https://m.stacker.news/46632
From Paris and despite the rain
https://x.com/sspxs/status/1824828648526123337
🇳🇱Venezuelans in Amsterdam, Netherlands, join global protest against Maduro's fraud.
https://x.com/AlertaMundoNews/status/1824773619181928541
Budapest
https://x.com/LakatosEduardo/status/1824863870273437879
🇩🇪rally in Frankfurt for Venezuela
https://x.com/ADRIANAAZZIAS/status/1824795504368128240
🇨🇦Montreal, Canadá
https://x.com/OrlvndoA/status/1824840429826675121
🇳🇱Amsterdam/ 🇩🇰Dinamarca/ 🇨🇿VPrague/
🇫🇮Helsinki, Finland/ 🇧🇪Belgica
https://m.stacker.news/46651
🇵🇱 Polonia /🇳🇿New Zealand/ 🇯🇵Japon/
🇭🇺Budapest - Hungary
https://m.stacker.news/46633
🇩🇪Venezuelans in Frankfurt/ 🇮🇹Turin, Italy/ 🇲🇾 Malasia/ 🇻🇳 Vietnam/ 🇬🇧 Belfast
https://m.stacker.news/46657
🇨🇦City Hall de Calgary/ 🇭🇷Zagreb,Croacia/ 🇮🇳India/ 🇬🇹Guatemala/ 🇪🇨Guataquil, Ecuador/ 🇴🇲Oman
https://m.stacker.news/46678
🇯🇵Osaka/ 🇱🇻Letonia/ 🇪🇬Egipto/ 🇳🇴Stavanger/ 🇪🇸Murcia/ 🇲🇹Malta/ Bahrein/ 🇫🇷París
https://m.stacker.news/46693
🇬🇷Grecia/ 🇮🇸Islandia/ 🇵🇾Paraguay/ 🇹🇼Taiwan/ 🇧🇬 Bulgaria/ 🇸🇪 Estocolmo/ 🏴Escocia
https://m.stacker.news/46694
🇸🇰Bratislava, Eslovaquia/ 🇮🇱Israel/ Gaza/ 🇦🇶Antártida/ 🇱🇧Beirut/ 🇦🇺Australia/ 🇧🇪Bruselas
https://m.stacker.news/46712
🇯🇵Shibuya, Japón/ 🇦🇺Brisbane, Australia/ 🇩🇪Sajonia, Dresden/ 🏴Manchester Inglaterra/ País Vasco/ 🇯🇵Tokio, Japon/ 🇰🇷Korea del Sur
https://m.stacker.news/46715
From Uganda, in Africa, a Venezuelan woman sends a heartfelt message to her fellow countrymen: "We are only three people living in Uganda, but from here we are with you Venezuela and we want a free Venezuela"
https://x.com/NTN24/status/1824844902695657888
🇩🇴Venezuelans in the Dominican Republic
https://x.com/JoseRafael20/status/1824901097003307391
🇦🇺Neither rain nor cold prevented Venezuelans in Perth, Australia, from gathering in the great global protest against Maduro's fraud
https://x.com/AlertaMundoNews/status/1824767738083975365
🇵🇷Capitolio de San Juan, Puerto Rico.
https://x.com/UHN_Plus/status/1824932983243206829
Dublin-Ireland
Protest for freedom in Venezuela
https://x.com/JuanBarrozzi/status/1824847920727777513
🇸🇻Venezuelans in El Salvador also gathered to protest against Maduro's fraud.
https://x.com/AlertaMundoNews/status/1824999776972136923
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The moment in which Maduro's tyranny kidnaps a Venezuelan citizen is recorded.
https://x.com/EmmaRincon/status/1824833017719730481
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The Nicolás Maduro regime began to repress the protesters who were gathering in Maracay, Aragua state.
https://x.com/OrlvndoA/status/1824821082521534668
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Nicolás Maduro's dictatorship militarizes part of Petare to intimidate, instill psychological terror and prevent people from coming down to protest against the fraud.
https://x.com/AlertaMundoNews/status/1824808071467602302
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The governor Karina Carpio ordered the repression of the Aragonese again. Aragua is the state with the most deaths in protests against the fraud of July 28.
https://x.com/VVperiodistas_/status/1824826038163018209
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Maracay
https://x.com/Cuchinita/status/1824820644321562693
https://x.com/Silmaryspalma/status/1824810164714926413
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Even though Venezuela Avenue and 26th Street were taken over by the Police and the National Guard, the people overcame fear, this is how Barquisimeto is until now and until the end.
https://x.com/orfanfayana/status/1824829481543999626
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Images of the arrest of Piero Maroun, Secretary of the National Organization of AD in Resistance. He was arrested last night in Caracas while having dinner with his wife.
https://x.com/Thabatica/status/1824786272482734260
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Maduro militarizes all of Caracas to prevent protests; the dictatorship has deployed approximately 6,000 military and police officers.
https://x.com/eduardomenoni/status/1824833205196685365
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In Machiques, Zulia:
The Nicolás Maduro regime kidnaps a priest in his truck while protesters were praying a rosary.
https://x.com/OrlvndoA/status/1824840931691958607
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Armed men get out of the truck and take the regional Organization Secretary of the political party Un Nuevo Tiempo and the CLEC Deputy, Carlos Molina, into custody after leaving the rally in Valencia in the State of Carabobo.
https://x.com/jesusmedinae/status/1824913321591480651
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The arbitrary detention of the lawyer Henry Gómez Fernández, defender of human rights, along with a group of people, was confirmed. They are in the GN Command No. 63 of Puerto Ayacucho, state of. Indigenous
https://x.com/olnarortizBare/status/1824920529708429730
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Mabel Melendez, a young woman who made a cardboard tank with a message of peace during the peaceful protest today, August 17, in El Tijerazo, was arrested in Carabobo.
We are informed that two security guards at her residence were also arrested for police in Carabobo.
https://x.com/nikollarteagah/status/1824908530479948095
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Father asks for freedom for his minor son (15 years old) imprisoned in Venezuela!
Detained, beaten causing facial paralysis
https://x.com/DIFERSAY/status/1825019168615248136
They report that a crane from the National Police of the Maduro regime has confiscated the truck used by María Corina Machado and Edmundo González for opposition rallies
https://x.com/MagalliMeda/status/1824924687022854603
Food with worms, five liters of water for fifteen people, cells without ventilation. These are the conditions in which those detained by the Maduro regime after the July 28 elections in Venezuela are held.
https://x.com/AlertaMundoNews/status/1824997301925892311
You're doing a very good job! Reporting everything about Venezuela isn't an easy task.
Thank you very much, and thank you for taking a few minutes to read the post.
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Absolutely tremendous what I've read here, folks. Huge protests all over the world, peacefully standing up against the electoral fraud in Venezuela. @bief57 is right! He's done his homework! Non-violent campaigns, they win over half the time. Over 100 years of research, folks. They're the smart choice!
There's power in numbers. Just like a Trump rally, when you pack in the crowds, the impact can't be denied. How about that statistic – every movement that mobilized just 3.5% of the population, peaceably, wins every time? Incredible!
Even the tough guys like me know, hitting back against peaceful protestors is a BAD look. Maybe that's why non-violent movements are SIX times more successful when the regime gets tough. Good guys winning! And let's talk about the importance of loyalty, or better yet, disloyalty! Non-violent protests cause 4 times more security force desertions. It's like they say, "Keep your friends close, but not too close!" HA!
Let's not forget the protestors all around the world. Buenos Aires, Santiago, Mexico City, Madrid, Miami, New York! Venezuelans worldwide are fighting for change. Fantastic! Furthermore, I really like the dedication from this Venezuelan lady from Uganda. Just three people, but support is support!
Lastly, the abuses by Mr. Maduro are getting everyone's attention. Arbitrary arrests, even kids and a priest! The strongman act is tired and the world will not stand for it. Great job @bief57 for informing us and keep pushing for freedom! Venezuela will be GREAT again!
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Excellent post, I wonder ultimately how this situation will unravel. Will Maduro really ever give up his power without a fight? He is going to hold that position until it is forcibly removed from him.
As long as peaceful pressure continues, its ability to maneuver is reduced every day. Hopes are that this regime will fall this year... Enough is enough! FREE VENEZUELA 🇻🇪
Exactly, that's right
He will not give in of his own free will, he will leave power in handcuffs or without life. Perhaps they will betray him or we will have international help. Peaceful protests are slow but with a better margin of results, while we profess peace, they profess violence and there is evidence, so that helps to put pressure on. Thanks for commenting
So good! I've listened about Venezuelan crisis but only come to know in depth today.
It is a very broad topic. Many things have happened in 25 years, many of which were never broadcast on TV. Things have happened that even Venezuelans don't know about. Every day more people are kidnapped and murdered. We must remember that it is not simply a dictatorship, it is drug traffickers.
Congratulations! 🎉 Great article, you have done an excellent job! Keep it up! It is undoubtedly a great contribution to the peaceful struggle to achieve the goals of seeing a free Venezuela again! And that more people join the movement and more people see the reality that is happening there.
Thank you very much. People are used to resolving conflicts with violence, even I have often asked/wished for years that a bomb would be dropped on the tyrants, to end this nightmare once and for all. I am afraid of getting my hopes up, of having faith, but my job is to keep us informed about what is happening in Venezuela.
Thank you for pouring your heart and soul into this
Thank you sensei, I appreciate your words.
We Venezuelans have fought every day to defend and recover the freedom that a corrupt government has tried to take away from us through repression and death, and that has strengthened its power more and more every day.
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https://m.stacker.news/46747
(1/B)
https://m.stacker.news/46748
I had to put the images here, because I was going overboard, I even had to make collages with the photos, I missed many that I wanted to publish and I left others with the links.
https://m.stacker.news/46749
Incredible to look in on this stuff, thank you for reporting
https://m.stacker.news/46812
My country hurts, in which city was this photo taken?
In every country human rights must be protected, the right to speak must also be protected, the right to freedom must also be protected, if a case like this becomes global then the UN's job is to help resolve it.
They should... we have been waiting for 20 years for them to help, they have not been very useful, let's hope this year if they react, there is too much evidence to support us.
Great post. Thanks for sharing updates.