Or perhaps the end of the beginning, if you’re a little more pessimistic.
Image is from this Bloomberg article, from which I also gathered some of the information used in the preamble.
While Trump was off in the Middle East in an incompetent attempt to solve a geopolitical and humanitarian crisis, China has been doing something much more productive.
Chinese officials, including Xi Jinping, had a summit with CELAC (a community of 33 Latin American and Caribbean countries). There, he promised investment, various declarations of friendship, and visa-free entry for 30 days for citizens of Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Peru and Uruguay. Lula signed over 30 agreements with China. Colombia is joining the New Development Bank and hopes to gain the money for a 120-kilometer railway connecting the Atlantic and Pacific coasts as an alternative route to the Panama Canal. Even Argentina, ruled by arch-libertarian and arch-dipshit (but I repeat myself) Milei, was uncharacteristically polite with China as he secured a currency swap renewal to shore up their international reserves.
It wouldn’t really be correct to say that Latin America is “siding with China over the US” - leaders in the region will continue to make many deals with America for the foreseeable future, and even Trump’s bizarre economic strongman routine won’t make them break off economic and diplomatic relations. What’s significant here is that despite increasing American pressure for those leaders to break off all ties with China, few appear to be listening - and given that China is perhaps the most important economy on the planet right now, that is a very predictable outcome.
As the current American empire takes actions to try and avoid their doom, those very actions only guarantee it. As Latin America grows ever more interconnected with China and continues to develop, America will grow ever more panicked and demanding, and this feedback loop will - eventually - result in the death of the Monroe Doctrine.
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Israel-Palestine Conflict
Sources on the fighting in Palestine against Israel. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:
UNRWA reports on Israel’s destruction and siege of Gaza and the West Bank.
English-language Palestinian Marxist-Leninist twitter account. Alt here.
English-language twitter account that collates news.
Arab-language twitter account with videos and images of fighting.
English-language (with some Arab retweets) Twitter account based in Lebanon. - Telegram is @IbnRiad.
English-language Palestinian Twitter account which reports on news from the Resistance Axis. - Telegram is @EyesOnSouth.
English-language Twitter account in the same group as the previous two. - Telegram here.
English-language PalestineResist telegram channel.
More telegram channels here for those interested.
Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Sources:
Defense Politics Asia’s youtube channel and their map. Their youtube channel has substantially diminished in quality but the map is still useful.
Moon of Alabama, which tends to have interesting analysis. Avoid the comment section.
Understanding War and the Saker: reactionary sources that have occasional insights on the war.
Alexander Mercouris, who does daily videos on the conflict. While he is a reactionary and surrounds himself with likeminded people, his daily update videos are relatively brainworm-free and good if you don’t want to follow Russian telegram channels to get news. He also co-hosts The Duran, which is more explicitly conservative, racist, sexist, transphobic, anti-communist, etc when guests are invited on, but is just about tolerable when it’s just the two of them if you want a little more analysis.
Simplicius, who publishes on Substack. Like others, his political analysis should be soundly ignored, but his knowledge of weaponry and military strategy is generally quite good.
On the ground: Patrick Lancaster, an independent and very good journalist reporting in the warzone on the separatists’ side.
Unedited videos of Russian/Ukrainian press conferences and speeches.
Pro-Russian Telegram Channels:
Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.
https://t.me/aleksandr_skif ~ DPR’s former Defense Minister and Colonel in the DPR’s forces. Russian language.
https://t.me/Slavyangrad ~ A few different pro-Russian people gather frequent content for this channel (~100 posts per day), some socialist, but all socially reactionary. If you can only tolerate using one Russian telegram channel, I would recommend this one.
https://t.me/s/levigodman ~ Does daily update posts.
https://t.me/patricklancasternewstoday ~ Patrick Lancaster’s telegram channel.
https://t.me/gonzowarr ~ A big Russian commentator.
https://t.me/rybar ~ One of, if not the, biggest Russian telegram channels focussing on the war out there. Actually quite balanced, maybe even pessimistic about Russia. Produces interesting and useful maps.
https://t.me/epoddubny ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/boris_rozhin ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/mod_russia_en ~ Russian Ministry of Defense. Does daily, if rather bland updates on the number of Ukrainians killed, etc. The figures appear to be approximately accurate; if you want, reduce all numbers by 25% as a ‘propaganda tax’, if you don’t believe them. Does not cover everything, for obvious reasons, and virtually never details Russian losses.
https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses ~ Pro-Russian, documents abuses that Ukraine commits.
Pro-Ukraine Telegram Channels:
Almost every Western media outlet.
https://discord.gg/projectowl ~ Pro-Ukrainian OSINT Discord.
https://t.me/ice_inii ~ Alleged Ukrainian account with a rather cynical take on the entire thing.
Funny in this article https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx277jklkyzo about s likely Ukranian assassination in Spain they have to add a bit about a russian assassination at the end
Rep. Gerry Connolly dies at 75
Vaxxed?!
Free Life of Kurdistan (PJAK), an Iran-based armed group widely believed to be an offshoot of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), on Monday said it will continue its armed struggle against Tehran despite PKK’s decision to dissolve itself and end its decades-long armed struggle against Ankara.
“We, as PJAK, will neither lay down arms nor dissolve ourselves,” Amir Karimi, PJAK co-chair, told Aryen TV, a Sweden-based channel affiliated with Iran-based Kurdish political parties.
(Source)
Almost like Kurdish separatist movements are functioning as US proxies. Almost.
i mean if you ignore a large part of the evidence, like the long and continuing history of pro-Kurdish organisations in the west being treated as terrorists, including the British Metropolitan Police raiding a Kurdish community centre a few months ago, then yes, it’s possible to reduce the entire Kurdish nationalist movement, constituting millions of people spread across multiple continents, to “US proxies”
alternatively you could just take a dialectically materialist view and acknowledge that nationalist movements, as with every single political movement in history, are internally contradictory, and of course contains collaborationist elements alongside liberationist elements. Because we’re not reactionaries, and we don’t want to paint entire ethnic/national groups with negative labels as though there’s some collaborationist bone in their brain, right?
i mean like is the point of this to imply that the PKK is a US proxy?
I think you’re completely right and you made a great case why it’s silly to view the kurdish struggle as a controlled us proxy but that’s not what LoveYourself necesserily implied.
LoveYourself mentioned kurdish separatists almost “functioning as a proxy” and I think that checks out, sadly. Obviously not all kurdish groups do it on purpose, I feel for their cause in general and I do think they’re anti-imperialist (just not anti-hegemonic) but their interests often line up against america’s enemies in the region so effectively while furthering their own goals they can at the same time be furthering america’s. But from your second paragraph I’m sure you know that already.
So I think it’s fair to be a bit iffy when this type of stuff happens
Syrian Information Minister Hamza al-Mustafa said the US is not demanding normalization with Israel:
“Normalizing with Israel is not a part of the American requests sent to the Syrian government. Different delegations from the U.S., from Western countries, came to Syria and asked if you can join the Abraham Accords. The [Syrian] governmental response was also clear. The Abraham Accords are between [sic] a state, Israel, that doesn’t occupy their countries”
Hmm sounds too good to be true, could just be the syrian government feigning opposition before normalizing with israel anyways, but it does match with Trump saying he didn’t consult israel before restoring ties with Syria
Ya it doesn’t really match with any of their actions up to now.
Sounds like a lie they will throw at their islamist base
Come on new pope, excommunicate Joe Biden. He needs to be depressed as much as possible to lose against cancer
THOMAS SANKARA MAUSOLEUM UNVEILED IN BURKINA FASO
https://xcancel.com/african_stream/status/1925020553313759581looks cool, but hard to imagine Sankara would have liked this given that he was vehemently against the aggrandisation of politicians and civil servants with public funds.
Then he shouldn’t have been so cool and died a martyr.
Today’s combat footage.
A Russian Iskander-M missile strike eliminated up to 70 Kiev regime troops at a training facility near the Sumy oblast settlement of Shostka: https://news-pravda.com/world/2025/05/20/1349556.html
Russian forces recently destroyed another US-built “Bradley” infantry fighting vehicle along the Kursk/Sumy border: https://odysee.com/@Support4Z:b/📽️-A-🇬🇧-🇫🇷,--The-enemy-in-a-Bradley,-tried-to-break-through-to-Kursk-Tyotkino:5
Plus, a bonus video: Several Odessan women rescued a man from Kiev regime military conscription officers: https://news-pravda.com/world/2025/05/17/1338823.html
first link contains an unexpected F slur
Good catch. Unfortunately, some of these military footage related sites have that as a problem. I’ve replaced it with another link to the same video.
Yeah it’s a big issue, a lot of people in the military and OSINT space just suck.
If Corbyn ever gets into government by some miracle turn around in Britain I sincerely hope he’s feeling vindictive enough to go after every single one of these ghoulish fucks for their part in supporting and defending this genocide. They deserve to rot in prison and he would be in a position to get supreme revenge for what they did to him in the party.
I don’t think he is vindictive enough but holy shit he really should go after them all if that opportunity arises.
They all deserve worse than jail but i’d settle for it. Watching kids starve in real time live with nothing we can do about it is breaking my heart and filling me with a fire for inflicting pain to the ghouls that I can not describe.
Honestly he needs to do a coup, because the institutions of the UK will screw him over, Oh and kick out charles as well, otherwise he might dissolve parliament.
Allowing our politicians to get away with Iraq was such a huge fucking mistake. They need to know fear.
I don’t think he’s got it in him.
I would not be surprised if there’s some fire burning deep down. You can’t go through all that and come out the other side without having something built up.
you mean ol jezza isn’t literally Stalin?
He needs to do a great purge so big it will make stalin look like a lib
You remember how after the end of WW2 there were Israelis hunting Nazis and bringing them to justice via kidnapping and such? Anyway I forget why I brought that up
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i will break fedcobin in half i swear to god:
https://jacobin.com/2025/05/materialism-socialism-democracy-left-wing
like largely, on concrete paragraphs, the article is more good than bad (the author is dodgy in other ways, but not here), yet manages to completely substitute social materialism for economic agents framework in marxism.
We need a term for the peoples that continue to obfuscate and derail marxist theory. Like trying to hide/trick people into becoming socialists. That’s a strategy destined to fail. A city on a hill can not be hidden.
the woke mind virus penetrated academia, and dissociated the left from working class
the french connexion
(when in actuality it was french ephebo-curious cia-assisted clique that substituted marxist popular conception)
and settlers
labor treatlerism is more obvious while incomplete story, as settlerism continuation.
to be more charitable
Agriculture revolution made possible to feed everyone for cheap and employing less than 10% of population, after that workers with inherited homes and 8-hour work weeks were somewhat set to enjoy fruits of empire
asset shenanigans
now working people have to spend 50% of salary not on food, but on lodgings which is a plus, cause land is finite
Your average Twitter Deus vult tradcath will shit themselves to death when they learn about Pope Leo’s maternal ancestry:
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/genealogists-trace-pope-leos-african-ancestry-to-new-orleans-and-haiti/3744882/“I looked into some of the birth certificates, death certificates, census records,” Chicago-based genealogist Tony Burroughs said. “And sure enough, his ancestors were Black—listed as Black at some period.”
Burroughs, who has spent decades researching African American genealogies, said the findings are both fascinating and not uncommon. “I was able to go back to the 1850s, and they were listed as mulattos in 1850, 1860, 1870. Then when you get to 1880, they were listed as white. When you get to 1900, they were listed as Black, and then after that, they were listed as white,” he said.
“While the Pope’s mother was born in 1911 up in Chicago, her six older sisters and her parents were all very much from New Orleans,” Honora said. “Them and their ancestors were fairly consistently listed as colored or mulatto or Black in census documents and in vital records.”
As Trump had a press conference about the “Golden Dome”, the US Military received it’s first radar for the Golden Dome project a few days ago: an upgraded AN/TPY-2 radar with a Gallium Nitride (GaN) front-end. Radars, unlike logical processors in consumer electronics, are one of the areas where GaN is actually highly useful
US takes delivery of first upgraded AN/TPY-2 radar
The new version of AN/TPY-2 has a longer range and can provide targeting coordinates to other missile defense interceptors beyond just the Army’s THAAD batteries, Jon Norman, Raytheon’s vice president for Air and Space Defense Systems Requirements and Capabilities, told Breaking Defense.
“What the TPY-2 does now, with the Gallium Nitride front-end in it, is it can see things twice as far, so we can make that command and control decision a lot earlier on which effector to use, whether it’s an SM series or it’s a Patriot, or it’s a THAAD,” he said.
The radar can be deployed as a standalone, mobile unit rather than being directly wired into a THAAD battery, Norman explained, which positions it as a potential contribution to President Donald Trump’s Golden Dome plan to create a comprehensive missile shield for the US homeland.
Double the range means a 6000km range, and given the inverse square law, much more power and target tracking capabilities at closer ranges, differentiating the target from decoys much sooner.
“If they have anything else falling off, you can discriminate very accurately and say, ‘This is the warhead. This is what we need to shoot. All the other stuff is just junk. It’s like litter on the road, so don’t waste the missile on the junk. Hit the thing that we want to hit,” he said.
The upgraded AN/TPY-2 can now “detect these very, very small targets, and you can detect them at the separation when the booster separates from the warhead,” he said, adding that with the longer range “we can shoot sooner, and we can hit it before it starts maneuvering.”
That last paragraph is what the US Navy was doing to ballistic missiles launched from Yemen towards Israel when they had the opportunity and SM-3s to spare. Early midcourse phase or late boost phase intercepts. A recent Senate meeting revealed that the US had fired “dozens” of SM-3s at missiles from Yemen. I came to this conclusion very early on in the US bombing campaign against Yemen. Now imagine the US doing the same thing, but to hypothetical Chinese or Russian ICBMs that would fly over the Pacific towards the USA… Place a GaN front-end AN/TPY-2 radar in East Asia, and some US Navy missile destroyers armed with SM-3s in the West Pacific, or an AEGIS Ashore facility in Guam, and this is possible with the massive increase in range and power of the upgraded AN/TPY-2.
China and Russia have said as much in a joint statement, that this aspect of the “Golden Dome” undermines deterrence and makes arms control and treaties like the previous INF treaty impossible:
Deeply destabilizing in nature is also the recently announced “Golden (Iron) Dome for America”, a large-scale program designed to establish unconstrained, global, deeply layered and multi-domain missile defense system to protect against any missile threats, including all types of missiles from “peer and near-peer adversaries”. First of all, this means a complete and ultimate rejection to recognize the existence of the inseparable interrelationship between strategic offensive arms and strategic defensive arms, which is one of the central and fundamental principles of maintaining global strategic stability. The project also provides additional impetus to the further development of kinetic and non-kinetic means providing for the left-of-launch defeat of missile weapons and the infrastructure that supports their employment.
I remember Trump talking about building an Iron Dome for the US, for a long time. The earliest mention I see for it is, January 2023.
Yeah he’s been talking about it for a while, but he just had an “official press conference” in the Oval Office (I think) to announce it and the budget, complete with a poster of the "Golden Dome "
that’s about decoys which are different from the warhead though (like thermal/radar, which are used in cruise missiles), isn’t it. which largely is not the case, they usually use exact same decoys as active warheads since like 80s if not before, i believe. b) dunno about russia/china work to that effect, but feasibly ground based laser systems can knock down satellites (at least i’ve seen articles to that effect about orbital trash removal, on the scale of roughly half a year-2 years, via ablation*), and that’s the problematic intercept location, the midocean ones can be dealt with with earlier separation and stuff.
*the evaporation of the surface of the satellite under high power pulsed laser can slow it down a little bit, the theory was you do it enough time each hour it passes, and over months it will start to destabilize in orbit. The laser power and optics required were in the oof territory, but feasible for states.
but obviously that all requires investment, and destroys mutual destruction for a time, so not great.
I think the satellite and space based intercept stuff (Golden pebbles or Star Wars version 2) is more of a typical Trump distraction from the real issue of the US trying to make it’s existing interception technology, in SM-3 interceptors as part of AEGIS Ashore and AEGIS missile destroyer warships, more viable, just how “rare earths” was a Trump distraction from the US taking all of Ukraine’s natural resources. So I’m not focused much on it. It doesn’t even exist yet and it might never exist. Meanwhile, AEGIS and SM-3 does exist, and so does this new upgraded radar.
As for decoys, there are those that aim to replicate the behaviour of warheads. But there is also chaff and smaller decoys, the idea being that you surround the warheads in a cloud of radar reflective material, so the radar can’t track the warhead accurately. Such a strategy will be less effective against more powerful radars like this upgraded AN/TPY-2.
Still, building a better decoy sounds easier than building a better radar.
https://www.404media.co/scientists-explain-why-trumps-175-billion-golden-dome-is-a-fantasy/
The interception, would be in the mid flight phase I guess. With the GaN radar?
That article is focused on space based interception using satellites, a different part of the “golden dome” system, that’s only in the conceptual stage as of now. It doesn’t exist yet. The upgraded GaN front-end AN/TPY-2 radar has been delivered and can be deployed anywhere in the world right now (with more being built) along with missile destroyers US Navy warships armed with SM-3 interceptors, that’s why I chose to post about it. You’d have to get the missile destroyers pretty close, but it could work to blunt an opponent’s attack. The article you posted states:
For a land-, sea-, or air-based interceptor to intercept an ICBM during its boost phase, the interceptor must typically be based within about 500 km of the expected intercept point, have a speed of 5 km/s or more, and be fired less than a minute after the launch of a potentially threatening missile has been detected.
However if you’re prepared to perform some sort of midcourse interception (early in the midcourse phase of flight, also called the assent phase or post boost phase), those numbers become more realistic, you don’t need to be as close. An SM-3 block II has an altitude ceiling of 1000km, a range of 2400km, and a top speed of 4.5km/s. What a radar like the upgraded GaN front-end AN/TPY-2 does is make this kind of early midcourse interception plan more realistic, as you can accurately track the missile much sooner after launch than before. The launch gets detected by satellites, an SM-3 can be fired before the radar starts tracking, and as soon as the radar starts tracking, it can relay the information back. With the upgraded AN/TPY-2, the time between satellite detects launch to radar starts tracking missile is reduced significantly.
Trump giving me golden dome is my fantasy
we can shoot sooner
President Javier Milei has dissolved the Argentine government unit investigating the $LIBRA crypto scam, which he promoted in February.
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Update on the United States Air Force Strategic Bomber Task Force deployments:
2 B-52H Stratofortress strategic bombers have been deployed to Guam in the West Pacific, and a further 2 B-52Hs have been deployed to the European/Mediterranean theatre, currently in Spain. They should be doing flyovers in Eastern Europe soon, Latvia was the previous destination before that got cancelled. While these flyovers appear ceremonial, the bomber crews do use them for training, during the last flyover a B-52 crew carried out a simulated Paveway stand-in laser guided bombing run. A further 2 F-15-E Strike Eagle aircraft have been deployed to Diego Garcia. Although they are not strategic bombers, 1 F-15E can carry 5 JASSM stealth cruise missiles, allowing for a squadron of 4 F-15Es to replicate the role of 1 B-52 (20 JASSMs total). F-15Es can also act as combat air patrol aircraft to protect the island from any surface or aerial threats (boats and UAVs).
There are now a total of 12 United States Air Force Strategic Bombers forward deployed, along with at least 6 F-15Es:
Stationed at Diego Garcia:
- 4x B-52H Stratofortress bombers.
- 6x F-15E Strike Eagle aircraft, equipped with 5 JASSMs in this picture (1 on each wing, 1 on each aft station, and one barely visible on the centerline of the aircraft).
Stationed in the West Pacific:
- 4x B-1B Lancer supersonic swing wing bombers in Japan
- 2x B52-H Stratofortress bombers in Guam
Stationed in Europe:
- 2x B-52H Stratofortress bombers in Spain.
This means that the maximum JASSM conventional cruise missile salvo per sortie from bombers and strike fighters deployed at Diego Garcia is now 110 JASSMs, and the maximum AGM-86 nuclear cruise missile salvo remains at 80 missiles.
The maximum JASSM conventional cruise missile salvo per sortie from bombers deployed in the Western Pacific is 136 missiles. The maximum LRASM (anti ship version of JASSM) remains at 96 missiles, only the B-1 is certified to carry the LRASM. The maximum AGM-86 nuclear cruise missile salvo is 40 missiles, only the B-52 can carry those.
The maximum conventional JASSM, or nuclear AGM-86 salvo, from bombers deployed to Europe is 40 missiles.
I’ll add sources soon, unfortunately I have been banned from twitter again, so it’s difficult.
- 4x B-52H Stratofortress bombers.
Soviet Cars in Cuba: Rolling Relics Still on the Move - Telesur English
Article
On the streets of Cuba, Soviet-era cars continue to play a key role in daily life, decades after the Cold War ended. Models such as the Lada, Moskvich, Volga, Niva, and Zil—mass-imported during the Soviet era—are still a common sight across the island’s cities and towns, becoming true icons of the Cuban urban landscape.
The Lada, in particular, has become one of the most prevalent and functional vehicles, used not only for personal transport but also as taxis, ambulances, and police cars. It is estimated that around 250,000 Ladas are still on the road, a significant number that reflects their durability and adaptability to local conditions.
However, keeping these cars running poses a constant challenge. The shortage of spare parts—exacerbated in part by Western sanctions on Russia—has pushed many Cubans to find creative solutions: from handcrafting replacement parts to adapting engines from other brands such as Toyota. This resourcefulness has extended the lifespan of vehicles that are often more than forty years old.
Beyond their practical use, Soviet cars have also fostered an active automotive culture. In Havana, for example, the Lada Club brings together enthusiasts who share technical knowledge and organize community events.
Despite government efforts to modernize the island’s vehicle fleet, these cars remain essential. Recently, Russia sent 50 Moskvich vehicles to help update Havana’s taxi system, a sign that the automotive connection between the two countries endures.
In Cuba, Soviet cars do more than transport people—they carry a living piece of history and national identity.
It still baffles me how people think streets filled with cars that still work fine after decades are a sign of lower development compared to cars that break apart after five years
Either case results in cars on the streets because that’s a fact of life now. It’s not that Soviet cars are crazy amazing and survived till now (it is physically impossible), it’s that they literally had no choice but to make them work using whatever they had on hand. Obviously, we all know it’s because of the blockade, but blockade any country and find in 15 years that the countrymen will be forced to maintain all the planned-obsolescence shit-cars in the same manner - they’ll be working fine too.
Soviet Era cars having a longer lifespan than the plastic crap that comes out of USAmerican dealerships is a classic. China is slowly filling this gap as well it seems.
There’s still loads of pre-Cuban-revolution American cars in Cuba on the road. Most of them have been repowered with different drivetrains due to parts availability, I’m guessing the Soviet hardware is easier to get parts for.
When Obama opened up Cuba travel restrictions I remember a lot of people getting amped up imagining importing old American car shells on the cheap from Cuba. No idea if anybody ever tried it.
If the opportunity arises again the Cubans should tariff the shit out of them
Article
On Sunday, Venezuelans will elect 24 governors, 285 national legislators and 260 members of the state legislative councils. On Monday, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and senior government officials met at the Miraflores Palace in Caracas to assess new terrorist plans that the transnational far-right is attempting to implement in connection with the upcoming elections.
Previously, Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello had confirmed the capture of 38 mercenaries planning to sabotage the elections. Among them were 17 foreigners. President Maduro took the opportunity to highlight the strength of democracy in Venezuela, a country that has held 31 previous elections since the Bolivarian Revolution arrived 26 years ago. He also criticized the international media for systematically hiding the upcoming elections in the South American country.
“The Albanian mafia that rules Ecuador sent some of its mercenaries to plant bombs in Venezuela. They have been captured,” he said, linking the regional terrorist activities to the presence of Erik Prince, the founder of the private military group Blackwater.
The meeting, held in the Simon Bolivar Hall, was also attended by Vice President Delcy Rodriguez and Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino Lopez, among other representatives of the security forces.
“This team guarantees the victory of peace and security. We must protect our people’s constitutional rights to peace, stability, and tranquility,” Maduro said, referring to the elections to be held on May 25.
During the Miraflores Palace meeting, Maduro ordered the strengthening of protections for the national electrical system to prevent attacks similar to those that occurred before and during July 28, 2024, when the U.S.-backed opposition managed to cut off electricity for several days.
The Bolivarian leader assured that his administration is prepared to confront any attempt at sabotage and guarantee the peace of the population. He also called on the justice system to punish those responsible for the previous sabotage attacks.
On May 25, millions of Venezuelans will head to the polls to elect 24 governors, 285 national deputies and 260 members of the state legislative councils across the country.
The Bolivarian leader revealed private conversations with Latin American leaders who suggested suspending the elections due to US economic sanctions. However, he categorically rejected this position.
“No one can take away the people’s right to participate, elect, and have their authorities,” Maduro affirmed, reiterating that Venezuela will continue to hold elections regardless of external pressure.
“Vote yes, violence no! Vote yes, bullets no!” the Venezuelan president said during an exhortation to the population to turn out en masse for Sunday’s elections.
“May 25th will be a day of peace, stability, happiness, and participation,” he said, emphasizing that the electoral process will proceed normally thanks to the coordination between popular forces, the military, and the police.
