There are some from the PNC – well about a dozen of them anyway! – who’s jumping up and down every day in front of the GECOM HQ demanding “a clean voters’ list and “biometrics”. This, they insist would stop rigging – which they swear was committed by the PPP!! The government should pipe in a feed from the trial of the PNC riggers going on down the street so these worthies in the sun might learn that their demands had nothing to do with them losing the last elections. Didn’t the same voters list – WITHOUT biometrics – had the PPP drawn in 2011 and lose in 2015 to the PNC? Why didn’t the PPP manipulate these variables then – when in office – but couldn’t do so when they were out!! Folks really gotta pick sense from nonsense!!
Well over in Venezuela, they don’t just have an undisputed voters list and biometrics – they used electronic voting machines in their just concluded elections!! And yet most of South and Central America’s leaders think that Mad Maduro just rigged the Venezuelan elections!! As your Eyewitness had explained earlier, the Chavez/Maduro regimes are imitating the Burnhamite dictatorship in sooo many ways – including rigging elections!! The Burnhamite’s motto on the latter was “where’s the will, there’s always gonna be a way”!! Especially when you have the loyalty of those in charge of the system!!
So whereas in 2020, the PNC miscreants in the GECOM Secretariat messed around with the SOPs from the individual polling stations – which still haven’t been released by them – to rig, Mad Maduro’s minions in their Elections Council (CNE) have likewise refused to release the electronic versions from the 30,000 voting machines! Following Lowenfield, the head of CNE merely issued a lump figure and asserted that Mad Maduro whooped the Opposition 51% to 44%!! In the meantime, the Opposition is showing their electronic SOP-equivalents to show that THEIR candidate got 70% of the votes!! Which is more in line with some earlier polls taken!!
Protests have broken out all over Caracas and some other cities in protest against Mad Maduro’s rigging! Not so coincidentally, the elections were held on Chavez’ birthday – and Mad Maduro celebrated his “victory” in the evening by cutting a cake for his mentor!! At least THREE statues of Chavez have been toppled by the protestors. The army has remained loyal to Mad Maduro because he’s taken care of them – even as the country and economy imploded while inflation rose to the skies. Almost every Venezuelan has relatives who’re part of the one-quarter of the population who have fled the living horrors created by the madman!! They want them to return!
We should expect Mad Maduro might create a diversion with Essequibo!
…for Emancipation soirees
One of the features of the Emancipation commemorations your Eyewitness has enjoyed over the years has been the “soirees” in the African-dominated villages on the eve before Emancipation Day. Which is tonight!! It’s interesting that even though the French ruled us for just a decade in total they left us with their evening party called “soiree” – just like with the carnival in Trinidad! There would be drumming, chanting, and Shanto dancing used to invoke the spirits of the African ancestors.
Just before midnight, everyone would move near the canal that led to a nearby Koker for the libation ceremony that would be sure to bring the ancestors into their midst!! The sport would last till dawn – but would seamlessly merge into the Emancipation Day activities.
Sadly, this year there’s been a storm in a teacup created because the government decided that the celebrations should be broadened and has assisted any group that wanted to participate in soirees etc!!
And here your Eyewitness thought the more the merrier!!
…for Caricom
Guyana has been one of the most faithful supporters of Caricom since Burnham helped launch it in 1973. So imagine St Vincent PM Ralph Gonsalves congratulating Mad Maduro on his victory!! On Maduro’s say-so!!
The mouth is muzzled…
