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The ironies of the Venezuelan opposition, part 18<http://www.sabinabecker.com/2013/04/the-ironies-of-the-venezuelan-opposition-part-18.html>April 16, 2013 Sabina Becker [image: rctv-fraud-twitpic] *Photo tweeted by opposition TV channel RCTV, showing supposed incineration of Sundays election materials. Only its not from Sunday * Hidey-ho, good readers! And welcome to *another* chapter of VenOpIronía, in which everything old is suddenly new again. And in which black is white, day is night, wrong is right, and truth is shite. And in which someone is committing a fraud in order to accuse somebody else of committing a fraud. Heres the story: <http://www.aporrea.org/actualidad/n226929.html> *From Web pages such as La Patilla, and from Twitter and Facebook accounts from such communication media as RCTV, members of the opposition are divulging photos of the destruction of electoral materials, dating to August 21, 2012, and September 19, 2010, but presented as if they had been taken today. This intensified after Wilmer Azuaje, ex-deputy from Barinas, tweeted some photos <https://twitter.com/AZUAJE_WILMER/status/323783981793427456> of supposed electoral materials<https://twitter.com/AZUAJE_WILMER/status/323782821481181185> found today along a public roadway in Barinas.* * La Patilla published the photos,<http://www.lapatilla.com/site/2013/04/15/encontraron-papeletas-de-votacion-en-la-troncal-5-en-barinas-fotos/> showing that the ballot papers, strangely, hadnt been folded. >From that moment on, social network users of the opposition began spreading, via Facebook and Twitter, numerous photos of electoral materials being incinerated. But information specialist Feijoo Jiménez and other Twitter users showed us that the images tweeted come from the CNE [National Electoral Council of Venezuela] web page<http://www.cne.gob.ve/web/sala_prensa/fotos_detalladas.php?g=31> and from media revealing that the dates of the burnings had been from 2010 and 2012. This is the CNE photo gallery in which the 2010 event appears.<http://www.cne.gob.ve/web/sala_prensa/fotos_detalladas.php?g=31> The same event was published by such different media as the opposition newspaper El Universal<http://www.eluniversal.com/2010/09/18/pol_ava_cne-incinero-materia_18A4487571.shtml>, and the Chavista paper, CiudadCCS. <http://www.ciudadccs.info/?p=105907> The item from El Universal, dating to September 18, appears here.<http://www.eluniversal.com/2010/09/18/pol_ava_cne-incinero-materia_18A4487571.shtml> * *We believe that the publication of false photos is being used by radical sectors of the opposition to whip up their supporters, convince them of a supposed fraud with the votes, and to follow the line dictated by the anti-Chavista candidate, Henrique Capriles Radonski, who is calling on his followers to gather on Tuesday and Wednesday at the CNE offices to demand a recount of the votes. In a press conference on Monday, Capriles assured that there had indeed been destruction of electoral materials. We cant lose the materials. Our desires is that tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, or today, this conflict will be resolved, he said.* Translation mine. Links as in original. Dont be too surprised if the ones from La Patilla, El Universal or Wilmer Azuajes tweeter go dead quickly; since the fraud has now been found out, its only a matter of time before the perpetrators try to cover their naked butts. Luckily, Aporrea included some screen-grabs of their handiwork: [image: el-universal-incineration] *El Universal* web page from 2010, showing old ballot boxes being incinerated. This is common, official, post-electoral practice, as you can see in these individual shots: [image: soldier-incinerating-votes] A soldier pours gasoline on old ballot boxes in bags, which are about to be incinerated. If this were a case of furtive destruction of incriminating materials, why would he be doing it by day, and in uniform? [image: firefighter-overseeing-incineration] A firefighter oversees the incineration. Again, note that its broad daylight, and hes in full uniform, making no effort to hide what he is doing. Would he be doing this if it were a fraud? [image: la-patilla-unfolded-ballots] *La Patilla* photo of supposed electoral material by a roadside, showing ballots not folded as they would have been had they been cast as actual votes. Folding ballots before casting them is common practice in Venezuela, as it is here in Canada. No word on what a box of unfolded ballots is doing by the roadside where it just *happened* to be stumbled on by a rabid anti-Chavista! And finally, theres this: [image: cne-gallery] A screenshot of the CNE official page, showing thumbnails of the shots of the soldier and the firefighter doing their jobs during a routine incineration at a previous event. Could the RCTV twitpic have come from a gallery like this? Wouldnt surprise me if it had. RCTV is well known for falsifying things in order to paint a dire picture of Bolivarian Venezuela Look, oppos, I can understand the losing side in any close race wanting a recount. Im for it in this case myself<http://www.sabinabecker.com/2013/04/the-ironies-of-the-venezuelan-opposition-part-17.html>, if only to prove that Nicolás Maduro didnt win by as narrow a margin as is currently claimed (remember, he had a huge lead.<http://www.sabinabecker.com/2013/03/whos-yer-president-baby.html>) But if this is the way youre gonna go about it, youre only setting yourselves up for another big failure. Youre already looking not only like fascists, but like fools. <http://venezuelanalysis.com/news/8652> Go the official route and make the demand legally, or STFU. 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