Trump reveals plan used for years to disrupt elections in Venezuela
Declassified CIA documents expose Hugo Chávez and Nicolás Maduro, former Venezuelan presidents, for manipulating elections in Venezuela
President Donald Trump unveiled an alleged plan used for years to alter the results of the elections in Venezuela, closing the way for democracy.
During a speech broadcast from the White House, the 80-year-old Republican referred to how some declassified documents from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) exposed Hugo Chávez and Nicolás Maduro, former Venezuelan presidents, as orchestrators of a stratagem launched with the aim of electronically manipulating the results of the electoral elections held between 2004 and 2020.
“There was a specific plot to greatly favor the corrupt Venezuelan regime,” he said.
To substantiate this statement, the New York magnate relied on documents recently published by the White House, which were analyzed in detail by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), as they address two decades of history.
With all this material, on June 29, a report was prepared that weeks later was delivered to the White House with the aim of imposing a possible sanction on Nicolás Maduro since Hugo Chávez has been dead for more than 13 years.
Both politicians proved skilled at getting the most out of electronic voting machine technology.
Despite this, the report's conclusions emphasize that there is no definitive evidence pointing to large-scale electronic fraud.
Another of the established conclusions is that neither the Venezuelan government nor the electoral results automation system Smartmatic, a British company, were able to develop the capacity to alter elections outside of Venezuela or in the United States.
It is striking that the aforementioned company has stopped working for the Venezuelan authorities since 2018, when it reported that the government of Nicolás Maduro had altered electoral participation with the help of more than a million votes.
Currently, the former Venezuelan president is detained in New York and, although it had been assured that democracy would soon return to the Bolivarian Republic, there is no indication that this will happen soon.

