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The 2024 Venezuelan protests was a series of pro-democracy protests that occurred in Venezuela in response to the socialist dictator Nicolas Maduro's fraudulent victory in the 2024 presidential election.

Ahead of the 28 July 2024 presidential election, the Bolivarian dictator Nicolas Maduro oversaw the disqualification of several leading opposition leaders, including the leading opposition candidate Maria Corina Machado. Her successor as the Unitary Platform's candidate, Edmundo Gonzalez, won the election in a landslide at various polling centers, but the government-controlled National Electoral Council falsified the results and claimed that Maduro had won a narrow victory before providing tabulated results, causing the Carter Center, the Organization of American States, and the United Nations to decry the election rigging. Protests broke out across the country as Maduro detained opposition figures and refused to relinquish power. Maduro accused the opposition of encouraging a coup and charged demonstrators with terrorism, initiating an unprecedented crackdown and sending security forces door-to-door to arrest protesters, poll workers, and opposition members in Operation Tun Tun. Members of the pro-government Colectivos paramilitary groups aided in the repression of dissent, and, by 14 August 2024, at least 2,200 people were arrested and 25 killed. On 15 August, Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Colombian president Gustavo Petro, and US president Joe Biden called for new elections in Venezuela.

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