Fraude y represión: cómo el chavismo cerró definitivamente el ciclo electoral en Venezuela
Un nuevo informe de Transparencia Venezuela (en el exilio) documenta con precisión cómo el régimen de Nicolás Maduro utilizó el ciclo electoral 2024–2025 no como un mecanismo de participación democrática, sino como una herramienta para consolidar un modelo autoritario basado en fraude, opacidad y represión sistemática.
TL;DR
- The Maduro regime used the 2024-2025 electoral cycle as a tool to consolidate an authoritarian model based on fraud, opacity, and systematic repression.
- The report concludes that this period marks the definitive closure of the electoral cycle as a real path for political alternation in Venezuela.
- Subsequent elections reproduced and deepened state control patterns, including lack of technical guarantees, statistical manipulation, and political restrictions.
- Real voter participation in the July 2025 municipal elections was reportedly only 29%, significantly lower than official figures, due to sustained demobilization caused by fraud and repression.
- The "active voter" concept, an unregulated term, was used by the CNE to artificially inflate participation percentages.
- The ruling party officially won 285 out of 335 mayoralties, 23 out of 24 governorships, and 256 out of 285 National Assembly seats.
- Human rights organizations documented a sustained increase in arbitrary detentions, brief forced disappearances, and judicial persecution of activists and citizens linked to opposition structures between August and November 2025.
- The report notes a shift in repressive strategy from prolonged preventive detention to severe criminal sentences, often based on vague accusations.
- Practices such as punishment by kinship and systematic use of forced disappearance for political intimidation have been consolidated.
- At least 17 to 25 political prisoners have died in state custody since 2014, with detention centers described as having inhumane conditions.
- The report concludes that Venezuela is in a phase of authoritarian consolidation where voting is no longer a mechanism of citizen control, justice is an instrument of persecution, and repression is permanent.