Venezuela's CNE electoral board ruled in
the early hours of Wednesday that Maduro regime candidate Justo Noguera is the
new governor of gold-rich Bolivar state in Eastern Venezuela, as opposition
candidate Andres Velasquez continues heading protests against that result. But
even before the CNE changed their results page around midnight, Venezuela
President Nicolas Maduro had proclaimed that he had won the Bolivar state
governorship 10 hours earlier in a press conference. And just who is Justo Jose
Noguera Pietri? In 2014, as commander of
the National Guard he headed the violent repression of demonstrations in 2014,
during which 43 demonstrators and security forces were killed. Months after the
demonstrations ended, the US sanctioned him a Specially Designated National. More…
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