Operation Tun Tun

By: Luis Gonzales Posada - 10/10/2024

Diosdado Cabello, the number two in the Venezuelan regime, is a sinister character who controls the Police, the Bolivarian Intelligence Service and the Armed Forces.

With the rank of lieutenant, he assisted Commander Chávez in the failed coup against President Carlos Andrés Pérez, for which he was imprisoned for two years and was later pardoned by the Christian Social leader Rafael Caldera, which thus benefited all the coup plotters, paving the way for them to power.

During the Chávez regime (1999-2013), Cabello was director of the National Telecommunications Commission, Minister of the Presidency, Minister of Infrastructure and Vice President of the Republic.

Later, he held the positions of Minister of the Interior and Public Works, Governor of Miranda State and President of the National Constituent Assembly.

And two weeks ago, Maduro appointed him Minister of the Interior again.

We refer to this grim character because he is the one who promotes the so-called “Operation Tun Tun”, launched after the elections of July 28.

The Argentine newspaper Clarín explains that this name refers to “the sound of a door being knocked on, causing panic among the residents,” adding that “it is a method of repression that consists of breaking down the doors of opponents to take them to prison, without a court order. This generated a generalized climate of terror in the population, according to the experts of the UN Determination Mission that investigates massive violations of human rights.”

Likewise, Clarín reports that “after the night of July 28, in almost all of Venezuela groups of opponents spontaneously went out to demonstrate against the official results that declared Nicolás Maduro the winner for the 2025-3031 period. Most of them left from the shantytowns of the big cities, former bastions of Chavismo (among them, the 23 de enero neighborhood), where those most affected by the long economic crisis live. Some protests ended in clashes with the police, who repressed them with blood and fire. 25 people were killed by bullets in the streets, including a soldier. There were dozens of wounded and hundreds of detainees. There was also the legacy of fear and state terrorism that takes hold of opponents, anonymous or well-known.”

One of the sectors affected by this repressive modality are the so-called “comanditos”, made up of 60 thousand young people organized by the leader María Corina Machado, who fulfilled the mission of being present before, during and after the elections, withdrawing a copy of the minutes of the voting tables to deliver them to a central collection center and publish them on a website after having digitalized 83.5% of the result.

Thus, at the end of the day, the democratic platform was able to announce that the dictator Maduro had lost the elections. The pompously named National Electoral Council did not dare (nor does it dare) to show the minutes because, if it did, they would be compared with the documents filed by the "comanditos" and the colossal fraud they committed would be proven, repudiated by the international community, with the exception of their political allies: Cuba, Nicaragua, Mexico, Bolivia, Russia, China, Iran and North Korea.

In this murky context, members of the Bolivarian Intelligence Service (Sebin) went to the homes of the "comanditos" to mark the facade of their houses with a black X, applying a method similar to that used by the Nazi Gestapo to identify Jewish families, who were then murdered or transferred to concentration camps.

Despite complaints from prosecutors at the International Criminal Court, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the OAS, the European Union and the Carter Center, Maduro persists in declaring himself the winner, and anyone who does not accept his position is persecuted or arrested.

To stay in power, he relies on a repressive machinery, led by Diosdado Cabello, who is prevented from entering Western countries and who is accused by the New York Court of leading the drug trafficking gang El Cartel de los Soles and the DEA is offering a reward of 10 million dollars for his capture.

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