{{Library work|title=Preface: The Soviet economy is socialist or...?|image=Potapenkov's soviet economy cover.jpeg|author=Ivan Mikhailovich Potapenkov|written in=|translated by=Anastasia S.|original language=Russian|published_date=July 13, 2023|type=Essay|source=https://telegra.ph/Ivan-Potapenkov-Preface-The-Soviet-economy-is-socialist-or-06-30}}<blockquote>''This publication launches the translation of a series of essays on the Soviet economy written by Ivan Mikhailovich Potapenkov, a political economist who has been researching the subject for more than 20 years.''
''The originals of these essays were published in Russian, yet their theoretical significance for the entire international Communist movement is determined by the fact that they show for the first time the general laws of motion of the Soviet commodity-planned mode of production.''

''These essays reveal the objective contradictions of the Soviet economy, providing a materialist explanation of all its crises and paradoxes, and showing the basis that led to Perestroika and the restoration of capitalism.''</blockquote>Many books have been written about the Soviet past, and the reasons for the demise of Soviet society still preoccupy people's minds, for the very demise of this society was unexpected even for Western Sovietologists.
When searching for the causes of the downfall of the Soviet Union, most people focus on finding the answer to the question of under which General Secretary there was a departure from Marxism. This approach is facilitated by the fact that the initial activities of each General Secretary began with new reforms. With each new General Secretary, a new "socialism" was built. Therefore, the entire Soviet history has turned into the history of the General Secretaries.

But as for me, I couldn't care less who was the General Secretary in any particular historical period, although I do mention their names in my writings. I'm not interested in who said and did what. I am only interested in WHY exactly a particular representative said and did it.

My research on the Soviet economy has led me to the following conclusions. As is well known, communist relations of production cannot arise in the depths of capitalism, for their formation requires a systematic organization of production on a society-wide scale, which is hindered by private property. Therefore, the formation of the communist mode of production begins with the conquest of political domination by the proletariat in order to use the power of the state to eliminate private property and unite all the means of production into a single state-owned property.

Having eliminated private property, society will proceed to the conscious formation of communist relations of production, which implies an increasing role of the subjective factor. It is quite clear that history is made by people, but that does not mean they make it based on their whims and fantasies. On the one hand, people create history, but on the other hand, they have to create history in certain historical conditions inherited from previous generations and their own previous activities. What kind of relations of production will be formed has to be determined not by what people want to achieve, but rather by the existing level of development of the productive forces and the structure of classes at the time of their formation.

The insufficient level of development of the productive forces was the reason for the unfavorable structure of classes, which lead to the need to preserve certain forms from the preceding bourgeois mode of production. In such a case, the proletariat, under the leadership of its vanguard, the Party, on the basis of the general laws of social development, began to form communist relations of production, for which the conditions were not yet fully formed. The creation of new relations of production in the communist mode of production also creates the forms through which they are put into practice. But due to the fact that the forms inherent in the old relations of production still remained, the newly emerging forms were affected by them. As a result, there was a form that combined both the new and the old. Such a form in itself possessed opposites, which later turned into contradictions.

The relations of production that emerged gave rise to a new social structure of society in which different classes played different roles in social production. The new classes were united in their desire to build a socialist society. But since the form (in which the relations between the classes are manifested) possessed opposites, these opposites found their expression in the contradiction of the interests of the different classes under a false external unity. It was inevitable, then, that there would emerge a class that was interested in preserving the established relations of production and the form of their manifestation.

Eventually, these contradictions escalated into conflict. The participants of social production realized that it was impossible to develop further in this direction, and that the existing relations of production were hindering the development of the productive forces of society.

Life itself demands the comprehension of the existing contradictions and objective laws of the development of social production. And thus, in the early 1980s, after the death of Leonid Brezhnev, the fact that we do not know the society in which we live in was openly admitted. And without understanding the cause-and-effect relationships inherent in the Soviet economy, it is impossible to predict what direction to move forward in. In this scenario, the search for the resolution of contradictions was based on the way they were resolved in the bourgeois world. The attempt to resolve the existing contradictions using market methods led to the restoration of capitalism.

The Soviet Union is dead, yet supporters of socialism nowadays prefer to stick to the old saying: "Of the dead nothing but good is to be said." However, for the sake of future generations, who will face the challenge of becoming the new builders of communist society, the Soviet past must be dissected in the most ruthless manner, all the boils of the Soviet economy must be opened, and such things are usually unflattering. For if we are Communists, we have only one right - we must tell the truth, no matter how harsh it may be; there is no point in being afraid of what the liberal milieu will think of us. Let them say whatever they please, we will simply follow our own path.

The proposed essays do not portray the Soviet economy through rose-colored glasses. I therefore wish to avoid some misunderstandings beforehand. I have nothing against any particular Soviet leader, whether he was a member of the Central Committee of the Party or the Politburo, or a minister, or a representative of the State Planning Committee, or a simple factory director. For me, they are just faces in which economic categories are personified. In my view, the development of Soviet society is a natural-historical process, so no individual person can be held responsible for everything that took place in Soviet society. People acted upon whatever conditions dictated to them.

After giving lectures on the Soviet economy, people ask a lot of questions, but among them the most common are:

1) How, under such a flawed economic system, were we able to accomplish so much, transforming backward Russia into an industrially developed Soviet Union?

2) Were the economic problems due to sabotage?

The answer to the first question is simple. No one diminishes the achievements of the Soviet Union, and I am proud to have lived and worked in that country. Despite all the flaws, we have really achieved a lot, but, as an aircraft designer and economist Oleg Antonov rightly noted back in the 60s, how many more peaks we could conquer, if it were not for the existing shortcomings in economic practice. Today we can add to this: not only would we have reached new heights, we would not find ourselves today at a broken trough, trying to solve the problem of how to start building socialism again.

The answer to the second question is not so simple; each class of Soviet society had its own logic and if you start accusing someone of being a pest, you will have to accuse everyone. In the essays I have tried to show by virtue of what objective circumstances certain deeds of people were done. At the same time, I ask you to take into account in advance that the Soviet economy is full of absurdities and paradoxes, which sometimes seem irrational and contrary to common sense.

In our society, we are all looking for an answer to Herzen's question, "who is to blame?". It is not necessary to look for who is an apostate from Marxism, and there is no need to look for what has departed from Marx's theory in the cause of building socialism. The question, "who and what is to blame?" is rhetorical. The whole course of Soviet history is in accordance with the laws of Marx's theory. Marxism is the theory of the general laws of the development of society. But it also includes a specific theory of the development of capitalist society and the creation of a future society as a way of resolving the contradictions of capitalism. Everything that was done in Soviet history was done in accordance with the general theory of the development of society. And what was not done regarding the theory of the objective laws of communist society development, there were simply no conditions for that. At first, everything was determined by the level of development of productive forces, then by the established relations of production. Liberals of all sorts claim that the demise of Soviet society proved the utopianism of Marxism. In fact, on the contrary, Soviet history has proven Marxism to be right.

Back in the discussions of the 50s and 60s, Evald Ilyenkov wrote a letter to economists in which he expressed an interesting thought. He argued that many economists knew Marx's "Das Kapital" almost by heart, but none of them had been able to study the Soviet economy itself on the basis of their knowledge of "Das Kapital". The whole misfortune of Soviet science was that economists sought to apply "Das Kapital" by simply quoting individual fragments of the text. Typically, quotations were and still are used to prove a certain point of view. Some prove their opinion by relying on some quotes, their opponents use other quotes to refute the former and prove a different view of the issue. All of them are swinging quotes from the classics around as if they were sabers. To conclude Soviet reality from Marx's quotations without a real awareness of Soviet practice is simply a rejection of a materialist understanding of historical processes.

I have attempted to use the following method given in "Das Kapital". Initially, the simplest form of the plan is derived, which, like a commodity for the capitalist economy, is a cell of the Soviet economy. The simplest formula for a plan is expressed by the following equation:

'''X rubles = Y commodity A'''

('''X''' being the amount of rubles and '''Y''' the real quantity of commodity of a certain quality '''A''').

This is a comparison of the planned target in monetary terms with the created value of the produced commodity. In this very cell lay all the contradictions of the Soviet economy. The further narration shows the progression of the contradictions embedded in the plan. Quotation is also used, though not as an argument for proof, but rather as an illustration of what is being said.

This research aims to provide a different, distinct vision of the causes for the failure of socialism in the USSR, based on the internal contradictions of Soviet planning. The paper will take the form of short essays set out in a certain logical sequence. The essays will be posted as they are written. And one more quick note. In these abstracts posted online I do not footnote the literature used. But these essays will be the basis for the printed edition, in which all necessary references and sources will be made.

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{{Library work|title=Preface: The Soviet economy is socialist or...?|image=Potapenkov's soviet economy cover.jpeg|author=Ivan Potapenkov|written in=July 13, 2023|translated by=Anastasia S.|original language=Russian|type=Essay|source=https://telegra.ph/Ivan-Potapenkov-Preface-The-Soviet-economy-is-socialist-or-06-30}}<blockquote>''This publication launches the translation of a series of essays on the Soviet economy written by Ivan Mikhailovich Potapenkov, a political economist who has been researching the subject for more than 20 years.''
''The originals of these essays were published in Russian, yet their theoretical significance for the entire international Communist movement is determined by the fact that they show for the first time the general laws of motion of the Soviet commodity-planned mode of production.''

''These essays reveal the objective contradictions of the Soviet economy, providing a materialist explanation of all its crises and paradoxes, and showing the basis that led to Perestroika and the restoration of capitalism.''</blockquote>Many books have been written about the Soviet past, and the reasons for the demise of Soviet society still preoccupy people's minds, for the very demise of this society was unexpected even for Western Sovietologists.
When searching for the causes of the downfall of the Soviet Union, most people focus on finding the answer to the question of under which General Secretary there was a departure from Marxism. This approach is facilitated by the fact that the initial activities of each General Secretary began with new reforms. With each new General Secretary, a new "socialism" was built. Therefore, the entire Soviet history has turned into the history of the General Secretaries.

But as for me, I couldn't care less who was the General Secretary in any particular historical period, although I do mention their names in my writings. I'm not interested in who said and did what. I am only interested in WHY exactly a particular representative said and did it.

My research on the Soviet economy has led me to the following conclusions. As is well known, communist relations of production cannot arise in the depths of capitalism, for their formation requires a systematic organization of production on a society-wide scale, which is hindered by private property. Therefore, the formation of the communist mode of production begins with the conquest of political domination by the proletariat in order to use the power of the state to eliminate private property and unite all the means of production into a single state-owned property.

Having eliminated private property, society will proceed to the conscious formation of communist relations of production, which implies an increasing role of the subjective factor. It is quite clear that history is made by people, but that does not mean they make it based on their whims and fantasies. On the one hand, people create history, but on the other hand, they have to create history in certain historical conditions inherited from previous generations and their own previous activities. What kind of relations of production will be formed has to be determined not by what people want to achieve, but rather by the existing level of development of the productive forces and the structure of classes at the time of their formation.

The insufficient level of development of the productive forces was the reason for the unfavorable structure of classes, which lead to the need to preserve certain forms from the preceding bourgeois mode of production. In such a case, the proletariat, under the leadership of its vanguard, the Party, on the basis of the general laws of social development, began to form communist relations of production, for which the conditions were not yet fully formed. The creation of new relations of production in the communist mode of production also creates the forms through which they are put into practice. But due to the fact that the forms inherent in the old relations of production still remained, the newly emerging forms were affected by them. As a result, there was a form that combined both the new and the old. Such a form in itself possessed opposites, which later turned into contradictions.

The relations of production that emerged gave rise to a new social structure of society in which different classes played different roles in social production. The new classes were united in their desire to build a socialist society. But since the form (in which the relations between the classes are manifested) possessed opposites, these opposites found their expression in the contradiction of the interests of the different classes under a false external unity. It was inevitable, then, that there would emerge a class that was interested in preserving the established relations of production and the form of their manifestation.

Eventually, these contradictions escalated into conflict. The participants of social production realized that it was impossible to develop further in this direction, and that the existing relations of production were hindering the development of the productive forces of society.

Life itself demands the comprehension of the existing contradictions and objective laws of the development of social production. And thus, in the early 1980s, after the death of Leonid Brezhnev, the fact that we do not know the society in which we live in was openly admitted. And without understanding the cause-and-effect relationships inherent in the Soviet economy, it is impossible to predict what direction to move forward in. In this scenario, the search for the resolution of contradictions was based on the way they were resolved in the bourgeois world. The attempt to resolve the existing contradictions using market methods led to the restoration of capitalism.

The Soviet Union is dead, yet supporters of socialism nowadays prefer to stick to the old saying: "Of the dead nothing but good is to be said." However, for the sake of future generations, who will face the challenge of becoming the new builders of communist society, the Soviet past must be dissected in the most ruthless manner, all the boils of the Soviet economy must be opened, and such things are usually unflattering. For if we are Communists, we have only one right - we must tell the truth, no matter how harsh it may be; there is no point in being afraid of what the liberal milieu will think of us. Let them say whatever they please, we will simply follow our own path.

The proposed essays do not portray the Soviet economy through rose-colored glasses. I therefore wish to avoid some misunderstandings beforehand. I have nothing against any particular Soviet leader, whether he was a member of the Central Committee of the Party or the Politburo, or a minister, or a representative of the State Planning Committee, or a simple factory director. For me, they are just faces in which economic categories are personified. In my view, the development of Soviet society is a natural-historical process, so no individual person can be held responsible for everything that took place in Soviet society. People acted upon whatever conditions dictated to them.

After giving lectures on the Soviet economy, people ask a lot of questions, but among them the most common are:

1) How, under such a flawed economic system, were we able to accomplish so much, transforming backward Russia into an industrially developed Soviet Union?

2) Were the economic problems due to sabotage?

The answer to the first question is simple. No one diminishes the achievements of the Soviet Union, and I am proud to have lived and worked in that country. Despite all the flaws, we have really achieved a lot, but, as an aircraft designer and economist Oleg Antonov rightly noted back in the 60s, how many more peaks we could conquer, if it were not for the existing shortcomings in economic practice. Today we can add to this: not only would we have reached new heights, we would not find ourselves today at a broken trough, trying to solve the problem of how to start building socialism again.

The answer to the second question is not so simple; each class of Soviet society had its own logic and if you start accusing someone of being a pest, you will have to accuse everyone. In the essays I have tried to show by virtue of what objective circumstances certain deeds of people were done. At the same time, I ask you to take into account in advance that the Soviet economy is full of absurdities and paradoxes, which sometimes seem irrational and contrary to common sense.

In our society, we are all looking for an answer to Herzen's question, "who is to blame?". It is not necessary to look for who is an apostate from Marxism, and there is no need to look for what has departed from Marx's theory in the cause of building socialism. The question, "who and what is to blame?" is rhetorical. The whole course of Soviet history is in accordance with the laws of Marx's theory. Marxism is the theory of the general laws of the development of society. But it also includes a specific theory of the development of capitalist society and the creation of a future society as a way of resolving the contradictions of capitalism. Everything that was done in Soviet history was done in accordance with the general theory of the development of society. And what was not done regarding the theory of the objective laws of communist society development, there were simply no conditions for that. At first, everything was determined by the level of development of productive forces, then by the established relations of production. Liberals of all sorts claim that the demise of Soviet society proved the utopianism of Marxism. In fact, on the contrary, Soviet history has proven Marxism to be right.

Back in the discussions of the 50s and 60s, Evald Ilyenkov wrote a letter to economists in which he expressed an interesting thought. He argued that many economists knew Marx's "Das Kapital" almost by heart, but none of them had been able to study the Soviet economy itself on the basis of their knowledge of "Das Kapital". The whole misfortune of Soviet science was that economists sought to apply "Das Kapital" by simply quoting individual fragments of the text. Typically, quotations were and still are used to prove a certain point of view. Some prove their opinion by relying on some quotes, their opponents use other quotes to refute the former and prove a different view of the issue. All of them are swinging quotes from the classics around as if they were sabers. To conclude Soviet reality from Marx's quotations without a real awareness of Soviet practice is simply a rejection of a materialist understanding of historical processes.

I have attempted to use the following method given in "Das Kapital". Initially, the simplest form of the plan is derived, which, like a commodity for the capitalist economy, is a cell of the Soviet economy. The simplest formula for a plan is expressed by the following equation:

'''X rubles = Y commodity A'''

('''X''' being the amount of rubles and '''Y''' the real quantity of commodity of a certain quality '''A''').

This is a comparison of the planned target in monetary terms with the created value of the produced commodity. In this very cell lay all the contradictions of the Soviet economy. The further narration shows the progression of the contradictions embedded in the plan. Quotation is also used, though not as an argument for proof, but rather as an illustration of what is being said.

This research aims to provide a different, distinct vision of the causes for the failure of socialism in the USSR, based on the internal contradictions of Soviet planning. The paper will take the form of short essays set out in a certain logical sequence. The essays will be posted as they are written. And one more quick note. In these abstracts posted online I do not footnote the literature used. But these essays will be the basis for the printed edition, in which all necessary references and sources will be made.

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{{Library work|title=Preface: The Soviet economy is socialist or...?|author=Ivan Potapenkov|written in=July 13, 2023|translated by=Anastasia S.|original language=Russian|type=Essay|source=https://telegra.ph/Ivan-Potapenkov-Preface-The-Soviet-economy-is-socialist-or-06-30}}<blockquote>''This publication launches the translation of a series of essays on the Soviet economy written by Ivan Mikhailovich Potapenkov, a political economist who has been researching the subject for more than 20 years.''
''The originals of these essays were published in Russian, yet their theoretical significance for the entire international Communist movement is determined by the fact that they show for the first time the general laws of motion of the Soviet commodity-planned mode of production.''

''These essays reveal the objective contradictions of the Soviet economy, providing a materialist explanation of all its crises and paradoxes, and showing the basis that led to Perestroika and the restoration of capitalism.''</blockquote>Many books have been written about the Soviet past, and the reasons for the demise of Soviet society still preoccupy people's minds, for the very demise of this society was unexpected even for Western Sovietologists.
When searching for the causes of the downfall of the Soviet Union, most people focus on finding the answer to the question of under which General Secretary there was a departure from Marxism. This approach is facilitated by the fact that the initial activities of each General Secretary began with new reforms. With each new General Secretary, a new "socialism" was built. Therefore, the entire Soviet history has turned into the history of the General Secretaries.

But as for me, I couldn't care less who was the General Secretary in any particular historical period, although I do mention their names in my writings. I'm not interested in who said and did what. I am only interested in WHY exactly a particular representative said and did it.

My research on the Soviet economy has led me to the following conclusions. As is well known, communist relations of production cannot arise in the depths of capitalism, for their formation requires a systematic organization of production on a society-wide scale, which is hindered by private property. Therefore, the formation of the communist mode of production begins with the conquest of political domination by the proletariat in order to use the power of the state to eliminate private property and unite all the means of production into a single state-owned property.

Having eliminated private property, society will proceed to the conscious formation of communist relations of production, which implies an increasing role of the subjective factor. It is quite clear that history is made by people, but that does not mean they make it based on their whims and fantasies. On the one hand, people create history, but on the other hand, they have to create history in certain historical conditions inherited from previous generations and their own previous activities. What kind of relations of production will be formed has to be determined not by what people want to achieve, but rather by the existing level of development of the productive forces and the structure of classes at the time of their formation.

The insufficient level of development of the productive forces was the reason for the unfavorable structure of classes, which lead to the need to preserve certain forms from the preceding bourgeois mode of production. In such a case, the proletariat, under the leadership of its vanguard, the Party, on the basis of the general laws of social development, began to form communist relations of production, for which the conditions were not yet fully formed. The creation of new relations of production in the communist mode of production also creates the forms through which they are put into practice. But due to the fact that the forms inherent in the old relations of production still remained, the newly emerging forms were affected by them. As a result, there was a form that combined both the new and the old. Such a form in itself possessed opposites, which later turned into contradictions.

The relations of production that emerged gave rise to a new social structure of society in which different classes played different roles in social production. The new classes were united in their desire to build a socialist society. But since the form (in which the relations between the classes are manifested) possessed opposites, these opposites found their expression in the contradiction of the interests of the different classes under a false external unity. It was inevitable, then, that there would emerge a class that was interested in preserving the established relations of production and the form of their manifestation.

Eventually, these contradictions escalated into conflict. The participants of social production realized that it was impossible to develop further in this direction, and that the existing relations of production were hindering the development of the productive forces of society.

Life itself demands the comprehension of the existing contradictions and objective laws of the development of social production. And thus, in the early 1980s, after the death of Leonid Brezhnev, the fact that we do not know the society in which we live in was openly admitted. And without understanding the cause-and-effect relationships inherent in the Soviet economy, it is impossible to predict what direction to move forward in. In this scenario, the search for the resolution of contradictions was based on the way they were resolved in the bourgeois world. The attempt to resolve the existing contradictions using market methods led to the restoration of capitalism.

The Soviet Union is dead, yet supporters of socialism nowadays prefer to stick to the old saying: "Of the dead nothing but good is to be said." However, for the sake of future generations, who will face the challenge of becoming the new builders of communist society, the Soviet past must be dissected in the most ruthless manner, all the boils of the Soviet economy must be opened, and such things are usually unflattering. For if we are Communists, we have only one right - we must tell the truth, no matter how harsh it may be; there is no point in being afraid of what the liberal milieu will think of us. Let them say whatever they please, we will simply follow our own path.

The proposed essays do not portray the Soviet economy through rose-colored glasses. I therefore wish to avoid some misunderstandings beforehand. I have nothing against any particular Soviet leader, whether he was a member of the Central Committee of the Party or the Politburo, or a minister, or a representative of the State Planning Committee, or a simple factory director. For me, they are just faces in which economic categories are personified. In my view, the development of Soviet society is a natural-historical process, so no individual person can be held responsible for everything that took place in Soviet society. People acted upon whatever conditions dictated to them.

After giving lectures on the Soviet economy, people ask a lot of questions, but among them the most common are:

1) How, under such a flawed economic system, were we able to accomplish so much, transforming backward Russia into an industrially developed Soviet Union?

2) Were the economic problems due to sabotage?

The answer to the first question is simple. No one diminishes the achievements of the Soviet Union, and I am proud to have lived and worked in that country. Despite all the flaws, we have really achieved a lot, but, as an aircraft designer and economist Oleg Antonov rightly noted back in the 60s, how many more peaks we could conquer, if it were not for the existing shortcomings in economic practice. Today we can add to this: not only would we have reached new heights, we would not find ourselves today at a broken trough, trying to solve the problem of how to start building socialism again.

The answer to the second question is not so simple; each class of Soviet society had its own logic and if you start accusing someone of being a pest, you will have to accuse everyone. In the essays I have tried to show by virtue of what objective circumstances certain deeds of people were done. At the same time, I ask you to take into account in advance that the Soviet economy is full of absurdities and paradoxes, which sometimes seem irrational and contrary to common sense.

In our society, we are all looking for an answer to Herzen's question, "who is to blame?". It is not necessary to look for who is an apostate from Marxism, and there is no need to look for what has departed from Marx's theory in the cause of building socialism. The question, "who and what is to blame?" is rhetorical. The whole course of Soviet history is in accordance with the laws of Marx's theory. Marxism is the theory of the general laws of the development of society. But it also includes a specific theory of the development of capitalist society and the creation of a future society as a way of resolving the contradictions of capitalism. Everything that was done in Soviet history was done in accordance with the general theory of the development of society. And what was not done regarding the theory of the objective laws of communist society development, there were simply no conditions for that. At first, everything was determined by the level of development of productive forces, then by the established relations of production. Liberals of all sorts claim that the demise of Soviet society proved the utopianism of Marxism. In fact, on the contrary, Soviet history has proven Marxism to be right.

Back in the discussions of the 50s and 60s, Evald Ilyenkov wrote a letter to economists in which he expressed an interesting thought. He argued that many economists knew Marx's "Das Kapital" almost by heart, but none of them had been able to study the Soviet economy itself on the basis of their knowledge of "Das Kapital". The whole misfortune of Soviet science was that economists sought to apply "Das Kapital" by simply quoting individual fragments of the text. Typically, quotations were and still are used to prove a certain point of view. Some prove their opinion by relying on some quotes, their opponents use other quotes to refute the former and prove a different view of the issue. All of them are swinging quotes from the classics around as if they were sabers. To conclude Soviet reality from Marx's quotations without a real awareness of Soviet practice is simply a rejection of a materialist understanding of historical processes.

I have attempted to use the following method given in "Das Kapital". Initially, the simplest form of the plan is derived, which, like a commodity for the capitalist economy, is a cell of the Soviet economy. The simplest formula for a plan is expressed by the following equation:

'''X rubles = Y commodity A'''

('''X''' being the amount of rubles and '''Y''' the real quantity of commodity of a certain quality '''A''').

This is a comparison of the planned target in monetary terms with the created value of the produced commodity. In this very cell lay all the contradictions of the Soviet economy. The further narration shows the progression of the contradictions embedded in the plan. Quotation is also used, though not as an argument for proof, but rather as an illustration of what is being said.

This research aims to provide a different, distinct vision of the causes for the failure of socialism in the USSR, based on the internal contradictions of Soviet planning. The paper will take the form of short essays set out in a certain logical sequence. The essays will be posted as they are written. And one more quick note. In these abstracts posted online I do not footnote the literature used. But these essays will be the basis for the printed edition, in which all necessary references and sources will be made.

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2023-09-12T19:28:03Z

Andassol: Fixed typo, added a bit more info and added more references

{{Infobox political party|name=Communist Party of Venezuela|native_name=Partido Comunista de Venezuela|logo=PCV logo.png|founded=5 March 1931|abbreviation=PCV|general_secretary=[[Óscar Figuera|Óscar Figuera]]|newspaper=''Popular Tribune''|youth_wing=[[Communist Youth of Venezuela|Communist Youth of Venezuela]]|political_orientation=[[Marxism-Leninism]]|international=[[IMCWP]]|slogan=''¡El socialismo sigue siendo la esperanza de los pueblos!''|website=https://prensapcv.wordpress.com/}}{{Communist Parties}}The '''Communist Party of Venezuela''' ('''PCV''') is a [[communist party]] that was born on March 5, 1931, being the oldest contemporary party in [[Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela|Venezuela]]. Being a party of [[Marxism–Leninism|Marxist-Leninist]] ideology, it stands as a party of the [[Proletariat|proletarian class]] in which workers, [[Peasantry|peasants]], [[Revolution|revolutionaries]] and youth converge, in the pursuit of the establishment of a [[Socialism|socialist]] state. In 2020 they separated from the government coalition [[Gran Polo Patriotico]] and formed the [[Popular Revolutionary Alternative]] (APR), a coalition of communist and socialist parties. It currently opposes the [[Chavismo|Chavista]] government of [[Nicolás Maduro]].<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=[[In Defense of Communism]]|title=Venezuela: New anti-communist attack against the PCV and the workers' movement|date=2022-05-25|url=https://www.idcommunism.com/2022/07/venezuela-new-anti-communist-attack-the-pcv-and-workers-movement.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220806201432/http://www.idcommunism.com/2022/07/venezuela-new-anti-communist-attack-the-pcv-and-workers-movement.html|archive-date=2022-08-06|retrieved=2022-08-10}}</ref>

== Government political persecution ==
[[File:Gobierno incumple acuerdo con PCV - Tribuna Popular 3008.png|alt=An article from the PCV's Central Committee's organ - Tribuna Popular - number 3008 from August 2019 denouncing that the PSUV has not fulfilled the PSUV-PCV Unitary Agreement.|thumb|An article from the PCV's Central Committee's organ - Tribuna Popular - number 3008 from August 2019 denouncing that the PSUV has not fulfilled the PSUV-PCV Unitary Agreement.]]
In 2020 PCV demanded a discussion during the 2020 [[National Assembly (Venezuela)|National Assembly]] elections of the government's agressive anti-worker [[Neoliberalism|neoliberal]] policies that were being implemented<ref>{{Web citation|author=Central Unitaria de Trabajadores de Venezuela (CUTV)|newspaper=Tribuna Popular|title=En el Día de Acción Mundial del sindicalismo clasista la CUTV denuncia indefensión jurídica y social de la clase trabajadora venezolana|date=2022-10-03|url=https://prensapcv.wordpress.com/2022/10/03/en-el-dia-de-accion-mundial-del-sindicalismo-clasista-la-cutv-denuncia-indefension-juridica-y-social-de-la-clase-trabajadora-venezolana/}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|author=Pedro Eusse|newspaper=Tribuna Popular|title=Eusse: El Gobierno de Maduro optó por políticas de corte neoliberal|date=2023-03-03|url=https://prensapcv.wordpress.com/eusse-el-gobierno-de-maduro-opto-por-politicas-de-corte-neoliberal/}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|author=Héctor Alejo Rodríguez|newspaper=Tribuna Popular|title=From the patriotic alliance to rupture: a decade of relations between the PCV and Nicolas Maduro|date=2023-05-11|url=https://prensapcv.wordpress.com/2023/05/11/from-the-patriotic-alliance-to-rupture-a-decade-of-relations-between-the-pcv-and-nicolas-maduro/}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Tribuna Popular|title=PCV: Maduro mantiene política complaciente con el empresariado|date=2023-08-01|url=https://prensapcv.wordpress.com/2023/08/01/video-pcv-maduro-mantiene-politica-complaciente-con-el-empresariado/}}</ref> and the [[:File:Gobierno incumple acuerdo con PCV - Tribuna Popular 3008.png|systematic breach]] of the "[[United Socialist Party of Venezuela|PSUV]]-PCV Unitary Framework Agreement" signed in April 2018.<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Tribuna Popular|title=UNITARY AGREEMENT BETWEEN PSUV AND PCV|date=2018-03-02|url=https://prensapcv.wordpress.com/2018/03/02/unitary-agreement-between-psuv-and-pcv/}}</ref> When the government refused to engage in this discussion, the PCV decided to pursue an alternative popular and revolutionary path. This event signaled the beginning of the persecution of the PCV.

The assault on the PCV has involved various stages, including an attempt to disrupt the PCV's 16th National Congress in November of the previous year. When that failed and the PCV remained cohesive, the next phase involved the venezuelan government trying to recruit PCV members with offers of incentives, including jobs, money, food, houses, and vehicles, but these attempts were rejected.

In response to the failure of recruitment efforts, the government of Nicolás Maduro orchestrated a fraudulent event on May 21st, 2023 with the aim of undermining the legitimate decision-making processes within the PCV. The General Secretary of the Central Committee of the PCV, [[Óscar Figuera]], accused Maduro of attempting to use administrative or judicial measures to align the PCV with his neoliberal policies.

The leadership of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) held a fraudulent congress with a presidium consisting of individuals not affiliated with the PCV to promote intervention in the communist party. This congress was widely seen as illegitimate and was seen as part of a plan to weaken the PCV after it distanced itself from the anti-worker policies of the Maduro government, as explained by Figuera in a press statement.

Figuera explained that this action aimed to prevent the PCV from continuing its role as a [[Social class|class-based]] force serving the Venezuelan people and the working class. It also sought to impede the PCV's efforts to promote unity of action among workers and strengthen the organization and struggle of the Venezuelan people.

Despite these challenges, the PCV expressed gratitude for the solidarity it has received from the Venezuelan people, organizations, intellectuals, revolutionary movements, and international communist and workers' parties. The PCV pledged to continue its role in supporting and advancing the [[Class struggle|struggles]] of the Venezuelan people, regardless of actions taken by those in power.<ref name=":0">{{Web citation|newspaper=Tribuna Popular|title=Gobierno intenta crear un falso PCV subordinado a su política neoliberal|date=2023-05-22|url=https://prensapcv.wordpress.com/2023/05/22/video-gobierno-intenta-crear-un-falso-pcv-subordinado-a-su-politica-neoliberal/}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{YouTube citation|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnsV8nce8ic|channel=Partido Comunista de Venezuela|title=Gobierno de Maduro intenta crear un falso PCV subordinado a su política neoliberal|date=2023-05-22}}</ref>

=== Sequence of events ===
In a dossier that has been translated and made available on Solidnet,<ref>{{Web citation|author=Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Venezuela|newspaper=Solidnet|title=Plan to assault and intervene in the Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV)|date=2023-04|url=http://www.solidnet.org/.galleries/documents/Dossier-Evidence-Plan-to-Assault-the-PCV.pdf}}</ref> the official website of the [[International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties]] (IMCWP), the PCV has made available a sequence of events that contains in detail and with ample evidence the plan orchestrated by the PSUV to assault and intervene in the communist party.

==== 2021 ====
[[Diosdado Cabello]], vice-president of the PSUV (United Socialist Party of Venezuela), used his TV program to attack the PCV (Communist Party of Venezuela) and alleged that the PCV was subordinated to [[Imperialism|imperialist]] plans.<ref>{{Web citation|author=AlbertoRodNews|newspaper=Twitter|title=Twitter video|date=2022-08-31|url=https://twitter.com/i/status/1565138448478003201|quote=ÚLTIMA HORA {{!}} Diosdado Cabello arremete contra la cúpula del PCV: "La actitud de ellos, es la de EEUU y son financiados por el ladrón de Rafael Ramírez"}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Con el Mazo Dando|title=Diosdado Cabello: La actual directiva del PCV tiene el mismo discurso que los gringos|date=2023-03-30|url=https://mazo4f.com/diosdado-cabello-la-actual-directiva-del-pcv-tiene-el-mismo-discurso-que-los-gringos}}</ref>

==== End of 2021 ====
Cabello began implementing the first phase of the PSUV's plan to undermine the PCV. He propagated the false narrative of divisions within the PCV and received supposed letters of support from "regional organizations of the PCV".

==== September 2022 ====
[[File:A letter from the supposed “grassroots” of the PCV.png|alt=A letter from the supposed “grassroots” of the PCV to Diosdado Cabello signed by the mercenaries Zoilo Arostegui, Carlos Fermín and Darío Fermín.|thumb|A letter from the supposed “grassroots” of the PCV to Diosdado Cabello signed by the mercenaries Zoilo Arostegui, Carlos Fermín and Darío Fermín.]]
[[:File:A letter from the supposed “grassroots” of the PCV.png|One of the leaked letters from individuals claiming to be PCV members]] requested the PSUV's intervention in the PCV. However, it was revealed that the signatories ([[Zoilo Arostegui]], [[Carlos Fermín]] and [[Darío Fermín]]) were not PCV members but largely affiliated with the PSUV.

==== November 2022 ====
The 16th National Congress of the PCV solidified the party's unity against the government's policies. This prompted the PSUV to accelerate a second phase of its plan to intervene in the PCV.

==== February 4, 2023 ====
Cabello ordered the public appearance of supposed "PCV grassroots" supporting the government's policies. The PSUV provided logistical and financial support, using individuals who pretended to be PCV members.<ref>{{YouTube citation|url=https://www.youtube.com/live/qm-XDCKdrho?feature=share|channel=Transmisión en vivo|title=Gran Marcha en conmemoración a los 31 años del 4 de febrero|date=2023-02-04}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Con el Mazo Dando|title=Cabello sobre militantes del PCV en marcha del 4-F: ¡Es rebelión contra las cúpulas!|date=2023-02-04|url=https://mazo4f.com/cabello-sobre-militantes-del-pcv-en-marcha-del-4-f-es-rebelion-contra-las-cupulas}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|author=Diosdado Cabello|newspaper=Twitter|title=Twitter|date=2023-02-04|url=https://twitter.com/dcabellor/status/1622032559759626242|quote=#FebreroRebeldeConChávez Rebelión contra las cúpulas que obedecen las órdenes del imperialismo. Nosotros Venceremos!!}}</ref>

==== February 11, 2023 ====
[[File:Monaga's State Governor's office supports the event to assault PCV.png|alt=Monagas State Governor's office supports the diffusion of a press conference calling for a “rescue” of the PCV in Monagas State, with the purpose of assaulting PCV in the state.|thumb|Monagas State Governor's office supports the diffusion of a press conference calling for a “rescue” of the PCV in Monagas State, with the purpose of assaulting PCV in the state.]]
The PSUV allocated significant resources for a meeting of these "grassroots," which revealed that the supposed PCV members did not exist, and the PSUV recruited participants from its ranks and state organizations. [[:File:Monaga's State Governor's office supports the event to assault PCV.png|The Governor's Office of the State of Monagas is probably the source of logistical and financial support for the execution of the plan of assault against the PCV]].<ref>{{YouTube citation|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mm3HCLLPCck|channel=Luigino Bracci Roa desde Venezuela|title=Inicia proceso para quitarle al PCV su tarjeta electoral|date=2023-02-12}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|author=Jesús Rafael Zambrano Regional Committee Collective political leadership of the Communist Party of Venezuela in Monagas|newspaper=Tribuna Popular|title=PCV Monagas: ¿Bases del PCV o mercenarios políticos a sueldo del PSUV?|date=2023-02-05|url=https://prensapcv.wordpress.com/2023/02/05/comunicado-pcv-monagas-bases-del-pcv-o-mercenarios-politicos-a-sueldo-del-psuv/}}</ref>

==== March 15, 2023 ====
[[File:Audio revealing the plan to assault the PCV.mp3|thumb|Audio from PSUV MP [[Jesús Farías]] revealing the plan to assault the PCV.]]
An [[:File:Audio revealing the plan to assault the PCV.mp3|audio leak from a PSUV leader]] confirmed the PSUV's role in the plan to intervene in the PCV.<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Tribuna Popular|title=Continúa plan para asaltar al PCV: audio de Jesús Faría Tortosa reveló próximas maniobras|date=2023-02-11|url=https://prensapcv.wordpress.com/2023/03/11/continua-plan-para-asaltar-al-pcv-audio-de-jesus-faria-tortosa-revelo-proximas-maniobras/}}</ref>

==== March 18, 2023 ====
[[File:Mercenaries attending the fraudulent assembly in Barinas.png|alt=Mercenaries attending the fraudulent assembly organized by the PSUV in Barinas that was part of the plan to take over the PCV and hand it to PSUV loyalists.|thumb|Mercenaries attending the fraudulent assembly organized by the PSUV in Barinas that was part of the plan to take over the PCV and hand it to PSUV loyalists.]]
An [[:File:Mercenaries attending the fraudulent assembly in Barinas.png|assembly in Barinas]] exposed that the PSUV was orchestrating the plan to take over the PCV and hand it to PSUV loyalists.<ref>{{Web citation|author=soy Carito Carito|newspaper=Twitter|title=Twitter video|date=2023-03-15|url=https://twitter.com/i/status/1636176780296855553}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|author=Sebastiana Barráez|newspaper=Infobae|title=Un dirigente de Barinas denuncia: “El gobierno nacional está buscado asaltar de facto la dirección del Partido Comunista”|date=2023-03-15|url=https://www.infobae.com/venezuela/2023/03/15/un-dirigente-de-barinas-denuncia-el-gobierno-nacional-esta-buscado-asaltar-de-facto-la-direccion-del-partido-comunista/}}</ref>

==== March 29, 2023 ====
[[:File:Diosdado Cabello greets mercenaries 2.png|Cabello introduced the leaders of the PSUV-recruited "PCV grassroots" on his TV program]], one of the leaders being [[Griseldys Herrera]], confirming that the letters from PCV members were fabricated.<ref>{{YouTube citation|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JZNzki7Xjo|channel=Transmisión en vivo|title=Con El Mazo Dando - Programa 425|date=2023-03-29}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|author=Contraloría Monagas|newspaper=Twitter|title=Twitter|date=2022-11-17|url=https://twitter.com/CEMonagas01/status/1593316334145871873|quote=#17Nov/ Contralor del Estado Monagas y directoras de la #CEM sostuvieron importante encuentro con la Dra. Griseldys Herrera, Consultora Jurídica de @GobMonagas_
donde se abordaron generalidades de las contrataciones públicas adaptadas a los nuevos tiempos.
@CGRVenezuela}}</ref><gallery mode="packed">
File:Diosdado Cabello greets mercenaries 1.png|Diosdado Cabello greets and presents the mercenary heads for the first time on his TV program "Con El Mazo Dando" #425
File:Diosdado Cabello greets mercenaries 2.png|Diosdado Cabello greets and presents the mercenary heads for the first time on his TV program "Con El Mazo Dando" #425
</gallery>

==== April 15, 2023 ====
Mercenaries, including a former PCV member, [[Henry Parra]], held a press conference. They were not genuine PCV members and held positions in various state institutions.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Diario del Pueblo|newspaper=Instagram|title=Instagram video|date=2023-04-15|url=https://www.instagram.com/reel/CrEcQU2syME/}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|author=Partido Comunista de Venezuela|newspaper=Twitter|title=Twitter video|date=2021-11-14|url=https://twitter.com/PCV_Venezuela/status/1459951244815044615|quote=Declaración del Comité Regional del PCV en #Táchira:

El pronunciamiento de Henry Parra y Jaime Otero de apoyar las candidaturas del PSUV no representa la línea política del Partido Comunista de Venezuela.}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|author=Favio Hernández|newspaper=Diario La Nación|title=El “Gallo” Parra y Jaime Otero fueron expulsados del PCV|date=2021-11-13|url=https://lanacionweb.com/politica/el-gallo-parra-y-jaime-otero-fueron-expulsados-del-pcv/}}</ref>

==== May 21, 2023 ====
The leadership of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) held a fraudulent congress with a presidium consisting of individuals not affiliated with the PCV to promote intervention in the communist party with the aim of undermining the legitimate decision-making processes.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" />

==== August 18, 2023 ====
The Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice admitted a motion for legal protection filed by a group of political operators led by the leadership of the PSUV to take by assault the PCV. Through ruling 1160, the Supreme Court appointed an ad hoc board made up of citizens who have nothing to do with the Communist Party of Venezuela.<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Tribuna Popular|title=Documentos clave del asalto judicial ejecutado por el Gobierno de Nicolás Maduro contra el PCV|date=2023-08-18|url=https://prensapcv.wordpress.com/2023/08/18/pdf-documentos-clave-del-asalto-judicial-ejecutado-por-el-gobierno-de-nicolas-maduro-contra-el-pcv/}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Tribuna Popular|title=Documentos clave del asalto judicial ejecutado por el Gobierno de Nicolás Maduro contra el PCV (PDF file)|date=2023-08-18|url=https://prensapcv.files.wordpress.com/2023/08/anexos_para_-el_-analisis-y-discusion-1.pdf}}</ref>

== References ==
[[Category:Communist parties]]
<references />

== External links ==

* [https://prensapcv.wordpress.com/ Tribuna Popular], Newsletter of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Venezuela
* [http://www.solidnet.org Solidnet], official website of the [[International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties]] (IMCWP)

Communist Party of Venezuela

2023-09-12T04:56:06Z

Andassol: Fixed typo

{{Infobox political party|name=Communist Party of Venezuela|native_name=Partido Comunista de Venezuela|logo=PCV logo.png|founded=5 March 1931|abbreviation=PCV|general_secretary=[[Óscar Figuera|Óscar Figuera]]|newspaper=''Popular Tribune''|youth_wing=[[Communist Youth of Venezuela|Communist Youth of Venezuela]]|political_orientation=[[Marxism-Leninism]]|international=[[IMCWP]]|slogan=''¡El socialismo sigue siendo la esperanza de los pueblos!''|website=https://prensapcv.wordpress.com/}}{{Communist Parties}}The '''Communist Party of Venezuela''' ('''PCV''') is a [[communist party]] that was born on March 5, 1931, being the oldest contemporary party in [[Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela|Venezuela]]. Being a party of [[Marxism–Leninism|Marxist-Leninist]] ideology, it stands as a party of the [[Proletariat|proletarian class]] in which workers, [[Peasantry|peasants]], [[Revolution|revolutionaries]] and youth converge, in the pursuit of the establishment of a [[Socialism|socialist]] state. In 2020 they separated from the government coalition [[Gran Polo Patriotico]]. It currently o pposes the [[Chavismo|Chavista]] government of [[Nicolás Maduro]].<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=[[In Defense of Communism]]|title=Venezuela: New anti-communist attack against the PCV and the workers' movement|date=2022-05-25|url=https://www.idcommunism.com/2022/07/venezuela-new-anti-communist-attack-the-pcv-and-workers-movement.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220806201432/http://www.idcommunism.com/2022/07/venezuela-new-anti-communist-attack-the-pcv-and-workers-movement.html|archive-date=2022-08-06|retrieved=2022-08-10}}</ref>

== Government political persecution ==
[[File:Gobierno incumple acuerdo con PCV - Tribuna Popular 3008.png|alt=An article from the PCV's Central Committee's organ - Tribuna Popular - number 3008 from August 2019 denouncing that the PSUV has not fulfilled the PSUV-PCV Unitary Agreement.|thumb|An article from the PCV's Central Committee's organ - Tribuna Popular - number 3008 from August 2019 denouncing that the PSUV has not fulfilled the PSUV-PCV Unitary Agreement.]]
In 2020 PCV demanded a discussion during the 2020 [[National Assembly (Venezuela)|National Assembly]] elections of the government's agressive anti-worker, anti-popular and [[Liberalism|ultra-liberal]] policies that were being implemented and the [[:File:Gobierno incumple acuerdo con PCV - Tribuna Popular 3008.png|systematic breach]] of the "[[United Socialist Party of Venezuela|PSUV]]-PCV Unitary Framework Agreement" signed in April 2018.<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Tribuna Popular|title=UNITARY AGREEMENT BETWEEN PSUV AND PCV|date=2018-03-02|url=https://prensapcv.wordpress.com/2018/03/02/unitary-agreement-between-psuv-and-pcv/}}</ref> When the government refused to engage in this discussion, the PCV decided to pursue an alternative popular and revolutionary path. This event signaled the beginning of the persecution of the PCV.

The assault on the PCV has involved various stages, including an attempt to disrupt the PCV's 16th National Congress in November of the previous year. When that failed and the PCV remained cohesive, the next phase involved the venezuelan government trying to recruit PCV members with offers of incentives, including jobs, money, food, houses, and vehicles, but these attempts were rejected.

In response to the failure of recruitment efforts, the government of Nicolás Maduro orchestrated a fraudulent event on May 21st, 2023 with the aim of undermining the legitimate decision-making processes within the PCV. The General Secretary of the Central Committee of the PCV, [[Óscar Figuera]], accused Maduro of attempting to use administrative or judicial measures to align the PCV with his [[Neoliberalism|neoliberal]] policies.

The leadership of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) held a fraudulent congress with a presidium consisting of individuals not affiliated with the PCV to promote intervention in the communist party. This congress was widely seen as illegitimate and was seen as part of a plan to weaken the PCV after it distanced itself from the anti-worker policies of the Maduro government, as explained by Figuera in a press statement.

Figuera explained that this action aimed to prevent the PCV from continuing its role as a [[Social class|class-based]] force serving the Venezuelan people and the working class. It also sought to impede the PCV's efforts to promote unity of action among workers and strengthen the organization and struggle of the Venezuelan people.

Despite these challenges, the PCV expressed gratitude for the solidarity it has received from the Venezuelan people, organizations, intellectuals, revolutionary movements, and international communist and workers' parties. The PCV pledged to continue its role in supporting and advancing the [[Class struggle|struggles]] of the Venezuelan people, regardless of actions taken by those in power.<ref name=":0">{{Web citation|newspaper=Tribuna Popular|title=Gobierno intenta crear un falso PCV subordinado a su política neoliberal|date=2023-05-22|url=https://prensapcv.wordpress.com/2023/05/22/video-gobierno-intenta-crear-un-falso-pcv-subordinado-a-su-politica-neoliberal/}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{YouTube citation|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnsV8nce8ic|channel=Partido Comunista de Venezuela|title=Gobierno de Maduro intenta crear un falso PCV subordinado a su política neoliberal|date=2023-05-22}}</ref>

=== Sequence of events ===
In a dossier that has been translated and made available on Solidnet,<ref>{{Web citation|author=Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Venezuela|newspaper=Solidnet|title=Plan to assault and intervene in the Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV)|date=2023-04|url=http://www.solidnet.org/.galleries/documents/Dossier-Evidence-Plan-to-Assault-the-PCV.pdf}}</ref> the official website of the [[International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties]] (IMCWP), the PCV has made available a sequence of events that contains in detail and with ample evidence the plan orchestrated by the PSUV to assault and intervene in the communist party.

==== 2021 ====
[[Diosdado Cabello]], vice-president of the PSUV (United Socialist Party of Venezuela), used his TV program to attack the PCV (Communist Party of Venezuela) and alleged that the PCV was subordinated to [[Imperialism|imperialist]] plans.<ref>{{Web citation|author=AlbertoRodNews|newspaper=Twitter|title=Twitter video|date=2022-08-31|url=https://twitter.com/i/status/1565138448478003201|quote=ÚLTIMA HORA {{!}} Diosdado Cabello arremete contra la cúpula del PCV: "La actitud de ellos, es la de EEUU y son financiados por el ladrón de Rafael Ramírez"}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Con el Mazo Dando|title=Diosdado Cabello: La actual directiva del PCV tiene el mismo discurso que los gringos|date=2023-03-30|url=https://mazo4f.com/diosdado-cabello-la-actual-directiva-del-pcv-tiene-el-mismo-discurso-que-los-gringos}}</ref>

==== End of 2021 ====
Cabello began implementing the first phase of the PSUV's plan to undermine the PCV. He propagated the false narrative of divisions within the PCV and received supposed letters of support from "regional organizations of the PCV".

==== September 2022 ====
[[File:A letter from the supposed “grassroots” of the PCV.png|alt=A letter from the supposed “grassroots” of the PCV to Diosdado Cabello signed by the mercenaries Zoilo Arostegui, Carlos Fermín and Darío Fermín.|thumb|A letter from the supposed “grassroots” of the PCV to Diosdado Cabello signed by the mercenaries Zoilo Arostegui, Carlos Fermín and Darío Fermín.]]
[[:File:A letter from the supposed “grassroots” of the PCV.png|One of the leaked letters from individuals claiming to be PCV members]] requested the PSUV's intervention in the PCV. However, it was revealed that the signatories ([[Zoilo Arostegui]], [[Carlos Fermín]] and [[Darío Fermín]]) were not PCV members but largely affiliated with the PSUV.

==== November 2022 ====
The 16th National Congress of the PCV solidified the party's unity against the government's policies. This prompted the PSUV to accelerate a second phase of its plan to intervene in the PCV.

==== February 4, 2023 ====
Cabello ordered the public appearance of supposed "PCV grassroots" supporting the government's policies. The PSUV provided logistical and financial support, using individuals who pretended to be PCV members.<ref>{{YouTube citation|url=https://www.youtube.com/live/qm-XDCKdrho?feature=share|channel=Transmisión en vivo|title=Gran Marcha en conmemoración a los 31 años del 4 de febrero|date=2023-02-04}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Con el Mazo Dando|title=Cabello sobre militantes del PCV en marcha del 4-F: ¡Es rebelión contra las cúpulas!|date=2023-02-04|url=https://mazo4f.com/cabello-sobre-militantes-del-pcv-en-marcha-del-4-f-es-rebelion-contra-las-cupulas}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|author=Diosdado Cabello|newspaper=Twitter|title=Twitter|date=2023-02-04|url=https://twitter.com/dcabellor/status/1622032559759626242|quote=#FebreroRebeldeConChávez Rebelión contra las cúpulas que obedecen las órdenes del imperialismo. Nosotros Venceremos!!}}</ref>

==== February 11, 2023 ====
[[File:Monaga's State Governor's office supports the event to assault PCV.png|alt=Monagas State Governor's office supports the diffusion of a press conference calling for a “rescue” of the PCV in Monagas State, with the purpose of assaulting PCV in the state.|thumb|Monagas State Governor's office supports the diffusion of a press conference calling for a “rescue” of the PCV in Monagas State, with the purpose of assaulting PCV in the state.]]
The PSUV allocated significant resources for a meeting of these "grassroots," which revealed that the supposed PCV members did not exist, and the PSUV recruited participants from its ranks and state organizations. [[:File:Monaga's State Governor's office supports the event to assault PCV.png|The Governor's Office of the State of Monagas is probably the source of logistical and financial support for the execution of the plan of assault against the PCV]].<ref>{{YouTube citation|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mm3HCLLPCck|channel=Luigino Bracci Roa desde Venezuela|title=Inicia proceso para quitarle al PCV su tarjeta electoral|date=2023-02-12}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|author=Jesús Rafael Zambrano Regional Committee Collective political leadership of the Communist Party of Venezuela in Monagas|newspaper=Tribuna Popular|title=PCV Monagas: ¿Bases del PCV o mercenarios políticos a sueldo del PSUV?|date=2023-02-05|url=https://prensapcv.wordpress.com/2023/02/05/comunicado-pcv-monagas-bases-del-pcv-o-mercenarios-politicos-a-sueldo-del-psuv/}}</ref>

==== March 15, 2023 ====
[[File:Audio revealing the plan to assault the PCV.mp3|thumb|Audio from PSUV MP [[Jesús Farías]] revealing the plan to assault the PCV.]]
An [[:File:Audio revealing the plan to assault the PCV.mp3|audio leak from a PSUV leader]] confirmed the PSUV's role in the plan to intervene in the PCV.<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Tribuna Popular|title=Continúa plan para asaltar al PCV: audio de Jesús Faría Tortosa reveló próximas maniobras|date=2023-02-11|url=https://prensapcv.wordpress.com/2023/03/11/continua-plan-para-asaltar-al-pcv-audio-de-jesus-faria-tortosa-revelo-proximas-maniobras/}}</ref>

==== March 18, 2023 ====
[[File:Mercenaries attending the fraudulent assembly in Barinas.png|alt=Mercenaries attending the fraudulent assembly organized by the PSUV in Barinas that was part of the plan to take over the PCV and hand it to PSUV loyalists.|thumb|Mercenaries attending the fraudulent assembly organized by the PSUV in Barinas that was part of the plan to take over the PCV and hand it to PSUV loyalists.]]
An [[:File:Mercenaries attending the fraudulent assembly in Barinas.png|assembly in Barinas]] exposed that the PSUV was orchestrating the plan to take over the PCV and hand it to PSUV loyalists.<ref>{{Web citation|author=soy Carito Carito|newspaper=Twitter|title=Twitter video|date=2023-03-15|url=https://twitter.com/i/status/1636176780296855553}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|author=Sebastiana Barráez|newspaper=Infobae|title=Un dirigente de Barinas denuncia: “El gobierno nacional está buscado asaltar de facto la dirección del Partido Comunista”|date=2023-03-15|url=https://www.infobae.com/venezuela/2023/03/15/un-dirigente-de-barinas-denuncia-el-gobierno-nacional-esta-buscado-asaltar-de-facto-la-direccion-del-partido-comunista/}}</ref>

==== March 29, 2023 ====
[[:File:Diosdado Cabello greets mercenaries 2.png|Cabello introduced the leaders of the PSUV-recruited "PCV grassroots" on his TV program]], one of the leaders being [[Griseldys Herrera]], confirming that the letters from PCV members were fabricated.<ref>{{YouTube citation|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JZNzki7Xjo|channel=Transmisión en vivo|title=Con El Mazo Dando - Programa 425|date=2023-03-29}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|author=Contraloría Monagas|newspaper=Twitter|title=Twitter|date=2022-11-17|url=https://twitter.com/CEMonagas01/status/1593316334145871873|quote=#17Nov/ Contralor del Estado Monagas y directoras de la #CEM sostuvieron importante encuentro con la Dra. Griseldys Herrera, Consultora Jurídica de @GobMonagas_
donde se abordaron generalidades de las contrataciones públicas adaptadas a los nuevos tiempos.
@CGRVenezuela}}</ref><gallery mode="packed">
File:Diosdado Cabello greets mercenaries 1.png|Diosdado Cabello greets and presents the mercenary heads for the first time on his TV program "Con El Mazo Dando" #425
File:Diosdado Cabello greets mercenaries 2.png|Diosdado Cabello greets and presents the mercenary heads for the first time on his TV program "Con El Mazo Dando" #425
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==== April 15, 2023 ====
Mercenaries, including a former PCV member, [[Henry Parra]], held a press conference. They were not genuine PCV members and held positions in various state institutions.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Diario del Pueblo|newspaper=Instagram|title=Instagram video|date=2023-04-15|url=https://www.instagram.com/reel/CrEcQU2syME/}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|author=Partido Comunista de Venezuela|newspaper=Twitter|title=Twitter video|date=2021-11-14|url=https://twitter.com/PCV_Venezuela/status/1459951244815044615|quote=Declaración del Comité Regional del PCV en #Táchira:

El pronunciamiento de Henry Parra y Jaime Otero de apoyar las candidaturas del PSUV no representa la línea política del Partido Comunista de Venezuela.}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|author=Favio Hernández|newspaper=Diario La Nación|title=El “Gallo” Parra y Jaime Otero fueron expulsados del PCV|date=2021-11-13|url=https://lanacionweb.com/politica/el-gallo-parra-y-jaime-otero-fueron-expulsados-del-pcv/}}</ref>

==== May 21, 2023 ====
The leadership of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) held a fraudulent congress with a presidium consisting of individuals not affiliated with the PCV to promote intervention in the communist party with the aim of undermining the legitimate decision-making processes.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" />

==== August 18, 2023 ====
The Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice admitted a motion for legal protection filed by a group of political operators led by the leadership of the PSUV to take by assault the PCV. Through ruling 1160, the Supreme Court appointed an ad hoc board made up of citizens who have nothing to do with the Communist Party of Venezuela.<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Tribuna Popular|title=Documentos clave del asalto judicial ejecutado por el Gobierno de Nicolás Maduro contra el PCV|date=2023-08-18|url=https://prensapcv.wordpress.com/2023/08/18/pdf-documentos-clave-del-asalto-judicial-ejecutado-por-el-gobierno-de-nicolas-maduro-contra-el-pcv/}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Tribuna Popular|title=Documentos clave del asalto judicial ejecutado por el Gobierno de Nicolás Maduro contra el PCV (PDF file)|date=2023-08-18|url=https://prensapcv.files.wordpress.com/2023/08/anexos_para_-el_-analisis-y-discusion-1.pdf}}</ref>

== References ==
[[Category:Communist parties]]
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== External links ==

* [https://prensapcv.wordpress.com/ Tribuna Popular], Newsletter of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Venezuela
* [http://www.solidnet.org Solidnet], official website of the [[International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties]] (IMCWP)

Óscar Figuera

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{{Infobox revolutionary|name=Óscar Figuera|birth_date=October 6, 1954|birth_place=Tucupita, Delta Amacuro, [[Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela|Venezuela]]|nationality=Venezuelan|political_orientation=[[Marxism-Leninism|Marxism-Leninism]]|political_party=[[Communist Party of Venezuela|Communist Party of Venezuela]] (PCV)|image=Óscar Figuera.jpg}}

[[Óscar Figuera|Óscar Ramón Figuera González]] (Tucupita, Delta Amacuro state, October 6, 1954) is a communist, marxist-leninist and union leader who serves as General Secretary of the [[Communist Party of Venezuela]] (PCV). He has been deputy to the [[National Assembly (Venezuela)|National Assembly of Venezuela]] for the states of Aragua (2006-2011) and Guárico (2011-2021), and for the National List (2021-2026). In the last parliamentary elections of December 6, 2020, he was a candidate for the Communist Party of Venezuela, an organization that made a canopy apart from the [[Great Patriotic Pole|Simón Bolívar Great Patriotic Pole]] forming the [[Popular Revolutionary Alternative]] (APR) with the message of radicalizing the [[Bolivarian Revolution]], which had taken him to the National Assembly in previous periods. He was reelected as deputy to the National Assembly for the period 2021-2026. He is an opposition figure to the [[Nicolás Maduro|Maduro]]'s government.

Óscar Figuera has been the General Secretary of the PCV since 1996, a party he joined in 1977. At the beginning of November, 1996, the 10th Congress of the PCV was held and the Central Committee elected there ratified comrade Óscar Figuera as General Secretary. Figuera has been ratified in the General Secretariat by the Central Committee of the PCV in the 11st, 12nd, 13rd, 14th, 15th and 16th Congresses of the PCV.

Figuera began his union activity at the age of 17, his working life has been framed within the metallurgical workers of Aragua state, where he started as a regional union leader, until 1986, when he was elected as General Secretary of the [[Central Unitaria de Trabajadores de Venezuela]] (CUTV), In 1990 he was ratified as its General Secretary, and in 1996 he was elected as its president, serving in that position for several years in parallel with the position of general secretary of the PCV.
[[File:Gobierno incumple acuerdo con PCV - Tribuna Popular 3008.png|alt=An article from the PCV's Central Committee's organ - Tribuna Popular - number 3008 from August 2019 denouncing that the PSUV has not fulfilled the PSUV-PCV Unitary Agreement.|thumb|An article from the PCV's Central Committee's organ - Tribuna Popular - number 3008 from August 2019 denouncing that the PSUV has not fulfilled the PSUV-PCV Unitary Agreement.]]
Since 2021 Figuera has denounced the [[United Socialist Party of Venezuela|PSUV]]'s attacks on the PCV, which started in 2020 when the communist party questioned and demanded a discussion on the [[Neoliberalism|neoliberal]] policies implemented by the government<ref>{{Web citation|author=Central Unitaria de Trabajadores de Venezuela (CUTV)|newspaper=Tribuna Popular|title=En el Día de Acción Mundial del sindicalismo clasista la CUTV denuncia indefensión jurídica y social de la clase trabajadora venezolana|date=2022-10-03|url=https://prensapcv.wordpress.com/2022/10/03/en-el-dia-de-accion-mundial-del-sindicalismo-clasista-la-cutv-denuncia-indefension-juridica-y-social-de-la-clase-trabajadora-venezolana/}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|author=Pedro Eusse|newspaper=Tribuna Popular|title=Eusse: El Gobierno de Maduro optó por políticas de corte neoliberal|date=2023-03-03|url=https://prensapcv.wordpress.com/eusse-el-gobierno-de-maduro-opto-por-politicas-de-corte-neoliberal/}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|author=Héctor Alejo Rodríguez|newspaper=Tribuna Popular|title=From the patriotic alliance to rupture: a decade of relations between the PCV and Nicolas Maduro|date=2023-05-11|url=https://prensapcv.wordpress.com/2023/05/11/from-the-patriotic-alliance-to-rupture-a-decade-of-relations-between-the-pcv-and-nicolas-maduro/}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Tribuna Popular|title=PCV: Maduro mantiene política complaciente con el empresariado|date=2023-08-01|url=https://prensapcv.wordpress.com/2023/08/01/video-pcv-maduro-mantiene-politica-complaciente-con-el-empresariado/}}</ref> and the [[:File:Gobierno incumple acuerdo con PCV - Tribuna Popular 3008.png|systematic breach]] of the "PSUV-PCV Unitary Framework Agreement" signed in April 2018.<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Tribuna Pupular|title=UNITARY AGREEMENT BETWEEN PSUV AND PCV|date=2018-03-02|url=https://prensapcv.wordpress.com/2018/03/02/unitary-agreement-between-psuv-and-pcv/}}</ref> When the government refused to engage in this discussion, the PCV decided to pursue an alternative popular and revolutionary path, forming the APR. This event signaled the beginning of the persecution of the PCV.<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=ProleWiki|title=Government political persecution|url=https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Venezuela#Government_political_persecution|retrieved=2023-09-12}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Tribuna Popular|title=Gobierno intenta crear un falso PCV subordinado a su política neoliberal|date=2023-05-22|url=https://prensapcv.wordpress.com/2023/05/22/video-gobierno-intenta-crear-un-falso-pcv-subordinado-a-su-politica-neoliberal/}}</ref><ref>{{YouTube citation|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnsV8nce8ic|channel=Partido Comunista de Venezuela|title=Gobierno de Maduro intenta crear un falso PCV subordinado a su política neoliberal|date=2023-05-22}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|author=Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Venezuela|newspaper=Solidnet|title=Plan to assault and intervene in the Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV)|date=2023-04|url=http://www.solidnet.org/.galleries/documents/Dossier-Evidence-Plan-to-Assault-the-PCV.pdf}}</ref>

== References ==
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File:Óscar Figuera.jpg

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A picture of [[Óscar Figuera]], General Secretary of the [[Communist Party of Venezuela]] (PCV).

File:Óscar Figuera.jpg

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A picture of Óscar Figuera, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV).

Diosdado Cabello

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{{Infobox politician|name=Diosdado Cabello|birth_date=April 15, 1963|birth_place=Maturín, Monagas, [[Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela|Venezuela]]|nationality=Venezuelan|political_party=[[United Socialist Party of Venezuela|United Socialist Party of Venezuela]] (PSUV)|image=File:Diosdado_Cabello.png}}

[[Diosdado Cabello|Diosdado Cabello Rondón]] (born Maturín, Monagas state; April 15, 1963) is a [[Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela|Venezuelan]] retired military officer and politician. He is a deputy to the [[National Assembly (Venezuela)|Venezuelan National Assembly]] and vice-president of the [[United Socialist Party of Venezuela]] (PSUV), where he previously served as president. He is also an active member of the army, with the rank of captain.

He entered politics after the attempted coup d'état of February 4, 1992. After [[Hugo Chávez]] came to power in February 1999, Cabello held several positions during his government. In January 2002 he was appointed Vice President of the country. From April 13 to 14, 2002, he held the presidency of Venezuela, for approximately 4 hours, after the resignation of the de facto president, [[Pedro Carmona Estanga]], until the restoration of institutionalism, when he handed over power to the constitutional president, Hugo Chávez. He was vice-president of the Republic, occupied several ministries, such as Public Works and Housing, as well as the governorship of Miranda between 2004 and 2008.

Chávez appointed him president of the PSUV in 2011. When Chávez died, he was mentioned as his possible successor, although this did not happen. In 2012 he was elected president of the Venezuelan National Assembly, a position he held until 2016. Between 2018 and 2020, he was the president of Venezuela's National Constituent Assembly. He became a prominent member of Chávez's [[Fifth Republic Movement]] (MVR) and is considered the second most important person within the [[Bolivarian Revolution]].

In 2014, Diosdado Cabello founded his own weekly TV program on [[Venezolana de Televisión]] (VTV), [[Con el Mazo Dando]].

== Controversies ==

=== Political persecution of communists ===
Cabello is one of the protagonists of the the political persecution<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=ProleWiki|title=Government political persecution|url=https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Venezuela#Government_political_persecution|retrieved=2023-09-09}}</ref> against the [[Communist Party of Venezuela]] (PCV) promoted by the PSUV.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Venezuela|newspaper=Solidnet|title=Plan to assault and intervene in the Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV)|date=2023-04|url=http://www.solidnet.org/.galleries/documents/Dossier-Evidence-Plan-to-Assault-the-PCV.pdf}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Communist Party of Ireland|title=International News. PSUV holds fake congress to assault the Venezuelan Communist Party|date=2023-05-23|url=https://communistparty.ie/en/2023/05/international-news-psuv-holds-fake-congress-to-assault-the-venezuelan-communist-party/}}</ref>

In 2021 he began to use his TV program (Con el Mazo Dando) to attack and undermine the PCV, promoting the matrix of a supposed division in the ranks of the communist party and allegeding that the PCV was subordinated to [[Imperialism|imperialist]] plans.<ref>{{Web citation|author=AlbertoRodNews|newspaper=Twitter|title=Twitter video|date=2022-08-31|url=https://twitter.com/i/status/1565138448478003201|quote=ÚLTIMA HORA {{!}} Diosdado Cabello arremete contra la cúpula del PCV: "La actitud de ellos, es la de EEUU y son financiados por el ladrón de Rafael Ramírez"}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Con el Mazo Dando|title=Diosdado Cabello: La actual directiva del PCV tiene el mismo discurso que los gringos|date=2023-03-30|url=https://mazo4f.com/diosdado-cabello-la-actual-directiva-del-pcv-tiene-el-mismo-discurso-que-los-gringos}}</ref>
[[File:A letter from the supposed “grassroots” of the PCV.png|alt=A letter from the supposed “grassroots” of the PCV to Diosdado Cabello signed by the mercenaries Zoilo Arostegui, Carlos Fermín and Darío Fermín.|thumb|A letter from the supposed “grassroots” of the PCV to Diosdado Cabello signed by the mercenaries Zoilo Arostegui, Carlos Fermín and Darío Fermín.]]
In the end of 2021 he received supposed letters of support from "regional organizations of the PCV". In September 2022 [[:File:A letter from the supposed “grassroots” of the PCV.png|one of the letters from individuals claiming to be PCV members was leaked]], it requested the PSUV's intervention in the PCV. However, it was revealed that the signatories ([[Zoilo Arostegui]], [[Carlos Fermín]] and [[Darío Fermín]]) were not PCV members but largely affiliated with the PSUV.

In February 4, 2023 Cabello ordered the public appearance of supposed "PCV grassroots" supporting the government's policies. The PSUV provided logistical and financial support, using individuals who pretended to be PCV members.<ref>{{YouTube citation|url=https://www.youtube.com/live/qm-XDCKdrho?feature=share|channel=Transmisión en vivo|title=Gran Marcha en conmemoración a los 31 años del 4 de febrero|date=2023-02-04}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Con el Mazo Dando|title=Cabello sobre militantes del PCV en marcha del 4-F: ¡Es rebelión contra las cúpulas!|date=2023-02-04|url=https://mazo4f.com/cabello-sobre-militantes-del-pcv-en-marcha-del-4-f-es-rebelion-contra-las-cupulas}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|author=Diosdado Cabello|newspaper=Twitter|title=Twitter|date=2023-02-04|url=https://twitter.com/dcabellor/status/1622032559759626242|quote=#FebreroRebeldeConChávez Rebelión contra las cúpulas que obedecen las órdenes del imperialismo. Nosotros Venceremos!!}}</ref>
[[File:Monaga's State Governor's office supports the event to assault PCV.png|alt=Monagas State Governor's office supports the diffusion of a press conference calling for a “rescue” of the PCV in Monagas State, with the purpose of assaulting PCV in the state.|thumb|Monagas State Governor's office supports the diffusion of a press conference calling for a “rescue” of the PCV in Monagas State, with the purpose of assaulting PCV in the state.]]
The PSUV allocated significant resources for a meeting of these "grassroots" in February 11, 2023, which revealed that the supposed PCV members did not exist, and the PSUV recruited participants from its ranks and state organizations. [[:File:Monaga's State Governor's office supports the event to assault PCV.png|The Governor's Office of the State of Monagas is probably the source of logistical and financial support for the execution of the plan of assault against the PCV]].<ref>{{YouTube citation|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mm3HCLLPCck|channel=Luigino Bracci Roa desde Venezuela|title=Inicia proceso para quitarle al PCV su tarjeta electoral|date=2023-02-12}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|author=Jesús Rafael Zambrano Regional Committee Collective political leadership of the Communist Party of Venezuela in Monagas|newspaper=Tribuna Popular|title=PCV Monagas: ¿Bases del PCV o mercenarios políticos a sueldo del PSUV?|date=2023-02-05|url=https://prensapcv.wordpress.com/2023/02/05/comunicado-pcv-monagas-bases-del-pcv-o-mercenarios-politicos-a-sueldo-del-psuv/}}</ref>

In March 29, 2023 [[:File:Diosdado Cabello greets mercenaries 2.png|Cabello introduced the leaders of the PSUV-recruited "PCV grassroots" on his TV program]], one of the leaders being [[Griseldys Herrera]], confirming that the letters from PCV members were fabricated.<ref>{{YouTube citation|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JZNzki7Xjo|channel=Transmisión en vivo|title=Con El Mazo Dando - Programa 425|date=2023-03-29}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|author=Contraloría Monagas|newspaper=Twitter|title=Twitter|date=2022-11-17|archive-date=https://twitter.com/CEMonagas01/status/1593316334145871873|quote=#17Nov/ Contralor del Estado Monagas y directoras de la #CEM sostuvieron importante encuentro con la Dra. Griseldys Herrera, Consultora Jurídica de @GobMonagas_
donde se abordaron generalidades de las contrataciones públicas adaptadas a los nuevos tiempos.
@CGRVenezuela}}</ref><gallery mode="packed">
File:Diosdado Cabello greets mercenaries 1.png|Diosdado Cabello greets and presents the mercenary heads for the first time on his TV program "Con El Mazo Dando" #425
File:Diosdado Cabello greets mercenaries 2.png|Diosdado Cabello greets and presents the mercenary heads for the first time on his TV program "Con El Mazo Dando" #425
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== References ==
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Zoilo Arostegui

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{{Infobox politician|name=Zoilo Arostegui|nationality=Venezuelan|political_party=United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV)}}
[[File:Zoilo Arostegui member of the PSUV.png|alt=Screenshot of Zoilo Arostegui's PSUV registration number, proving that he is a member of the party.|thumb|Screenshot of Zoilo Arostegui's PSUV registration number, proving that he is a member of the party.]]
[[Zoilo Arostegui|Zoilo Ramón Arostegui Orozco]] [[:File:Zoilo Arostegui member of the PSUV.png|is a member]] of the [[United Socialist Party of Venezuela]] (PSUV). He belongs to the work team of [[Raúl Brazón]], political coordinator of the regional structure of the PSUV in Monagas.<ref name=":0">{{Web citation|author=Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Venezuela|newspaper=Solidnet|title=Plan to assault and intervene in the Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV)|date=2023-04|url=http://www.solidnet.org/.galleries/documents/Dossier-Evidence-Plan-to-Assault-the-PCV.pdf}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Communist Party of Ireland|title=International News. PSUV holds fake congress to assault the Venezuelan Communist Party|date=2023-05-23|url=https://communistparty.ie/en/2023/05/international-news-psuv-holds-fake-congress-to-assault-the-venezuelan-communist-party/}}</ref>

== Controversies ==
Zoilo Arostegui had a lawsuit open against him (NP01-P-2007-004898) by the commission of physical violence against women. The file mysteriously disappeared.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Tribunal Segundo de control, audiencia y medidas con competencia en materia de Violencia contra la Mujer|newspaper=vLex Venezuela|title=Decisión de Tribunal Segundo de control, audiencia y medidas con competencia en materia de Violencia contra la Mujer de Monagas, de 13 de Septiembre de 2012|date=2012-09-13|url=https://vlexvenezuela.com/vid/ministerio-publico-hirbelis-zoilo-arostegui-398915346}}</ref>
[[File:A letter from the supposed “grassroots” of the PCV.png|alt=A letter from the supposed “grassroots” of the PCV to Diosdado Cabello signed by the mercenaries Zoilo Arostegui, Carlos Fermín and Darío Fermín.|thumb|A letter from the supposed “grassroots” of the PCV to [[Diosdado Cabello]] signed by the mercenaries Zoilo Arostegui, [[Carlos Fermín]] and [[Darío Fermín]].]]
He is also involved in the political persecution<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=ProleWiki|title=Government political persecution|url=https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Venezuela#Government_political_persecution|retrieved=2023-09-09}}</ref> against the [[Communist Party of Venezuela]] (PCV) promoted by the PSUV, as [[:File:A letter from the supposed “grassroots” of the PCV.png|one of the signatories of the letter]] calling for the PSUV to intervene in the PCV, in which he pretended to be a grassroot member of the communist party.<ref name=":0" />

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Carlos Fermín

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{{Infobox politician|name=Carlos Fermín|nationality=Venezuelan|political_orientation=Right wing nationalist}}

[[Carlos Fermín|Carlos José Fermín Márquez]] is the current director of the National Electoral Council (CNE) in Punta de Mata in Monagas, [[Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela|Venezuela]].<sup>[''citation needed'']</sup>

== Controversies ==
[[File:Fermin promoting PRN on Facebook.jpg|alt=Screenshot of Carlos Fermin on May 6, 2022 promoting on Facebook the Venezuelan right-wing nationalist organization PRN which he founded. The post was later deleted.|thumb|Screenshot of Carlos Fermín on May 6, 2022 promoting on Facebook the Venezuelan right-wing nationalist organization PRN which he founded. The post was later deleted.]]
In April 2022, Carlos Fermín alongside with [[Darío Fermín]] formed the movement Proyecto Reconstrucción Nacional (PRN), a [[Right-wing politics|right-wing]] party created with an eye to transform itself into the "only party of the right". He later deleted his posts promoting the PRN on [[Meta Platforms, Inc.|Facebook]] and [[Twitter]].<ref>{{Web citation|author=PROYECTO RECONSTRUCCION NACIONAL|newspaper=Twitter|title=Twitter|date=2022-05-09|url=https://twitter.com/PR_Nacional/status/1523655753202286592|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220509132750/https://twitter.com/PR_Nacional/status/1523655753202286592|archive-date=2022-05-09|retrieved=2023-09-08|quote=PRN Lanza su Manifiesto Nacional Por la Unidad https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=123963093613994&set=pcb.123963150280655}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|author=PROYECTO RECONSTRUCCION NACIONAL|newspaper=Twitter|title=Twitter|date=2022-05-09|url=https://twitter.com/PR_Nacional/status/1523656291952259072|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220509132949/https://twitter.com/PR_Nacional/status/1523656291952259072|archive-date=2022-05-09|retrieved=2023-09-08|quote=Solamente UNIDOS ayudaremos a constituir una alianza electoral sólida, eficiente, viable y realista.Una alianza que logre conectarse con los sentimientos y aspiraciones de la mayoría de los venezolanos; y conquistar su voto, para que a través de él ganemos las próximas elecciones}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|author=Carlos Fermín|newspaper=Twitter|title=Twitter|date=2022-04-07|url=https://twitter.com/fermincarlos33/status/1512093999879921668|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220407154529/https://twitter.com/fermincarlos33/status/1512093999879921668|archive-date=2022-04-07|retrieved=2023-09-08|quote=*Grupo de noticias*
*Actualizaciones e información en tiempo real*
*PRNacional*
https://chat.whatsapp.com/BpAjtfGvI0O2WqB5nUOGbP}}</ref><gallery>
File:PRN Manifesto 1.jpg|Part 1 of the manifesto of the Venezuelan right-wing nationalist organization PRN founded by Carlos Fermín posted on Facebook on May 9, 2022 and later deleted.
File:PRN Manifesto 2.jpg|Part 2 of the manifesto of the Venezuelan right-wing nationalist organization PRN founded by Carlos Fermín posted on Facebook on May 9, 2022 and later deleted.
File:PRN Manifesto 3.jpg|Part 3 of the manifesto of the Venezuelan right-wing nationalist organization PRN founded by Carlos Fermín posted on Facebook on May 9, 2022 and later deleted.
</gallery>[[File:A letter from the supposed “grassroots” of the PCV.png|alt=A letter from the supposed “grassroots” of the PCV to Diosdado Cabello signed by the mercenaries Zoilo Arostegui, Carlos Fermin and Darío Fermín.|thumb|A letter from the supposed “grassroots” of the PCV to Diosdado Cabello signed by the mercenaries [[Zoilo Arostegui]], Carlos Fermín and [[Darío Fermín]].]]
He is also involved in the political persecution<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=ProleWiki|title=Government political persecution|url=https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Venezuela#Government_political_persecution|retrieved=2023-09-09}}</ref> against the [[Communist Party of Venezuela]] (PCV) promoted by the [[United Socialist Party of Venezuela]] (PSUV), as [[:File:A letter from the supposed “grassroots” of the PCV.png|one of the signatories]] and the head of the handling over of the letter to [[Diosdado Cabello]] calling for the PSUV to intervene in the PCV, in which he pretended to be a grassroot member of the communist party. He later left the public limelight after being succesfully identified by the PCV.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Venezuela|newspaper=Solidnet|title=Plan to assault and intervene in the Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV)|date=2023-04|url=http://www.solidnet.org/.galleries/documents/Dossier-Evidence-Plan-to-Assault-the-PCV.pdf}}</ref>

== References ==
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Darío Fermín

2023-09-09T17:44:49Z

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{{Infobox politician|name=Darío Fermín|nationality=Venezuelan|political_orientation=Right wing nationalist}}

[[Darío Fermín]] is currently an officer of the National Electoral Council (CNE) in Punta de Mata in Monagas, [[Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela|Venezuela]].<sup>[''citation needed'']</sup>

== Controversies ==
In April 2022, Darío Fermín alongside with [[Carlos Fermín]] formed the movement Proyecto Reconstrucción Nacional (PRN), a [[Right-wing politics|right-wing]] party created with an eye to transform itself into the "only party of the right".
[[File:A letter from the supposed “grassroots” of the PCV.png|alt=A letter from the supposed “grassroots” of the PCV to Diosdado Cabello signed by the mercenaries Zoilo Arostegui, Carlos Fermín and Darío Fermín.|thumb|A letter from the supposed “grassroots” of the PCV to [[Diosdado Cabello]] signed by the mercenaries [[Zoilo Arostegui]], [[Carlos Fermín]] and Darío Fermín.]]
He is also involved in the political persecution<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=ProleWiki|title=Government political persecution|url=https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Venezuela#Government_political_persecution|retrieved=2023-09-09}}</ref> against the [[Communist Party of Venezuela]] (PCV) promoted by the [[United Socialist Party of Venezuela]] (PSUV), as [[:File:A letter from the supposed “grassroots” of the PCV.png|one of the signatories of the letter]] calling for the PSUV to intervene in the PCV, in which he pretended to be a grassroot member of the communist party.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Venezuela|newspaper=Solidnet|title=Plan to assault and intervene in the Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV)|date=2023-04|url=http://www.solidnet.org/.galleries/documents/Dossier-Evidence-Plan-to-Assault-the-PCV.pdf}}</ref>

== References ==
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Darío Fermín

2023-09-09T17:42:51Z

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{{Infobox politician|name=Darío Fermín|nationality=Venezuelan|political_orientation=Right wing nationalist}}

[[Darío Fermín]] is currently an officer of the National Electoral Council (CNE) in Punta de Mata in Monagas, [[Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela|Venezuela]].<sup>[''citation needed'']</sup>

== Controversies ==
In April 2022, Darío Fermín alongside with [[Carlos Fermín]] formed the movement Proyecto Reconstrucción Nacional (PRN), a [[Right-wing politics|right-wing]] party created with an eye to transform itself into the "only party of the right".
[[File:A letter from the supposed “grassroots” of the PCV.png|alt=A letter from the supposed “grassroots” of the PCV to Diosdado Cabello signed by the mercenaries Zoilo Arostegui, Carlos Fermín and Darío Fermín.|thumb|A letter from the supposed “grassroots” of the PCV to [[Diosdado Cabello]] signed by the mercenaries [[Zoilo Arostegui]], [[Carlos Fermín]] and Darío Fermín.]]
He is also involved in the political persecution<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=ProleWiki|title=Government political persecution|url=https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Venezuela#Government_political_persecution|retrieved=2023-09-09}}</ref> of the [[Communist Party of Venezuela]] (PCV) promoted by the [[United Socialist Party of Venezuela]] (PSUV), as [[:File:A letter from the supposed “grassroots” of the PCV.png|one of the signatories of the letter]] calling for the PSUV to intervene in the PCV, in which he pretended to be a grassroot member of the communist party.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Venezuela|newspaper=Solidnet|title=Plan to assault and intervene in the Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV)|date=2023-04|url=http://www.solidnet.org/.galleries/documents/Dossier-Evidence-Plan-to-Assault-the-PCV.pdf}}</ref>

== References ==
<references />

Carlos Fermín

2023-09-09T17:41:39Z

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{{Infobox politician|name=Carlos Fermín|nationality=Venezuelan|political_orientation=Right wing nationalist}}

[[Carlos Fermín|Carlos José Fermín Márquez]] is the current director of the National Electoral Council (CNE) in Punta de Mata in Monagas, [[Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela|Venezuela]].<sup>[''citation needed'']</sup>

== Controversies ==
[[File:Fermin promoting PRN on Facebook.jpg|alt=Screenshot of Carlos Fermin on May 6, 2022 promoting on Facebook the Venezuelan right-wing nationalist organization PRN which he founded. The post was later deleted.|thumb|Screenshot of Carlos Fermín on May 6, 2022 promoting on Facebook the Venezuelan right-wing nationalist organization PRN which he founded. The post was later deleted.]]
In April 2022, Carlos Fermín alongside with [[Darío Fermín]] formed the movement Proyecto Reconstrucción Nacional (PRN), a [[Right-wing politics|right-wing]] party created with an eye to transform itself into the "only party of the right". He later deleted his posts promoting the PRN on [[Meta Platforms, Inc.|Facebook]] and [[Twitter]].<ref>{{Web citation|author=PROYECTO RECONSTRUCCION NACIONAL|newspaper=Twitter|title=Twitter|date=2022-05-09|url=https://twitter.com/PR_Nacional/status/1523655753202286592|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220509132750/https://twitter.com/PR_Nacional/status/1523655753202286592|archive-date=2022-05-09|retrieved=2023-09-08|quote=PRN Lanza su Manifiesto Nacional Por la Unidad https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=123963093613994&set=pcb.123963150280655}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|author=PROYECTO RECONSTRUCCION NACIONAL|newspaper=Twitter|title=Twitter|date=2022-05-09|url=https://twitter.com/PR_Nacional/status/1523656291952259072|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220509132949/https://twitter.com/PR_Nacional/status/1523656291952259072|archive-date=2022-05-09|retrieved=2023-09-08|quote=Solamente UNIDOS ayudaremos a constituir una alianza electoral sólida, eficiente, viable y realista.Una alianza que logre conectarse con los sentimientos y aspiraciones de la mayoría de los venezolanos; y conquistar su voto, para que a través de él ganemos las próximas elecciones}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|author=Carlos Fermín|newspaper=Twitter|title=Twitter|date=2022-04-07|url=https://twitter.com/fermincarlos33/status/1512093999879921668|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220407154529/https://twitter.com/fermincarlos33/status/1512093999879921668|archive-date=2022-04-07|retrieved=2023-09-08|quote=*Grupo de noticias*
*Actualizaciones e información en tiempo real*
*PRNacional*
https://chat.whatsapp.com/BpAjtfGvI0O2WqB5nUOGbP}}</ref><gallery>
File:PRN Manifesto 1.jpg|Part 1 of the manifesto of the Venezuelan right-wing nationalist organization PRN founded by Carlos Fermín posted on Facebook on May 9, 2022 and later deleted.
File:PRN Manifesto 2.jpg|Part 2 of the manifesto of the Venezuelan right-wing nationalist organization PRN founded by Carlos Fermín posted on Facebook on May 9, 2022 and later deleted.
File:PRN Manifesto 3.jpg|Part 3 of the manifesto of the Venezuelan right-wing nationalist organization PRN founded by Carlos Fermín posted on Facebook on May 9, 2022 and later deleted.
</gallery>[[File:A letter from the supposed “grassroots” of the PCV.png|alt=A letter from the supposed “grassroots” of the PCV to Diosdado Cabello signed by the mercenaries Zoilo Arostegui, Carlos Fermin and Darío Fermín.|thumb|A letter from the supposed “grassroots” of the PCV to Diosdado Cabello signed by the mercenaries [[Zoilo Arostegui]], Carlos Fermín and [[Darío Fermín]].]]
He is also involved in the political persecution<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=ProleWiki|title=Government political persecution|url=https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Venezuela#Government_political_persecution|retrieved=2023-09-09}}</ref> of the [[Communist Party of Venezuela]] (PCV) promoted by the [[United Socialist Party of Venezuela]] (PSUV), as [[:File:A letter from the supposed “grassroots” of the PCV.png|one of the signatories]] and the head of the handling over of the letter to [[Diosdado Cabello]] calling for the PSUV to intervene in the PCV, in which he pretended to be a grassroot member of the communist party. He later left the public limelight after being succesfully identified by the PCV.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Venezuela|newspaper=Solidnet|title=Plan to assault and intervene in the Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV)|date=2023-04|url=http://www.solidnet.org/.galleries/documents/Dossier-Evidence-Plan-to-Assault-the-PCV.pdf}}</ref>

== References ==
<references />

Carlos Fermín

2023-09-09T17:40:32Z

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{{Infobox politician|name=Carlos Fermín|nationality=Venezuelan|political_orientation=Right wing nationalist}}

[[Carlos Fermín|Carlos José Fermín Márquez]] is the current director of the National Electoral Council (CNE) in Punta de Mata in Monagas, [[Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela|Venezuela]].<sup>[''citation needed'']</sup>

== Controversies ==
[[File:Fermin promoting PRN on Facebook.jpg|alt=Screenshot of Carlos Fermin on May 6, 2022 promoting on Facebook the Venezuelan right-wing nationalist organization PRN which he founded. The post was later deleted.|thumb|Screenshot of Carlos Fermín on May 6, 2022 promoting on Facebook the Venezuelan right-wing nationalist organization PRN which he founded. The post was later deleted.]]
In April 2022, Carlos Fermín alongside with [[Darío Fermín]] formed the movement Proyecto Reconstrucción Nacional (PRN), a [[Right-wing politics|right-wing]] party created with an eye to transform itself into the "only party of the right". He later deleted his posts promoting the PRN on [[Meta Platforms, Inc.|Facebook]] and [[Twitter]].<ref>{{Web citation|author=PROYECTO RECONSTRUCCION NACIONAL|newspaper=Twitter|title=Twitter|date=2022-05-09|url=https://twitter.com/PR_Nacional/status/1523655753202286592|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220509132750/https://twitter.com/PR_Nacional/status/1523655753202286592|archive-date=2022-05-09|retrieved=2023-09-08|quote=PRN Lanza su Manifiesto Nacional Por la Unidad https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=123963093613994&set=pcb.123963150280655}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|author=PROYECTO RECONSTRUCCION NACIONAL|newspaper=Twitter|title=Twitter|date=2022-05-09|url=https://twitter.com/PR_Nacional/status/1523656291952259072|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220509132949/https://twitter.com/PR_Nacional/status/1523656291952259072|archive-date=2022-05-09|retrieved=2023-09-08|quote=Solamente UNIDOS ayudaremos a constituir una alianza electoral sólida, eficiente, viable y realista.Una alianza que logre conectarse con los sentimientos y aspiraciones de la mayoría de los venezolanos; y conquistar su voto, para que a través de él ganemos las próximas elecciones}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|author=Carlos Fermín|newspaper=Twitter|title=Twitter|date=2022-04-07|url=https://twitter.com/fermincarlos33/status/1512093999879921668|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220407154529/https://twitter.com/fermincarlos33/status/1512093999879921668|archive-date=2022-04-07|retrieved=2023-09-08|quote=*Grupo de noticias*
*Actualizaciones e información en tiempo real*
*PRNacional*
https://chat.whatsapp.com/BpAjtfGvI0O2WqB5nUOGbP}}</ref><gallery mode="packed">
File:PRN Manifesto 1.jpg|Part 1 of the manifesto of the Venezuelan right-wing nationalist organization PRN founded by Carlos Fermín posted on Facebook on May 9, 2022 and later deleted.
File:PRN Manifesto 2.jpg|Part 2 of the manifesto of the Venezuelan right-wing nationalist organization PRN founded by Carlos Fermín posted on Facebook on May 9, 2022 and later deleted.
File:PRN Manifesto 3.jpg|Part 3 of the manifesto of the Venezuelan right-wing nationalist organization PRN founded by Carlos Fermín posted on Facebook on May 9, 2022 and later deleted.
</gallery>[[File:A letter from the supposed “grassroots” of the PCV.png|alt=A letter from the supposed “grassroots” of the PCV to Diosdado Cabello signed by the mercenaries Zoilo Arostegui, Carlos Fermin and Darío Fermín.|thumb|A letter from the supposed “grassroots” of the PCV to Diosdado Cabello signed by the mercenaries [[Zoilo Arostegui]], Carlos Fermín and [[Darío Fermín]].]]
He is also involved in the political persecution<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=ProleWiki|title=Government political persecution|url=https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Venezuela#Government_political_persecution|retrieved=2023-09-09}}</ref> of the [[Communist Party of Venezuela]] (PCV) promoted by the [[United Socialist Party of Venezuela]] (PSUV), as [[:File:A letter from the supposed “grassroots” of the PCV.png|one of the signatories]] and the head of the handling over of the letter to [[Diosdado Cabello]] calling for the PSUV to intervene in the PCV, in which he pretended to be a grassroot member of the communist party. He later left the public limelight after being succesfully identified by the PCV.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Venezuela|newspaper=Solidnet|title=Plan to assault and intervene in the Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV)|date=2023-04|url=http://www.solidnet.org/.galleries/documents/Dossier-Evidence-Plan-to-Assault-the-PCV.pdf}}</ref>

== References ==
<references />

Zoilo Arostegui

2023-09-09T17:38:38Z

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{{Infobox politician|name=Zoilo Arostegui|nationality=Venezuelan|political_party=United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV)}}
[[File:Zoilo Arostegui member of the PSUV.png|alt=Screenshot of Zoilo Arostegui's PSUV registration number, proving that he is a member of the party.|thumb|Screenshot of Zoilo Arostegui's PSUV registration number, proving that he is a member of the party.]]
[[Zoilo Arostegui|Zoilo Ramón Arostegui Orozco]] [[:File:Zoilo Arostegui member of the PSUV.png|is a member]] of the [[United Socialist Party of Venezuela]] (PSUV). He belongs to the work team of [[Raúl Brazón]], political coordinator of the regional structure of the PSUV in Monagas.<ref name=":0">{{Web citation|author=Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Venezuela|newspaper=Solidnet|title=Plan to assault and intervene in the Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV)|date=2023-04|url=http://www.solidnet.org/.galleries/documents/Dossier-Evidence-Plan-to-Assault-the-PCV.pdf}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Communist Party of Ireland|title=International News. PSUV holds fake congress to assault the Venezuelan Communist Party|date=2023-05-23|url=https://communistparty.ie/en/2023/05/international-news-psuv-holds-fake-congress-to-assault-the-venezuelan-communist-party/}}</ref>

== Controversies ==
Zoilo Arostegui had a lawsuit open against him (NP01-P-2007-004898) by the commission of physical violence against women. The file mysteriously disappeared.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Tribunal Segundo de control, audiencia y medidas con competencia en materia de Violencia contra la Mujer|newspaper=vLex Venezuela|title=Decisión de Tribunal Segundo de control, audiencia y medidas con competencia en materia de Violencia contra la Mujer de Monagas, de 13 de Septiembre de 2012|date=2012-09-13|url=https://vlexvenezuela.com/vid/ministerio-publico-hirbelis-zoilo-arostegui-398915346}}</ref>
[[File:A letter from the supposed “grassroots” of the PCV.png|alt=A letter from the supposed “grassroots” of the PCV to Diosdado Cabello signed by the mercenaries Zoilo Arostegui, Carlos Fermín and Darío Fermín.|thumb|A letter from the supposed “grassroots” of the PCV to [[Diosdado Cabello]] signed by the mercenaries Zoilo Arostegui, [[Carlos Fermín]] and [[Darío Fermín]].]]
He is also involved in the political persecution<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=ProleWiki|title=Government political persecution|url=https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Venezuela#Government_political_persecution|retrieved=2023-09-09}}</ref> of the [[Communist Party of Venezuela]] (PCV) promoted by the PSUV, as [[:File:A letter from the supposed “grassroots” of the PCV.png|one of the signatories of the letter]] calling for the PSUV to intervene in the PCV, in which he pretended to be a grassroot member of the communist party.<ref name=":0" />

== References ==
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Diosdado Cabello

2023-09-09T17:36:18Z

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{{Infobox politician|name=Diosdado Cabello|birth_date=April 15, 1963|birth_place=Maturín, Monagas, [[Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela|Venezuela]]|nationality=Venezuelan|political_party=[[United Socialist Party of Venezuela|United Socialist Party of Venezuela]] (PSUV)|image=File:Diosdado_Cabello.png}}

[[Diosdado Cabello|Diosdado Cabello Rondón]] (born Maturín, Monagas state; April 15, 1963) is a [[Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela|Venezuelan]] retired military officer and politician. He is a deputy to the [[National Assembly (Venezuela)|Venezuelan National Assembly]] and vice-president of the [[United Socialist Party of Venezuela]] (PSUV), where he previously served as president. He is also an active member of the army, with the rank of captain.

He entered politics after the attempted coup d'état of February 4, 1992. After [[Hugo Chávez]] came to power in February 1999, Cabello held several positions during his government. In January 2002 he was appointed Vice President of the country. From April 13 to 14, 2002, he held the presidency of Venezuela, for approximately 4 hours, after the resignation of the de facto president, [[Pedro Carmona Estanga]], until the restoration of institutionalism, when he handed over power to the constitutional president, Hugo Chávez. He was vice-president of the Republic, occupied several ministries, such as Public Works and Housing, as well as the governorship of Miranda between 2004 and 2008.

Chávez appointed him president of the PSUV in 2011. When Chávez died, he was mentioned as his possible successor, although this did not happen. In 2012 he was elected president of the Venezuelan National Assembly, a position he held until 2016. Between 2018 and 2020, he was the president of Venezuela's National Constituent Assembly. He became a prominent member of Chávez's [[Fifth Republic Movement]] (MVR) and is considered the second most important person within the [[Bolivarian Revolution]].

In 2014, Diosdado Cabello founded his own weekly TV program on [[Venezolana de Televisión]] (VTV), [[Con el Mazo Dando]].

== Controversies ==

=== Political persecution of communists ===
Cabello is one of the protagonists of the the political persecution against the [[Communist Party of Venezuela]] (PCV) promoted by the PSUV.<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=ProleWiki|title=Government political persecution|url=https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Venezuela#Government_political_persecution|retrieved=2023-09-09}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|author=Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Venezuela|newspaper=Solidnet|title=Plan to assault and intervene in the Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV)|date=2023-04|url=http://www.solidnet.org/.galleries/documents/Dossier-Evidence-Plan-to-Assault-the-PCV.pdf}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Communist Party of Ireland|title=International News. PSUV holds fake congress to assault the Venezuelan Communist Party|date=2023-05-23|url=https://communistparty.ie/en/2023/05/international-news-psuv-holds-fake-congress-to-assault-the-venezuelan-communist-party/}}</ref>

In 2021 he began to use his TV program (Con el Mazo Dando) to attack and undermine the PCV, promoting the matrix of a supposed division in the ranks of the communist party and allegeding that the PCV was subordinated to [[Imperialism|imperialist]] plans.<ref>{{Web citation|author=AlbertoRodNews|newspaper=Twitter|title=Twitter video|date=2022-08-31|url=https://twitter.com/i/status/1565138448478003201|quote=ÚLTIMA HORA {{!}} Diosdado Cabello arremete contra la cúpula del PCV: "La actitud de ellos, es la de EEUU y son financiados por el ladrón de Rafael Ramírez"}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Con el Mazo Dando|title=Diosdado Cabello: La actual directiva del PCV tiene el mismo discurso que los gringos|date=2023-03-30|url=https://mazo4f.com/diosdado-cabello-la-actual-directiva-del-pcv-tiene-el-mismo-discurso-que-los-gringos}}</ref>
[[File:A letter from the supposed “grassroots” of the PCV.png|alt=A letter from the supposed “grassroots” of the PCV to Diosdado Cabello signed by the mercenaries Zoilo Arostegui, Carlos Fermín and Darío Fermín.|thumb|A letter from the supposed “grassroots” of the PCV to Diosdado Cabello signed by the mercenaries Zoilo Arostegui, Carlos Fermín and Darío Fermín.]]
In the end of 2021 he received supposed letters of support from "regional organizations of the PCV". In September 2022 [[:File:A letter from the supposed “grassroots” of the PCV.png|one of the letters from individuals claiming to be PCV members was leaked]], it requested the PSUV's intervention in the PCV. However, it was revealed that the signatories ([[Zoilo Arostegui]], [[Carlos Fermín]] and [[Darío Fermín]]) were not PCV members but largely affiliated with the PSUV.

In February 4, 2023 Cabello ordered the public appearance of supposed "PCV grassroots" supporting the government's policies. The PSUV provided logistical and financial support, using individuals who pretended to be PCV members.<ref>{{YouTube citation|url=https://www.youtube.com/live/qm-XDCKdrho?feature=share|channel=Transmisión en vivo|title=Gran Marcha en conmemoración a los 31 años del 4 de febrero|date=2023-02-04}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Con el Mazo Dando|title=Cabello sobre militantes del PCV en marcha del 4-F: ¡Es rebelión contra las cúpulas!|date=2023-02-04|url=https://mazo4f.com/cabello-sobre-militantes-del-pcv-en-marcha-del-4-f-es-rebelion-contra-las-cupulas}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|author=Diosdado Cabello|newspaper=Twitter|title=Twitter|date=2023-02-04|url=https://twitter.com/dcabellor/status/1622032559759626242|quote=#FebreroRebeldeConChávez Rebelión contra las cúpulas que obedecen las órdenes del imperialismo. Nosotros Venceremos!!}}</ref>
[[File:Monaga's State Governor's office supports the event to assault PCV.png|alt=Monagas State Governor's office supports the diffusion of a press conference calling for a “rescue” of the PCV in Monagas State, with the purpose of assaulting PCV in the state.|thumb|Monagas State Governor's office supports the diffusion of a press conference calling for a “rescue” of the PCV in Monagas State, with the purpose of assaulting PCV in the state.]]
The PSUV allocated significant resources for a meeting of these "grassroots" in February 11, 2023, which revealed that the supposed PCV members did not exist, and the PSUV recruited participants from its ranks and state organizations. [[:File:Monaga's State Governor's office supports the event to assault PCV.png|The Governor's Office of the State of Monagas is probably the source of logistical and financial support for the execution of the plan of assault against the PCV]].<ref>{{YouTube citation|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mm3HCLLPCck|channel=Luigino Bracci Roa desde Venezuela|title=Inicia proceso para quitarle al PCV su tarjeta electoral|date=2023-02-12}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|author=Jesús Rafael Zambrano Regional Committee Collective political leadership of the Communist Party of Venezuela in Monagas|newspaper=Tribuna Popular|title=PCV Monagas: ¿Bases del PCV o mercenarios políticos a sueldo del PSUV?|date=2023-02-05|url=https://prensapcv.wordpress.com/2023/02/05/comunicado-pcv-monagas-bases-del-pcv-o-mercenarios-politicos-a-sueldo-del-psuv/}}</ref>

In March 29, 2023 [[:File:Diosdado Cabello greets mercenaries 2.png|Cabello introduced the leaders of the PSUV-recruited "PCV grassroots" on his TV program]], one of the leaders being [[Griseldys Herrera]], confirming that the letters from PCV members were fabricated.<ref>{{YouTube citation|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JZNzki7Xjo|channel=Transmisión en vivo|title=Con El Mazo Dando - Programa 425|date=2023-03-29}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|author=Contraloría Monagas|newspaper=Twitter|title=Twitter|date=2022-11-17|archive-date=https://twitter.com/CEMonagas01/status/1593316334145871873|quote=#17Nov/ Contralor del Estado Monagas y directoras de la #CEM sostuvieron importante encuentro con la Dra. Griseldys Herrera, Consultora Jurídica de @GobMonagas_
donde se abordaron generalidades de las contrataciones públicas adaptadas a los nuevos tiempos.
@CGRVenezuela}}</ref><gallery mode="packed">
File:Diosdado Cabello greets mercenaries 1.png|Diosdado Cabello greets and presents the mercenary heads for the first time on his TV program "Con El Mazo Dando" #425
File:Diosdado Cabello greets mercenaries 2.png|Diosdado Cabello greets and presents the mercenary heads for the first time on his TV program "Con El Mazo Dando" #425
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== References ==
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Diosdado Cabello

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{{Infobox politician|name=Diosdado Cabello|birth_date=April 15, 1963|birth_place=Maturín, Monagas, [[Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela|Venezuela]]|nationality=Venezuelan|political_party=[[United Socialist Party of Venezuela|United Socialist Party of Venezuela]] (PSUV)|image=File:Diosdado_Cabello.png}}

[[Diosdado Cabello|Diosdado Cabello Rondón]] (born Maturín, Monagas state; April 15, 1963) is a [[Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela|Venezuelan]] retired military officer and politician. He is a deputy to the [[National Assembly (Venezuela)|Venezuelan National Assembly]] and vice-president of the [[United Socialist Party of Venezuela]] (PSUV), where he previously served as president. He is also an active member of the army, with the rank of captain.

He entered politics after the attempted coup d'état of February 4, 1992. After [[Hugo Chávez]] came to power in February 1999, Cabello held several positions during his government. In January 2002 he was appointed Vice President of the country. From April 13 to 14, 2002, he held the presidency of Venezuela, for approximately 4 hours, after the resignation of the de facto president, [[Pedro Carmona Estanga]], until the restoration of institutionalism, when he handed over power to the constitutional president, Hugo Chávez. He was vice-president of the Republic, occupied several ministries, such as Public Works and Housing, as well as the governorship of Miranda between 2004 and 2008.

Chávez appointed him president of the PSUV in 2011. When Chávez died, he was mentioned as his possible successor, although this did not happen. In 2012 he was elected president of the Venezuelan National Assembly, a position he held until 2016. Between 2018 and 2020, he was the president of Venezuela's National Constituent Assembly. He became a prominent member of Chávez's [[Fifth Republic Movement]] (MVR) and is considered the second most important person within the [[Bolivarian Revolution]].

In 2014, Diosdado Cabello founded his own weekly TV program on [[Venezolana de Televisión]] (VTV), [[Con el Mazo Dando]].

== Controversies ==

=== Political persecution of communists ===
Cabello is one of the protagonists of the the political persecution against the [[Communist Party of Venezuela]] (PCV) promoted by the PSUV.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Venezuela|newspaper=Solidnet|title=Plan to assault and intervene in the Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV)|date=2023-04|url=http://www.solidnet.org/.galleries/documents/Dossier-Evidence-Plan-to-Assault-the-PCV.pdf}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Communist Party of Ireland|title=International News. PSUV holds fake congress to assault the Venezuelan Communist Party|date=2023-05-23|url=https://communistparty.ie/en/2023/05/international-news-psuv-holds-fake-congress-to-assault-the-venezuelan-communist-party/}}</ref>

In 2021 he began to use his TV program (Con el Mazo Dando) to attack and undermine the PCV, promoting the matrix of a supposed division in the ranks of the communist party and allegeding that the PCV was subordinated to [[Imperialism|imperialist]] plans.<ref>{{Web citation|author=AlbertoRodNews|newspaper=Twitter|title=Twitter video|date=2022-08-31|url=https://twitter.com/i/status/1565138448478003201|quote=ÚLTIMA HORA {{!}} Diosdado Cabello arremete contra la cúpula del PCV: "La actitud de ellos, es la de EEUU y son financiados por el ladrón de Rafael Ramírez"}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Con el Mazo Dando|title=Diosdado Cabello: La actual directiva del PCV tiene el mismo discurso que los gringos|date=2023-03-30|url=https://mazo4f.com/diosdado-cabello-la-actual-directiva-del-pcv-tiene-el-mismo-discurso-que-los-gringos}}</ref>
[[File:A letter from the supposed “grassroots” of the PCV.png|alt=A letter from the supposed “grassroots” of the PCV to Diosdado Cabello signed by the mercenaries Zoilo Arostegui, Carlos Fermín and Darío Fermín.|thumb|A letter from the supposed “grassroots” of the PCV to Diosdado Cabello signed by the mercenaries Zoilo Arostegui, Carlos Fermín and Darío Fermín.]]
In the end of 2021 he received supposed letters of support from "regional organizations of the PCV". In September 2022 [[:File:A letter from the supposed “grassroots” of the PCV.png|one of the letters from individuals claiming to be PCV members was leaked]], it requested the PSUV's intervention in the PCV. However, it was revealed that the signatories ([[Zoilo Arostegui]], [[Carlos Fermín]] and [[Darío Fermín]]) were not PCV members but largely affiliated with the PSUV.

In February 4, 2023 Cabello ordered the public appearance of supposed "PCV grassroots" supporting the government's policies. The PSUV provided logistical and financial support, using individuals who pretended to be PCV members.<ref>{{YouTube citation|url=https://www.youtube.com/live/qm-XDCKdrho?feature=share|channel=Transmisión en vivo|title=Gran Marcha en conmemoración a los 31 años del 4 de febrero|date=2023-02-04}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Con el Mazo Dando|title=Cabello sobre militantes del PCV en marcha del 4-F: ¡Es rebelión contra las cúpulas!|date=2023-02-04|url=https://mazo4f.com/cabello-sobre-militantes-del-pcv-en-marcha-del-4-f-es-rebelion-contra-las-cupulas}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|author=Diosdado Cabello|newspaper=Twitter|title=Twitter|date=2023-02-04|url=https://twitter.com/dcabellor/status/1622032559759626242|quote=#FebreroRebeldeConChávez Rebelión contra las cúpulas que obedecen las órdenes del imperialismo. Nosotros Venceremos!!}}</ref>
[[File:Monaga's State Governor's office supports the event to assault PCV.png|alt=Monagas State Governor's office supports the diffusion of a press conference calling for a “rescue” of the PCV in Monagas State, with the purpose of assaulting PCV in the state.|thumb|Monagas State Governor's office supports the diffusion of a press conference calling for a “rescue” of the PCV in Monagas State, with the purpose of assaulting PCV in the state.]]
The PSUV allocated significant resources for a meeting of these "grassroots" in February 11, 2023, which revealed that the supposed PCV members did not exist, and the PSUV recruited participants from its ranks and state organizations. [[:File:Monaga's State Governor's office supports the event to assault PCV.png|The Governor's Office of the State of Monagas is probably the source of logistical and financial support for the execution of the plan of assault against the PCV]].<ref>{{YouTube citation|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mm3HCLLPCck|channel=Luigino Bracci Roa desde Venezuela|title=Inicia proceso para quitarle al PCV su tarjeta electoral|date=2023-02-12}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|author=Jesús Rafael Zambrano Regional Committee Collective political leadership of the Communist Party of Venezuela in Monagas|newspaper=Tribuna Popular|title=PCV Monagas: ¿Bases del PCV o mercenarios políticos a sueldo del PSUV?|date=2023-02-05|url=https://prensapcv.wordpress.com/2023/02/05/comunicado-pcv-monagas-bases-del-pcv-o-mercenarios-politicos-a-sueldo-del-psuv/}}</ref>

In March 29, 2023 [[:File:Diosdado Cabello greets mercenaries 2.png|Cabello introduced the leaders of the PSUV-recruited "PCV grassroots" on his TV program]], one of the leaders being [[Griseldys Herrera]], confirming that the letters from PCV members were fabricated.<ref>{{YouTube citation|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JZNzki7Xjo|channel=Transmisión en vivo|title=Con El Mazo Dando - Programa 425|date=2023-03-29}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|author=Contraloría Monagas|newspaper=Twitter|title=Twitter|date=2022-11-17|archive-date=https://twitter.com/CEMonagas01/status/1593316334145871873|quote=#17Nov/ Contralor del Estado Monagas y directoras de la #CEM sostuvieron importante encuentro con la Dra. Griseldys Herrera, Consultora Jurídica de @GobMonagas_
donde se abordaron generalidades de las contrataciones públicas adaptadas a los nuevos tiempos.
@CGRVenezuela}}</ref><gallery mode="packed">
File:Diosdado Cabello greets mercenaries 1.png|Diosdado Cabello greets and presents the mercenary heads for the first time on his TV program "Con El Mazo Dando" #425
File:Diosdado Cabello greets mercenaries 2.png|Diosdado Cabello greets and presents the mercenary heads for the first time on his TV program "Con El Mazo Dando" #425
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File:Diosdado Cabello.png

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A picture of [[Diosdado Cabello]].

File:Diosdado Cabello.png

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Communist Party of Venezuela

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{{Infobox political party|name=Communist Party of Venezuela|native_name=Partido Comunista de Venezuela|logo=PCV logo.png|founded=5 March 1931|abbreviation=PCV|general_secretary=[[Óscar Figuera|Óscar Figuera]]|newspaper=''Popular Tribune''|youth_wing=[[Communist Youth of Venezuela|Communist Youth of Venezuela]]|political_orientation=[[Marxism-Leninism]]|international=[[IMCWP]]|slogan=''¡El socialismo sigue siendo la esperanza de los pueblos!''|website=https://prensapcv.wordpress.com/}}{{Communist Parties}}The '''Communist Party of Venezuela''' ('''PCV''') is a [[communist party]] that was born on March 5, 1931, being the oldest contemporary party in [[Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela|Venezuela]]. Being a party of [[Marxism–Leninism|Marxist-Leninist]] ideology, it stands as a party of the [[Proletariat|proletarian class]] in which workers, [[Peasantry|peasants]], [[Revolution|revolutionaries]] and youth converge, in the pursuit of the establishment of a [[Socialism|socialist]] state. In 2020 they separated from the government coalition [[Gran Polo Patriotico]]. It currently opposes the [[Chavismo|Chavista]] government of [[Nicolás Maduro]].<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=[[In Defense of Communism]]|title=Venezuela: New anti-communist attack against the PCV and the workers' movement|date=2022-05-25|url=https://www.idcommunism.com/2022/07/venezuela-new-anti-communist-attack-the-pcv-and-workers-movement.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220806201432/http://www.idcommunism.com/2022/07/venezuela-new-anti-communist-attack-the-pcv-and-workers-movement.html|archive-date=2022-08-06|retrieved=2022-08-10}}</ref>

== Government political persecution ==
[[File:Gobierno incumple acuerdo con PCV - Tribuna Popular 3008.png|alt=An article from the PCV's Central Committee's organ - Tribuna Popular - number 3008 from August 2019 denouncing that the PSUV has not fulfilled the PSUV-PCV Unitary Agreement.|thumb|An article from the PCV's Central Committee's organ - Tribuna Popular - number 3008 from August 2019 denouncing that the PSUV has not fulfilled the PSUV-PCV Unitary Agreement.]]
In 2020 PCV demanded a discussion during the 2020 [[National Assembly (Venezuela)|National Assembly]] elections of the government's agressive anti-worker, anti-popular and [[Liberalism|ultra-liberal]] policies that were being implemented and the [[:File:Gobierno incumple acuerdo con PCV - Tribuna Popular 3008.png|systematic breach]] of the "[[United Socialist Party of Venezuela|PSUV]]-PCV Unitary Framework Agreement" signed in April 2018.<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Tribuna Popular|title=UNITARY AGREEMENT BETWEEN PSUV AND PCV|date=2018-03-02|url=https://prensapcv.wordpress.com/2018/03/02/unitary-agreement-between-psuv-and-pcv/}}</ref> When the government refused to engage in this discussion, the PCV decided to pursue an alternative popular and revolutionary path. This event signaled the beginning of the persecution of the PCV.

The assault on the PCV has involved various stages, including an attempt to disrupt the PCV's 16th National Congress in November of the previous year. When that failed and the PCV remained cohesive, the next phase involved the venezuelan government trying to recruit PCV members with offers of incentives, including jobs, money, food, houses, and vehicles, but these attempts were rejected.

In response to the failure of recruitment efforts, the government of Nicolás Maduro orchestrated a fraudulent event on May 21st, 2023 with the aim of undermining the legitimate decision-making processes within the PCV. The Secretary-General of the Central Committee of the PCV, [[Óscar Figuera]], accused Maduro of attempting to use administrative or judicial measures to align the PCV with his [[Neoliberalism|neoliberal]] policies.

The leadership of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) held a fraudulent congress with a presidium consisting of individuals not affiliated with the PCV to promote intervention in the communist party. This congress was widely seen as illegitimate and was seen as part of a plan to weaken the PCV after it distanced itself from the anti-worker policies of the Maduro government, as explained by Figuera in a press statement.

Figuera explained that this action aimed to prevent the PCV from continuing its role as a [[Social class|class-based]] force serving the Venezuelan people and the working class. It also sought to impede the PCV's efforts to promote unity of action among workers and strengthen the organization and struggle of the Venezuelan people.

Despite these challenges, the PCV expressed gratitude for the solidarity it has received from the Venezuelan people, organizations, intellectuals, revolutionary movements, and international communist and workers' parties. The PCV pledged to continue its role in supporting and advancing the [[Class struggle|struggles]] of the Venezuelan people, regardless of actions taken by those in power.<ref name=":0">{{Web citation|newspaper=Tribuna Popular|title=Gobierno intenta crear un falso PCV subordinado a su política neoliberal|date=2023-05-22|url=https://prensapcv.wordpress.com/2023/05/22/video-gobierno-intenta-crear-un-falso-pcv-subordinado-a-su-politica-neoliberal/}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{YouTube citation|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnsV8nce8ic|channel=Partido Comunista de Venezuela|title=Gobierno de Maduro intenta crear un falso PCV subordinado a su política neoliberal|date=2023-05-22}}</ref>

=== Sequence of events ===
In a dossier that has been translated and made available on Solidnet,<ref>{{Web citation|author=Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Venezuela|newspaper=Solidnet|title=Plan to assault and intervene in the Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV)|date=2023-04|url=http://www.solidnet.org/.galleries/documents/Dossier-Evidence-Plan-to-Assault-the-PCV.pdf}}</ref> the official website of the [[International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties]] (IMCWP), the PCV has made available a sequence of events that contains in detail and with ample evidence the plan orchestrated by the PSUV to assault and intervene in the communist party.

==== 2021 ====
[[Diosdado Cabello]], vice-president of the PSUV (United Socialist Party of Venezuela), used his TV program to attack the PCV (Communist Party of Venezuela) and alleged that the PCV was subordinated to [[Imperialism|imperialist]] plans.<ref>{{Web citation|author=AlbertoRodNews|newspaper=Twitter|title=Twitter video|date=2022-08-31|url=https://twitter.com/i/status/1565138448478003201|quote=ÚLTIMA HORA {{!}} Diosdado Cabello arremete contra la cúpula del PCV: "La actitud de ellos, es la de EEUU y son financiados por el ladrón de Rafael Ramírez"}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Con el Mazo Dando|title=Diosdado Cabello: La actual directiva del PCV tiene el mismo discurso que los gringos|date=2023-03-30|url=https://mazo4f.com/diosdado-cabello-la-actual-directiva-del-pcv-tiene-el-mismo-discurso-que-los-gringos}}</ref>

==== End of 2021 ====
Cabello began implementing the first phase of the PSUV's plan to undermine the PCV. He propagated the false narrative of divisions within the PCV and received supposed letters of support from "regional organizations of the PCV".

==== September 2022 ====
[[File:A letter from the supposed “grassroots” of the PCV.png|alt=A letter from the supposed “grassroots” of the PCV to Diosdado Cabello signed by the mercenaries Zoilo Arostegui, Carlos Fermín and Darío Fermín.|thumb|A letter from the supposed “grassroots” of the PCV to Diosdado Cabello signed by the mercenaries Zoilo Arostegui, Carlos Fermín and Darío Fermín.]]
[[:File:A letter from the supposed “grassroots” of the PCV.png|One of the leaked letters from individuals claiming to be PCV members]] requested the PSUV's intervention in the PCV. However, it was revealed that the signatories ([[Zoilo Arostegui]], [[Carlos Fermín]] and [[Darío Fermín]]) were not PCV members but largely affiliated with the PSUV.

==== November 2022 ====
The 16th National Congress of the PCV solidified the party's unity against the government's policies. This prompted the PSUV to accelerate a second phase of its plan to intervene in the PCV.

==== February 4, 2023 ====
Cabello ordered the public appearance of supposed "PCV grassroots" supporting the government's policies. The PSUV provided logistical and financial support, using individuals who pretended to be PCV members.<ref>{{YouTube citation|url=https://www.youtube.com/live/qm-XDCKdrho?feature=share|channel=Transmisión en vivo|title=Gran Marcha en conmemoración a los 31 años del 4 de febrero|date=2023-02-04}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Con el Mazo Dando|title=Cabello sobre militantes del PCV en marcha del 4-F: ¡Es rebelión contra las cúpulas!|date=2023-02-04|url=https://mazo4f.com/cabello-sobre-militantes-del-pcv-en-marcha-del-4-f-es-rebelion-contra-las-cupulas}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|author=Diosdado Cabello|newspaper=Twitter|title=Twitter|date=2023-02-04|url=https://twitter.com/dcabellor/status/1622032559759626242|quote=#FebreroRebeldeConChávez Rebelión contra las cúpulas que obedecen las órdenes del imperialismo. Nosotros Venceremos!!}}</ref>

==== February 11, 2023 ====
[[File:Monaga's State Governor's office supports the event to assault PCV.png|alt=Monagas State Governor's office supports the diffusion of a press conference calling for a “rescue” of the PCV in Monagas State, with the purpose of assaulting PCV in the state.|thumb|Monagas State Governor's office supports the diffusion of a press conference calling for a “rescue” of the PCV in Monagas State, with the purpose of assaulting PCV in the state.]]
The PSUV allocated significant resources for a meeting of these "grassroots," which revealed that the supposed PCV members did not exist, and the PSUV recruited participants from its ranks and state organizations. [[:File:Monaga's State Governor's office supports the event to assault PCV.png|The Governor's Office of the State of Monagas is probably the source of logistical and financial support for the execution of the plan of assault against the PCV]].<ref>{{YouTube citation|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mm3HCLLPCck|channel=Luigino Bracci Roa desde Venezuela|title=Inicia proceso para quitarle al PCV su tarjeta electoral|date=2023-02-12}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|author=Jesús Rafael Zambrano Regional Committee Collective political leadership of the Communist Party of Venezuela in Monagas|newspaper=Tribuna Popular|title=PCV Monagas: ¿Bases del PCV o mercenarios políticos a sueldo del PSUV?|date=2023-02-05|url=https://prensapcv.wordpress.com/2023/02/05/comunicado-pcv-monagas-bases-del-pcv-o-mercenarios-politicos-a-sueldo-del-psuv/}}</ref>

==== March 15, 2023 ====
[[File:Audio revealing the plan to assault the PCV.mp3|thumb|Audio from PSUV MP [[Jesús Farías]] revealing the plan to assault the PCV.]]
An [[:File:Audio revealing the plan to assault the PCV.mp3|audio leak from a PSUV leader]] confirmed the PSUV's role in the plan to intervene in the PCV.<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Tribuna Popular|title=Continúa plan para asaltar al PCV: audio de Jesús Faría Tortosa reveló próximas maniobras|date=2023-02-11|url=https://prensapcv.wordpress.com/2023/03/11/continua-plan-para-asaltar-al-pcv-audio-de-jesus-faria-tortosa-revelo-proximas-maniobras/}}</ref>

==== March 18, 2023 ====
[[File:Mercenaries attending the fraudulent assembly in Barinas.png|alt=Mercenaries attending the fraudulent assembly organized by the PSUV in Barinas that was part of the plan to take over the PCV and hand it to PSUV loyalists.|thumb|Mercenaries attending the fraudulent assembly organized by the PSUV in Barinas that was part of the plan to take over the PCV and hand it to PSUV loyalists.]]
An [[:File:Mercenaries attending the fraudulent assembly in Barinas.png|assembly in Barinas]] exposed that the PSUV was orchestrating the plan to take over the PCV and hand it to PSUV loyalists.<ref>{{Web citation|author=soy Carito Carito|newspaper=Twitter|title=Twitter video|date=2023-03-15|url=https://twitter.com/i/status/1636176780296855553}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|author=Sebastiana Barráez|newspaper=Infobae|title=Un dirigente de Barinas denuncia: “El gobierno nacional está buscado asaltar de facto la dirección del Partido Comunista”|date=2023-03-15|url=https://www.infobae.com/venezuela/2023/03/15/un-dirigente-de-barinas-denuncia-el-gobierno-nacional-esta-buscado-asaltar-de-facto-la-direccion-del-partido-comunista/}}</ref>

==== March 29, 2023 ====
[[:File:Diosdado Cabello greets mercenaries 2.png|Cabello introduced the leaders of the PSUV-recruited "PCV grassroots" on his TV program]], one of the leaders being [[Griseldys Herrera]], confirming that the letters from PCV members were fabricated.<ref>{{YouTube citation|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JZNzki7Xjo|channel=Transmisión en vivo|title=Con El Mazo Dando - Programa 425|date=2023-03-29}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|author=Contraloría Monagas|newspaper=Twitter|title=Twitter|date=2022-11-17|url=https://twitter.com/CEMonagas01/status/1593316334145871873|quote=#17Nov/ Contralor del Estado Monagas y directoras de la #CEM sostuvieron importante encuentro con la Dra. Griseldys Herrera, Consultora Jurídica de @GobMonagas_
donde se abordaron generalidades de las contrataciones públicas adaptadas a los nuevos tiempos.
@CGRVenezuela}}</ref><gallery mode="packed">
File:Diosdado Cabello greets mercenaries 1.png|Diosdado Cabello greets and presents the mercenary heads for the first time on his TV program "Con El Mazo Dando" #425
File:Diosdado Cabello greets mercenaries 2.png|Diosdado Cabello greets and presents the mercenary heads for the first time on his TV program "Con El Mazo Dando" #425
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==== April 15, 2023 ====
Mercenaries, including a former PCV member, [[Henry Parra]], held a press conference. They were not genuine PCV members and held positions in various state institutions.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Diario del Pueblo|newspaper=Instagram|title=Instagram video|date=2023-04-15|url=https://www.instagram.com/reel/CrEcQU2syME/}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|author=Partido Comunista de Venezuela|newspaper=Twitter|title=Twitter video|date=2021-11-14|url=https://twitter.com/PCV_Venezuela/status/1459951244815044615|quote=Declaración del Comité Regional del PCV en #Táchira:

El pronunciamiento de Henry Parra y Jaime Otero de apoyar las candidaturas del PSUV no representa la línea política del Partido Comunista de Venezuela.}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|author=Favio Hernández|newspaper=Diario La Nación|title=El “Gallo” Parra y Jaime Otero fueron expulsados del PCV|date=2021-11-13|url=https://lanacionweb.com/politica/el-gallo-parra-y-jaime-otero-fueron-expulsados-del-pcv/}}</ref>

==== May 21, 2023 ====
The leadership of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) held a fraudulent congress with a presidium consisting of individuals not affiliated with the PCV to promote intervention in the communist party with the aim of undermining the legitimate decision-making processes.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" />

==== August 18, 2023 ====
The Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice admitted a motion for legal protection filed by a group of political operators led by the leadership of the PSUV to take by assault the PCV. Through ruling 1160, the Supreme Court appointed an ad hoc board made up of citizens who have nothing to do with the Communist Party of Venezuela.<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Tribuna Popular|title=Documentos clave del asalto judicial ejecutado por el Gobierno de Nicolás Maduro contra el PCV|date=2023-08-18|url=https://prensapcv.wordpress.com/2023/08/18/pdf-documentos-clave-del-asalto-judicial-ejecutado-por-el-gobierno-de-nicolas-maduro-contra-el-pcv/}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Tribuna Popular|title=Documentos clave del asalto judicial ejecutado por el Gobierno de Nicolás Maduro contra el PCV (PDF file)|date=2023-08-18|url=https://prensapcv.files.wordpress.com/2023/08/anexos_para_-el_-analisis-y-discusion-1.pdf}}</ref>

== References ==
[[Category:Communist parties]]
<references />

== External links ==

* [https://prensapcv.wordpress.com/ Tribuna Popular], Newsletter of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Venezuela
* [http://www.solidnet.org Solidnet], official website of the [[International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties]] (IMCWP)

Communist Party of Venezuela

2023-09-09T02:35:18Z

Andassol: Fixed Carlos Fermín's name

{{Infobox political party|name=Communist Party of Venezuela|native_name=Partido Comunista de Venezuela|logo=PCV logo.png|founded=5 March 1931|abbreviation=PCV|general_secretary=[[Óscar Figuera|Óscar Figuera]]|newspaper=''Popular Tribune''|youth_wing=[[Communist Youth of Venezuela|Communist Youth of Venezuela]]|political_orientation=[[Marxism-Leninism]]|international=[[IMCWP]]|slogan=''¡El socialismo sigue siendo la esperanza de los pueblos!''|website=https://prensapcv.wordpress.com/}}{{Communist Parties}}The '''Communist Party of Venezuela''' ('''PCV''') is a [[communist party]] that was born on March 5, 1931, being the oldest contemporary party in [[Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela|Venezuela]]. Being a party of [[Marxism–Leninism|Marxist-Leninist]] ideology, it stands as a party of the [[Proletariat|proletarian class]] in which workers, [[Peasantry|peasants]], [[Revolution|revolutionaries]] and youth converge, in the pursuit of the establishment of a [[Socialism|socialist]] state. In 2020 they separated from the government coalition [[Gran Polo Patriotico]]. It currently opposes the [[Chavismo|Chavista]] government of [[Nicolás Maduro]].<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=[[In Defense of Communism]]|title=Venezuela: New anti-communist attack against the PCV and the workers' movement|date=2022-05-25|url=https://www.idcommunism.com/2022/07/venezuela-new-anti-communist-attack-the-pcv-and-workers-movement.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220806201432/http://www.idcommunism.com/2022/07/venezuela-new-anti-communist-attack-the-pcv-and-workers-movement.html|archive-date=2022-08-06|retrieved=2022-08-10}}</ref>

== Government political persecution ==
[[File:Gobierno incumple acuerdo con PCV - Tribuna Popular 3008.png|alt=An article from the PCV's Central Committee's organ - Tribuna Popular - number 3008 from August 2019 denouncing that the PSUV has not fulfilled the PSUV-PCV Unitary Agreement.|thumb|An article from the PCV's Central Committee's organ - Tribuna Popular - number 3008 from August 2019 denouncing that the PSUV has not fulfilled the PSUV-PCV Unitary Agreement.]]
In 2020 PCV demanded a discussion during the 2020 [[National Assembly (Venezuela)|National Assembly]] elections of the government's agressive anti-worker, anti-popular and [[Liberalism|ultra-liberal]] policies that were being implemented and the [[:File:Gobierno incumple acuerdo con PCV - Tribuna Popular 3008.png|systematic breach]] of the "[[United Socialist Party of Venezuela|PSUV]]-PCV Unitary Framework Agreement" signed in April 2018.<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Tribuna Popular|title=UNITARY AGREEMENT BETWEEN PSUV AND PCV|date=2018-03-02|url=https://prensapcv.wordpress.com/2018/03/02/unitary-agreement-between-psuv-and-pcv/}}</ref> When the government refused to engage in this discussion, the PCV decided to pursue an alternative popular and revolutionary path. This event signaled the beginning of the persecution of the PCV.

The assault on the PCV has involved various stages, including an attempt to disrupt the PCV's 16th National Congress in November of the previous year. When that failed and the PCV remained cohesive, the next phase involved the venezuelan government trying to recruit PCV members with offers of incentives, including jobs, money, food, houses, and vehicles, but these attempts were rejected.

In response to the failure of recruitment efforts, the government of Nicolás Maduro orchestrated a fraudulent event on May 21st, 2023 with the aim of undermining the legitimate decision-making processes within the PCV. The Secretary-General of the Central Committee of the PCV, [[Óscar Figuera]], accused Maduro of attempting to use administrative or judicial measures to align the PCV with his [[Neoliberalism|neoliberal]] policies.

The leadership of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) held a fraudulent congress with a presidium consisting of individuals not affiliated with the PCV to promote intervention in the communist party. This congress was widely seen as illegitimate and was seen as part of a plan to weaken the PCV after it distanced itself from the anti-worker policies of the Maduro government, as explained by Figuera in a press statement.

Figuera explained that this action aimed to prevent the PCV from continuing its role as a [[Social class|class-based]] force serving the Venezuelan people and the working class. It also sought to impede the PCV's efforts to promote unity of action among workers and strengthen the organization and struggle of the Venezuelan people.

Despite these challenges, the PCV expressed gratitude for the solidarity it has received from the Venezuelan people, organizations, intellectuals, revolutionary movements, and international communist and workers' parties. The PCV pledged to continue its role in supporting and advancing the [[Class struggle|struggles]] of the Venezuelan people, regardless of actions taken by those in power.<ref name=":0">{{Web citation|newspaper=Tribuna Popular|title=Gobierno intenta crear un falso PCV subordinado a su política neoliberal|date=2023-05-22|url=https://prensapcv.wordpress.com/2023/05/22/video-gobierno-intenta-crear-un-falso-pcv-subordinado-a-su-politica-neoliberal/}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{YouTube citation|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnsV8nce8ic|channel=Partido Comunista de Venezuela|title=Gobierno de Maduro intenta crear un falso PCV subordinado a su política neoliberal|date=2023-05-22}}</ref>

=== Sequence of events ===
In a dossier that has been translated and made available on Solidnet,<ref>{{Web citation|author=Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Venezuela|newspaper=Solidnet|title=Plan to assault and intervene in the Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV)|date=2023-04|url=http://www.solidnet.org/.galleries/documents/Dossier-Evidence-Plan-to-Assault-the-PCV.pdf}}</ref> the official website of the [[International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties]] (IMCWP), the PCV has made available a sequence of events that contains in detail and with ample evidence the plan orchestrated by the PSUV to assault and intervene in the communist party.

==== 2021 ====
[[Diosdado Cabello]], vice-president of the PSUV (United Socialist Party of Venezuela), used his TV program to attack the PCV (Communist Party of Venezuela) and alleged that the PCV was subordinated to [[Imperialism|imperialist]] plans.<ref>{{Web citation|author=AlbertoRodNews|newspaper=Twitter|title=Twitter video|date=2022-08-31|url=https://twitter.com/i/status/1565138448478003201|quote=ÚLTIMA HORA {{!}} Diosdado Cabello arremete contra la cúpula del PCV: "La actitud de ellos, es la de EEUU y son financiados por el ladrón de Rafael Ramírez"}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Con el Mazo Dando|title=Diosdado Cabello: La actual directiva del PCV tiene el mismo discurso que los gringos|date=2023-03-30|url=https://mazo4f.com/diosdado-cabello-la-actual-directiva-del-pcv-tiene-el-mismo-discurso-que-los-gringos}}</ref>

==== End of 2021 ====
Cabello began implementing the first phase of the PSUV's plan to undermine the PCV. He propagated the false narrative of divisions within the PCV and received supposed letters of support from "regional organizations of the PCV".

==== September 2022 ====
[[File:A letter from the supposed “grassroots” of the PCV.png|alt=A letter from the supposed “grassroots” of the PCV to Diosdado Cabello signed by the mercenaries Zoilo Arostegui, Carlos Fermín and Darío Fermín.|thumb|A letter from the supposed “grassroots” of the PCV to Diosdado Cabello signed by the mercenaries Zoilo Arostegui, Carlos Fermín and Darío Fermín.]]
[[:File:A letter from the supposed “grassroots” of the PCV.png|One of the leaked letters from individuals claiming to be PCV members]] requested the PSUV's intervention in the PCV. However, it was revealed that the signatories ([[Zoilo Arostegui]], [[Carlos Fermín]] and [[Darío Fermín]]) were not PCV members but largely affiliated with the PSUV.

==== November 2022 ====
The 16th National Congress of the PCV solidified the party's unity against the government's policies. This prompted the PSUV to accelerate a second phase of its plan to intervene in the PCV.

==== February 4, 2023 ====
Cabello ordered the public appearance of supposed "PCV grassroots" supporting the government's policies. The PSUV provided logistical and financial support, using individuals who pretended to be PCV members.<ref>{{YouTube citation|url=https://www.youtube.com/live/qm-XDCKdrho?feature=share|channel=Transmisión en vivo|title=Gran Marcha en conmemoración a los 31 años del 4 de febrero|date=2023-02-04}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Con el Mazo Dando|title=Cabello sobre militantes del PCV en marcha del 4-F: ¡Es rebelión contra las cúpulas!|date=2023-02-04|url=https://mazo4f.com/cabello-sobre-militantes-del-pcv-en-marcha-del-4-f-es-rebelion-contra-las-cupulas}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|author=Diosdado Cabello|newspaper=Twitter|title=Twitter|date=2023-02-04|url=https://twitter.com/dcabellor/status/1622032559759626242|quote=#FebreroRebeldeConChávez Rebelión contra las cúpulas que obedecen las órdenes del imperialismo. Nosotros Venceremos!!}}</ref>

==== February 11, 2023 ====
[[File:Monaga's State Governor's office supports the event to assault PCV.png|alt=Monagas State Governor's office supports the diffusion of a press conference calling for a “rescue” of the PCV in Monagas State, with the purpose of assaulting PCV in the state.|thumb|Monagas State Governor's office supports the diffusion of a press conference calling for a “rescue” of the PCV in Monagas State, with the purpose of assaulting PCV in the state.]]
The PSUV allocated significant resources for a meeting of these "grassroots," which revealed that the supposed PCV members did not exist, and the PSUV recruited participants from its ranks and state organizations. [[:File:Monaga's State Governor's office supports the event to assault PCV.png|The Governor's Office of the State of Monagas is probably the source of logistical and financial support for the execution of the plan of assault against the PCV]].<ref>{{YouTube citation|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mm3HCLLPCck|channel=Luigino Bracci Roa desde Venezuela|title=Inicia proceso para quitarle al PCV su tarjeta electoral|date=2023-02-12}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|author=Jesús Rafael Zambrano Regional Committee Collective political leadership of the Communist Party of Venezuela in Monagas|newspaper=Tribuna Popular|title=PCV Monagas: ¿Bases del PCV o mercenarios políticos a sueldo del PSUV?|date=2023-02-05|url=https://prensapcv.wordpress.com/2023/02/05/comunicado-pcv-monagas-bases-del-pcv-o-mercenarios-politicos-a-sueldo-del-psuv/}}</ref>

==== March 15, 2023 ====
[[File:Audio revealing the plan to assault the PCV.mp3|thumb|Audio from PSUV MP [[Jesús Farías]] revealing the plan to assault the PCV.]]
An [[:File:Audio revealing the plan to assault the PCV.mp3|audio leak from a PSUV leader]] confirmed the PSUV's role in the plan to intervene in the PCV.<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Tribuna Popular|title=Continúa plan para asaltar al PCV: audio de Jesús Faría Tortosa reveló próximas maniobras|date=2023-02-11|url=https://prensapcv.wordpress.com/2023/03/11/continua-plan-para-asaltar-al-pcv-audio-de-jesus-faria-tortosa-revelo-proximas-maniobras/}}</ref>

==== March 18, 2023 ====
[[File:Mercenaries attending the fraudulent assembly in Barinas.png|alt=Mercenaries attending the fraudulent assembly organized by the PSUV in Barinas that was part of the plan to take over the PCV and hand it to PSUV loyalists.|thumb|Mercenaries attending the fraudulent assembly organized by the PSUV in Barinas that was part of the plan to take over the PCV and hand it to PSUV loyalists.]]
An [[:File:Mercenaries attending the fraudulent assembly in Barinas.png|assembly in Barinas]] exposed that the PSUV was orchestrating the plan to take over the PCV and hand it to PSUV loyalists.<ref>{{Web citation|author=soy Carito Carito|newspaper=Twitter|title=Twitter video|date=2023-03-15|url=https://twitter.com/i/status/1636176780296855553}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|author=Sebastiana Barráez|newspaper=Infobae|title=Un dirigente de Barinas denuncia: “El gobierno nacional está buscado asaltar de facto la dirección del Partido Comunista”|date=2023-03-15|url=https://www.infobae.com/venezuela/2023/03/15/un-dirigente-de-barinas-denuncia-el-gobierno-nacional-esta-buscado-asaltar-de-facto-la-direccion-del-partido-comunista/}}</ref>

==== March 29, 2023 ====
[[:File:Diosdado Cabello greets mercenaries 2.png|Cabello introduced the leaders of the PSUV-recruited "PCV grassroots" on his TV program]], one of the leaders being [[Griseldys Herrera]], confirming that the letters from PCV members were fabricated.<ref>{{YouTube citation|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JZNzki7Xjo|channel=Transmisión en vivo|title=Con El Mazo Dando - Programa 425|date=2023-03-29}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|author=Contraloría Monagas|newspaper=Twitter|title=Twitter|date=2022-11-17|url=https://twitter.com/CEMonagas01/status/1593316334145871873|quote=#17Nov/ Contralor del Estado Monagas y directoras de la #CEM sostuvieron importante encuentro con la Dra. Griseldys Herrera, Consultora Jurídica de @GobMonagas_
donde se abordaron generalidades de las contrataciones públicas adaptadas a los nuevos tiempos.
@CGRVenezuela}}</ref><gallery mode="packed-overlay">
File:Diosdado Cabello greets mercenaries 1.png|Diosdado Cabello greets and presents the mercenary heads for the first time on his TV program "Con El Mazo Dando" #425
File:Diosdado Cabello greets mercenaries 2.png|Diosdado Cabello greets and presents the mercenary heads for the first time on his TV program "Con El Mazo Dando" #425
</gallery>

==== April 15, 2023 ====
Mercenaries, including a former PCV member, [[Henry Parra]], held a press conference. They were not genuine PCV members and held positions in various state institutions.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Diario del Pueblo|newspaper=Instagram|title=Instagram video|date=2023-04-15|url=https://www.instagram.com/reel/CrEcQU2syME/}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|author=Partido Comunista de Venezuela|newspaper=Twitter|title=Twitter video|date=2021-11-14|url=https://twitter.com/PCV_Venezuela/status/1459951244815044615|quote=Declaración del Comité Regional del PCV en #Táchira:

El pronunciamiento de Henry Parra y Jaime Otero de apoyar las candidaturas del PSUV no representa la línea política del Partido Comunista de Venezuela.}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|author=Favio Hernández|newspaper=Diario La Nación|title=El “Gallo” Parra y Jaime Otero fueron expulsados del PCV|date=2021-11-13|url=https://lanacionweb.com/politica/el-gallo-parra-y-jaime-otero-fueron-expulsados-del-pcv/}}</ref>

==== May 21, 2023 ====
The leadership of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) held a fraudulent congress with a presidium consisting of individuals not affiliated with the PCV to promote intervention in the communist party with the aim of undermining the legitimate decision-making processes.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" />

==== August 18, 2023 ====
The Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice admitted a motion for legal protection filed by a group of political operators led by the leadership of the PSUV to take by assault the PCV. Through ruling 1160, the Supreme Court appointed an ad hoc board made up of citizens who have nothing to do with the Communist Party of Venezuela.<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Tribuna Popular|title=Documentos clave del asalto judicial ejecutado por el Gobierno de Nicolás Maduro contra el PCV|date=2023-08-18|url=https://prensapcv.wordpress.com/2023/08/18/pdf-documentos-clave-del-asalto-judicial-ejecutado-por-el-gobierno-de-nicolas-maduro-contra-el-pcv/}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Tribuna Popular|title=Documentos clave del asalto judicial ejecutado por el Gobierno de Nicolás Maduro contra el PCV (PDF file)|date=2023-08-18|url=https://prensapcv.files.wordpress.com/2023/08/anexos_para_-el_-analisis-y-discusion-1.pdf}}</ref>

== References ==
[[Category:Communist parties]]
<references />

== External links ==

* [https://prensapcv.wordpress.com/ Tribuna Popular], Newsletter of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Venezuela
* [http://www.solidnet.org Solidnet], official website of the [[International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties]] (IMCWP)

File:PRN Manifesto 3.jpg

2023-09-09T02:28:30Z

Andassol: Fixed name

Part 3 of the manifesto of the [[Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela|Venezuelan]] [[Right-wing politics|right-wing]] nationalist organization PRN founded by [[Carlos Fermín]] posted on [[Meta Platforms, Inc.|Facebook]] on May 9, 2022 and later deleted. See also [[:File:PRN Manifesto 1.jpg|part 1]] and [[:File:PRN Manifesto 2.jpg|part 2]].

File:PRN Manifesto 2.jpg

2023-09-09T02:28:01Z

Andassol: Fixed name

Part 2 of the manifesto of the [[Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela|Venezuelan]] [[Right-wing politics|right-wing]] nationalist organization PRN founded by [[Carlos Fermín]] posted on [[Meta Platforms, Inc.|Facebook]] on May 9, 2022 and later deleted. See also [[:File:PRN Manifesto 1.jpg|part 1]] and [[:File:PRN Manifesto 3.jpg|part 3]].

File:PRN Manifesto 1.jpg

2023-09-09T02:27:22Z

Andassol: Fixed name

Part 1 of the manifesto of the [[Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela|Venezuelan]] [[Right-wing politics|right-wing]] nationalist organization PRN founded by [[Carlos Fermín]] posted on [[Meta Platforms, Inc.|Facebook]] on May 9, 2022 and later deleted. See also [[:File:PRN Manifesto 2.jpg|part 2]] and [[:File:PRN Manifesto 3.jpg|part 3]].

Carlos Fermín

2023-09-09T02:26:41Z

Andassol: Fixed name in gallery

{{Infobox politician|name=Carlos Fermín|nationality=Venezuelan|political_orientation=Right wing nationalist}}

[[Carlos Fermín|Carlos José Fermín Márquez]] is the current director of the National Electoral Council (CNE) in Punta de Mata in Monagas, [[Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela|Venezuela]].<sup>[''citation needed'']</sup>

== Controversies ==
[[File:Fermin promoting PRN on Facebook.jpg|alt=Screenshot of Carlos Fermin on May 6, 2022 promoting on Facebook the Venezuelan right-wing nationalist organization PRN which he founded. The post was later deleted.|thumb|Screenshot of Carlos Fermín on May 6, 2022 promoting on Facebook the Venezuelan right-wing nationalist organization PRN which he founded. The post was later deleted.]]
In April 2022, Carlos Fermín alongside with [[Darío Fermín]] formed the movement Proyecto Reconstrucción Nacional (PRN), a [[Right-wing politics|right-wing]] party created with an eye to transform itself into the "only party of the right". He later deleted his posts promoting the PRN on [[Meta Platforms, Inc.|Facebook]] and [[Twitter]].<ref>{{Web citation|author=PROYECTO RECONSTRUCCION NACIONAL|newspaper=Twitter|title=Twitter|date=2022-05-09|url=https://twitter.com/PR_Nacional/status/1523655753202286592|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220509132750/https://twitter.com/PR_Nacional/status/1523655753202286592|archive-date=2022-05-09|retrieved=2023-09-08|quote=PRN Lanza su Manifiesto Nacional Por la Unidad https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=123963093613994&set=pcb.123963150280655}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|author=PROYECTO RECONSTRUCCION NACIONAL|newspaper=Twitter|title=Twitter|date=2022-05-09|url=https://twitter.com/PR_Nacional/status/1523656291952259072|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220509132949/https://twitter.com/PR_Nacional/status/1523656291952259072|archive-date=2022-05-09|retrieved=2023-09-08|quote=Solamente UNIDOS ayudaremos a constituir una alianza electoral sólida, eficiente, viable y realista.Una alianza que logre conectarse con los sentimientos y aspiraciones de la mayoría de los venezolanos; y conquistar su voto, para que a través de él ganemos las próximas elecciones}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|author=Carlos Fermín|newspaper=Twitter|title=Twitter|date=2022-04-07|url=https://twitter.com/fermincarlos33/status/1512093999879921668|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220407154529/https://twitter.com/fermincarlos33/status/1512093999879921668|archive-date=2022-04-07|retrieved=2023-09-08|quote=*Grupo de noticias*
*Actualizaciones e información en tiempo real*
*PRNacional*
https://chat.whatsapp.com/BpAjtfGvI0O2WqB5nUOGbP}}</ref><gallery mode="packed-overlay">
File:PRN Manifesto 1.jpg|Part 1 of the manifesto of the Venezuelan right-wing nationalist organization PRN founded by Carlos Fermín posted on Facebook on May 9, 2022 and later deleted.
File:PRN Manifesto 2.jpg|Part 2 of the manifesto of the Venezuelan right-wing nationalist organization PRN founded by Carlos Fermín posted on Facebook on May 9, 2022 and later deleted.
File:PRN Manifesto 3.jpg|Part 3 of the manifesto of the Venezuelan right-wing nationalist organization PRN founded by Carlos Fermín posted on Facebook on May 9, 2022 and later deleted.
</gallery>[[File:A letter from the supposed “grassroots” of the PCV.png|alt=A letter from the supposed “grassroots” of the PCV to Diosdado Cabello signed by the mercenaries Zoilo Arostegui, Carlos Fermin and Darío Fermín.|thumb|A letter from the supposed “grassroots” of the PCV to Diosdado Cabello signed by the mercenaries [[Zoilo Arostegui]], Carlos Fermín and [[Darío Fermín]].]]
He is also involved in the political persecution of the [[Communist Party of Venezuela]] (PCV) promoted by the [[United Socialist Party of Venezuela]] (PSUV), as [[:File:A letter from the supposed “grassroots” of the PCV.png|one of the signatories]] and the head of the handling over of the letter to [[Diosdado Cabello]] calling for the PSUV to intervene in the PCV, in which he pretended to be a grassroot member of the communist party. He later left the public limelight after being succesfully identified by the PCV.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Venezuela|newspaper=Solidnet|title=Plan to assault and intervene in the Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV)|date=2023-04|url=http://www.solidnet.org/.galleries/documents/Dossier-Evidence-Plan-to-Assault-the-PCV.pdf}}</ref>

== References ==
<references />

Carlos Fermín

2023-09-09T02:25:35Z

Andassol: Fixed name

{{Infobox politician|name=Carlos Fermín|nationality=Venezuelan|political_orientation=Right wing nationalist}}

[[Carlos Fermín|Carlos José Fermín Márquez]] is the current director of the National Electoral Council (CNE) in Punta de Mata in Monagas, [[Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela|Venezuela]].<sup>[''citation needed'']</sup>

== Controversies ==
[[File:Fermin promoting PRN on Facebook.jpg|alt=Screenshot of Carlos Fermin on May 6, 2022 promoting on Facebook the Venezuelan right-wing nationalist organization PRN which he founded. The post was later deleted.|thumb|Screenshot of Carlos Fermín on May 6, 2022 promoting on Facebook the Venezuelan right-wing nationalist organization PRN which he founded. The post was later deleted.]]
In April 2022, Carlos Fermín alongside with [[Darío Fermín]] formed the movement Proyecto Reconstrucción Nacional (PRN), a [[Right-wing politics|right-wing]] party created with an eye to transform itself into the "only party of the right". He later deleted his posts promoting the PRN on [[Meta Platforms, Inc.|Facebook]] and [[Twitter]].<ref>{{Web citation|author=PROYECTO RECONSTRUCCION NACIONAL|newspaper=Twitter|title=Twitter|date=2022-05-09|url=https://twitter.com/PR_Nacional/status/1523655753202286592|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220509132750/https://twitter.com/PR_Nacional/status/1523655753202286592|archive-date=2022-05-09|retrieved=2023-09-08|quote=PRN Lanza su Manifiesto Nacional Por la Unidad https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=123963093613994&set=pcb.123963150280655}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|author=PROYECTO RECONSTRUCCION NACIONAL|newspaper=Twitter|title=Twitter|date=2022-05-09|url=https://twitter.com/PR_Nacional/status/1523656291952259072|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220509132949/https://twitter.com/PR_Nacional/status/1523656291952259072|archive-date=2022-05-09|retrieved=2023-09-08|quote=Solamente UNIDOS ayudaremos a constituir una alianza electoral sólida, eficiente, viable y realista.Una alianza que logre conectarse con los sentimientos y aspiraciones de la mayoría de los venezolanos; y conquistar su voto, para que a través de él ganemos las próximas elecciones}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|author=Carlos Fermín|newspaper=Twitter|title=Twitter|date=2022-04-07|url=https://twitter.com/fermincarlos33/status/1512093999879921668|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220407154529/https://twitter.com/fermincarlos33/status/1512093999879921668|archive-date=2022-04-07|retrieved=2023-09-08|quote=*Grupo de noticias*
*Actualizaciones e información en tiempo real*
*PRNacional*
https://chat.whatsapp.com/BpAjtfGvI0O2WqB5nUOGbP}}</ref><gallery mode="packed-overlay">
File:PRN Manifesto 1.jpg|Part 1 of the manifesto of the Venezuelan right-wing nationalist organization PRN founded by Carlos Fermin posted on Facebook on May 9, 2022 and later deleted.
File:PRN Manifesto 2.jpg|Part 2 of the manifesto of the Venezuelan right-wing nationalist organization PRN founded by Carlos Fermin posted on Facebook on May 9, 2022 and later deleted.
File:PRN Manifesto 3.jpg|Part 3 of the manifesto of the Venezuelan right-wing nationalist organization PRN founded by Carlos Fermin posted on Facebook on May 9, 2022 and later deleted.
</gallery>[[File:A letter from the supposed “grassroots” of the PCV.png|alt=A letter from the supposed “grassroots” of the PCV to Diosdado Cabello signed by the mercenaries Zoilo Arostegui, Carlos Fermin and Darío Fermín.|thumb|A letter from the supposed “grassroots” of the PCV to Diosdado Cabello signed by the mercenaries [[Zoilo Arostegui]], Carlos Fermín and [[Darío Fermín]].]]
He is also involved in the political persecution of the [[Communist Party of Venezuela]] (PCV) promoted by the [[United Socialist Party of Venezuela]] (PSUV), as [[:File:A letter from the supposed “grassroots” of the PCV.png|one of the signatories]] and the head of the handling over of the letter to [[Diosdado Cabello]] calling for the PSUV to intervene in the PCV, in which he pretended to be a grassroot member of the communist party. He later left the public limelight after being succesfully identified by the PCV.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Venezuela|newspaper=Solidnet|title=Plan to assault and intervene in the Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV)|date=2023-04|url=http://www.solidnet.org/.galleries/documents/Dossier-Evidence-Plan-to-Assault-the-PCV.pdf}}</ref>

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Zoilo Arostegui

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{{Infobox politician|name=Zoilo Arostegui|nationality=Venezuelan|political_party=United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV)}}
[[File:Zoilo Arostegui member of the PSUV.png|alt=Screenshot of Zoilo Arostegui's PSUV registration number, proving that he is a member of the party.|thumb|Screenshot of Zoilo Arostegui's PSUV registration number, proving that he is a member of the party.]]
[[Zoilo Arostegui|Zoilo Ramón Arostegui Orozco]] [[:File:Zoilo Arostegui member of the PSUV.png|is a member]] of the [[United Socialist Party of Venezuela]] (PSUV). He belongs to the work team of [[Raúl Brazón]], political coordinator of the regional structure of the PSUV in Monagas.<ref name=":0">{{Web citation|author=Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Venezuela|newspaper=Solidnet|title=Plan to assault and intervene in the Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV)|date=2023-04|url=http://www.solidnet.org/.galleries/documents/Dossier-Evidence-Plan-to-Assault-the-PCV.pdf}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Communist Party of Ireland|title=International News. PSUV holds fake congress to assault the Venezuelan Communist Party|date=2023-05-23|url=https://communistparty.ie/en/2023/05/international-news-psuv-holds-fake-congress-to-assault-the-venezuelan-communist-party/}}</ref>

== Controversies ==
Zoilo Arostegui had a lawsuit open against him (NP01-P-2007-004898) by the commission of physical violence against women. The file mysteriously disappeared.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Tribunal Segundo de control, audiencia y medidas con competencia en materia de Violencia contra la Mujer|newspaper=vLex Venezuela|title=Decisión de Tribunal Segundo de control, audiencia y medidas con competencia en materia de Violencia contra la Mujer de Monagas, de 13 de Septiembre de 2012|date=2012-09-13|url=https://vlexvenezuela.com/vid/ministerio-publico-hirbelis-zoilo-arostegui-398915346}}</ref>
[[File:A letter from the supposed “grassroots” of the PCV.png|alt=A letter from the supposed “grassroots” of the PCV to Diosdado Cabello signed by the mercenaries Zoilo Arostegui, Carlos Fermín and Darío Fermín.|thumb|A letter from the supposed “grassroots” of the PCV to [[Diosdado Cabello]] signed by the mercenaries Zoilo Arostegui, [[Carlos Fermín]] and [[Darío Fermín]].]]
He is also involved in the political persecution of the [[Communist Party of Venezuela]] (PCV) promoted by the PSUV, as [[:File:A letter from the supposed “grassroots” of the PCV.png|one of the signatories of the letter]] calling for the PSUV to intervene in the PCV, in which he pretended to be a grassroot member of the communist party.<ref name=":0" />

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Carlos Fermín

2023-09-09T02:23:40Z

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{{Infobox politician|name=Carlos Fermín|nationality=Venezuelan|political_orientation=Right wing nationalist}}

[[Carlos Fermín|Carlos José Fermin Márquez]] is the current director of the National Electoral Council (CNE) in Punta de Mata in Monagas, [[Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela|Venezuela]].<sup>[''citation needed'']</sup>

== Controversies ==
[[File:Fermin promoting PRN on Facebook.jpg|alt=Screenshot of Carlos Fermin on May 6, 2022 promoting on Facebook the Venezuelan right-wing nationalist organization PRN which he founded. The post was later deleted.|thumb|Screenshot of Carlos Fermín on May 6, 2022 promoting on Facebook the Venezuelan right-wing nationalist organization PRN which he founded. The post was later deleted.]]
In April 2022, Carlos Fermín alongside with [[Darío Fermín]] formed the movement Proyecto Reconstrucción Nacional (PRN), a [[Right-wing politics|right-wing]] party created with an eye to transform itself into the "only party of the right". He later deleted his posts promoting the PRN on [[Meta Platforms, Inc.|Facebook]] and [[Twitter]].<ref>{{Web citation|author=PROYECTO RECONSTRUCCION NACIONAL|newspaper=Twitter|title=Twitter|date=2022-05-09|url=https://twitter.com/PR_Nacional/status/1523655753202286592|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220509132750/https://twitter.com/PR_Nacional/status/1523655753202286592|archive-date=2022-05-09|retrieved=2023-09-08|quote=PRN Lanza su Manifiesto Nacional Por la Unidad https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=123963093613994&set=pcb.123963150280655}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|author=PROYECTO RECONSTRUCCION NACIONAL|newspaper=Twitter|title=Twitter|date=2022-05-09|url=https://twitter.com/PR_Nacional/status/1523656291952259072|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220509132949/https://twitter.com/PR_Nacional/status/1523656291952259072|archive-date=2022-05-09|retrieved=2023-09-08|quote=Solamente UNIDOS ayudaremos a constituir una alianza electoral sólida, eficiente, viable y realista.Una alianza que logre conectarse con los sentimientos y aspiraciones de la mayoría de los venezolanos; y conquistar su voto, para que a través de él ganemos las próximas elecciones}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|author=Carlos Fermín|newspaper=Twitter|title=Twitter|date=2022-04-07|url=https://twitter.com/fermincarlos33/status/1512093999879921668|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220407154529/https://twitter.com/fermincarlos33/status/1512093999879921668|archive-date=2022-04-07|retrieved=2023-09-08|quote=*Grupo de noticias*
*Actualizaciones e información en tiempo real*
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File:PRN Manifesto 1.jpg|Part 1 of the manifesto of the Venezuelan right-wing nationalist organization PRN founded by Carlos Fermin posted on Facebook on May 9, 2022 and later deleted.
File:PRN Manifesto 2.jpg|Part 2 of the manifesto of the Venezuelan right-wing nationalist organization PRN founded by Carlos Fermin posted on Facebook on May 9, 2022 and later deleted.
File:PRN Manifesto 3.jpg|Part 3 of the manifesto of the Venezuelan right-wing nationalist organization PRN founded by Carlos Fermin posted on Facebook on May 9, 2022 and later deleted.
</gallery>[[File:A letter from the supposed “grassroots” of the PCV.png|alt=A letter from the supposed “grassroots” of the PCV to Diosdado Cabello signed by the mercenaries Zoilo Arostegui, Carlos Fermin and Darío Fermín.|thumb|A letter from the supposed “grassroots” of the PCV to Diosdado Cabello signed by the mercenaries [[Zoilo Arostegui]], Carlos Fermín and [[Darío Fermín]].]]
He is also involved in the political persecution of the [[Communist Party of Venezuela]] (PCV) promoted by the [[United Socialist Party of Venezuela]] (PSUV), as [[:File:A letter from the supposed “grassroots” of the PCV.png|one of the signatories]] and the head of the handling over of the letter to [[Diosdado Cabello]] calling for the PSUV to intervene in the PCV, in which he pretended to be a grassroot member of the communist party. He later left the public limelight after being succesfully identified by the PCV.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Venezuela|newspaper=Solidnet|title=Plan to assault and intervene in the Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV)|date=2023-04|url=http://www.solidnet.org/.galleries/documents/Dossier-Evidence-Plan-to-Assault-the-PCV.pdf}}</ref>

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