Massive protests have erupted across Venezuela. Repression has left more than two thousand people arrested, many of them forcibly disappeared, hundreds injured and 22 killed in a week. In hundreds of cities, in the poorest barrios, self-convened crowds have taken to the streets in response to the official announcement of Nicolás Maduro’s alleged electoral victory. The government-controlled National Electoral Council (CNE) hastily proclaimed Maduro without complying with the legal requirements to do so, and the military high command reaffirmed its loyalty. The deployment of paramilitary death s…