To me, the news today isn’t that Nicolas Maduro won the elections. That was already known ahead of time, and expecting a different result given the current electoral and political conditions was foolish. But the fact that they cut off internet access across Venezuela for about 45 minutes while polling stations were still open? That, in my opinion, is the real news of the day. Why did they suspend internet access? The argument from Arreaza, claiming it was «to prevent more hacks» is ridiculous and unacceptable. The ignorant chavistas and their international apologists will surely buy Arreaza’s story, but how can the chavista regime prevent hacks on the Twitter accounts of its high-ranking officials when hacking can be done from anywhere in the world with internet access? Twitter’s servers aren’t even in Venezuela, and cutting off internet access there won’t stop supposed hacks on Twitter accounts.
To put it more vividly, suspending internet access in Venezuela to prevent fraudulent access to Twitter accounts is like blocking the Caracas-La Guaira highway to stop entry via the M25 to London.
The team of the already twice-defeated Capriles should demand answers in this regard. That is, if they actually want to know what really happened yesterday in Venezuela’s presidential elections.