Published on
17/07/2026 - 13:48 GMT+2
The declassification ordered by the White House has brought to light something Venezuela's opposition had been repeating for years without official evidence: the Bolivarian regime possessed the technical infrastructure needed to alter an election result.
The documents refer back to the 2012 elections, when an already ill Hugo Chávez defeated Henrique Capriles after a year of runaway public spending, put at 70 billion dollars.
According to the CIA, three bodies- the General Directorate of Military Counterintelligence, the Bolivarian Intelligence Service and the National Electoral Council – were able to manipulate results using pre-programmed voting machines, with the capacity to shift at least 1.5 million votes in areas with the strongest pro-Chávez support.
