Venezuelan artist Nacho breaks silence and sends a strong message about the situation in his country.

The Venezuelan singer Nacho Mendoza broke the silence and asked the military forces of his country not to attack a people that only demands their rights and seeks the truth, following the results of the presidential elections.

In a video on the social network Instagram, the artist spoke out against police violence: "From the bottom of my heart, I ask, just like millions of Venezuelans, the uniformed bodies and citizen control of this country, not to attack the people."

And he continued: "Except for respecting the mandate of the indifferent, who abuse their power, a power that you yourselves have granted them, no influential voice has called for disturbances or confrontations, precisely because past experiences have taught us the responsibility that comes with calling for action."

He also stated that people should "mean more than ranks and insignias, than ideology and the hunger for power; we must not turn Venezuela into a country at war."

"Those who are in the street went out by their own decision, out of indignation, due to a lack of understanding of results that many of us consider, in our right to discern, fraudulent," he added.

"Lives started to be lost again, fathers and mothers crying for the deaths of their loved ones, of their children," he stated about the reported deaths.

The political climate in Venezuela has become more tense after the proclamation of Nicolás Maduro as the winner of the presidential elections, a decision strongly rejected by the opposition.

On July 29, the National Electoral Council, a Chavista authority, announced Maduro's reelection, a result that immediately triggered protests and rejection from the opposition and a significant portion of the population.

Meanwhile, opposition leader María Corina Machado spoke at a press conference and stated that the real winner was Edmundo González: "We have proof of the truth."

The opposition's count shows that Nicolás Maduro received 2,759,256 votes, while González obtained 6,275,182 votes, additionally winning in all the states that make up the South American nation.