They drag the head of a statue of Hugo Chávez through the streets of Venezuela during protests.

Venezuelan protesters who were demonstrating on Monday against the fraudulent results provided by the authorities of Nicolás Maduro's regime ended up toppling several statues of the Bolivarian leader Hugo Chávez and dragged the head of one of them through the streets tied to a motorcycle.

The images, shared on social media, show two protesters, riding a motorcycle, dragging the bronze head of a statue of Commander Chávez through the streets of a Venezuelan city that has not been identified.

"The head of the statue of Chávez was invited to take a walk through the areas that are protesting against the fraud," commented on his social media the Argentine journalist, writer, and international politics analyst, Ignacio Montes De Oca.

According to the AP agency, thousands of Venezuelans protested this Monday in Caracas to reject Maduro's re-election, a result that has been widely questioned both by the opposition and by several countries in the region.

In Petare, the largest and poorest neighborhood to the east of the capital, people began to march shouting slogans against Maduro. Young people with covered faces tore down posters from his campaign on poles and walls, while others chanted: "And it will fall, and it will fall, this government will fall!"

With shouts of "freedom" and other slogans rejecting the ruler, the protesters expressed their rejection of the results announced by the National Electoral Council (CNE), which officially declared Maduro as the winner.

In Coro, Falcón state, protesters gathered at the Plaza Hugo Chávez, an emblematic site for Chavismo, and toppled a statue about three meters tall, which had served as a landmark for political events in the region.

Similar scenes were seen in other parts of the Venezuelan geography, as feelings of frustration and indignation grew among the population due to the fraudulent maneuvering of Chavismo to maintain power against popular sovereignty.

It is not the first time that the figure of the populist leader Hugo Chávez becomes the target of Venezuelans' anger.

At the end of January 2019, during the protests that took place in Venezuela during the period of instability following the 2018 presidential elections, several protesters set fire to a statue of Hugo Chávez located in San Félix, in the state of Bolívar.

In April 2017, fury erupted among the inhabitants of Mariara in the Diego Ibarra municipality (Carabobo state), who set fire to a statue of the late former president of Venezuela and cursed the figure of Hugo Chávez.