You simply cannot have open and free democracy if a superpower is meddling in your election.
I’m pretty sure the concern of Venezuela and Russia is not in having open and free democracy, but preventing it.
Any country that finds itself in opposition with the US is smart to limit or shut down US controlled IT infrastructure.
How convenient, then, that the US controlled IT infrastructure they target is the same IT infrastructure that dissidents use to communicate and that totalitarian governments can’t track. Just a coincidence, I’m sure.