Posted on 12/06/2020 1:44:48 PM PST by xomething
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela's congressional election on Sunday will almost certainly give President Nicolás Maduro control over the country's last major independent institution, but will do little to improve his image at home and abroad.
Maduro, who already has the loyalty of the courts, the military, prosecutors and other institutions, seeks to load the National Assembly with members of his United Socialist Party of Venezuela. Critics say he's guaranteed that by rigging the system to smother the last remnants of democracy in Venezuela.
An opposition coalition led by U.S.-backed politician Juan Guaidó is boycotting the vote. The European Union, the U.S. and several other nations have already declared the vote a sham.
“How's Maduro's fraud going?” Guaidó tweeted, showing pictures of an empty polling place. “Failed."
Despite Venezuela's political turmoil, voting took place with no apparent problems in Caracas, where polling places were operated by civilian militia members and armed soldiers alongside election workers.
A steady flow of voters walked up to ballot boxes at Andres Bello School in downtown Caracas. They checked their names on a wall outside, and inside showed identification cards before registering their votes on touchscreen machines, which printed a paper ballot they dropped into a box.
“I came to vote, and in less than half a second I have voted, quickly,” Caracas resident Rafael Espinoza said. “I’ll tell anyone who wants to do so that they can come down and vote in fractions of a second.”
The Supreme Court this year appointed a new elections commission, including three members who have been sanctioned by the U.S. and Canada, without participation of the opposition-led Congress, as the law requires.
The court also removed the leadership of three opposition parties, appointing new leaders the opposition accuses of conspiring to support Maduro...
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I don’t think he cares about his work mage abroad. I don’t think anybody who can kill off hundreds of thousands of their citizens is too self concerned about their image or reputation.
I don’t think he cares about his world mage abroad. I don’t think anybody who can kill off hundreds of thousands of their citizens is too self concerned about their image or reputation.
sounds a little too familiar
Sounds like our future under Chairman Kamao
Did Maduro learn this from the Democrats or are the Democrats learning from him?
I love how the MSN chose to use the word likely. It would be laughable, and I use that word loosely, if they hadn’t just done the same scam here in the U.S.
So now under the communism Venezuelans currently “enjoy” the common people have to eat pets and zoo animals. What will even more communism give them? The opportunity to eat roaches and snakes?
Hey, wait a minute...
“President” Biden congratulates President Maduro.
Wait. The US is calling out another countryâÂÂs election as a sham. Lmao. ThatâÂÂs a lot of balls especially in our own banana republic.
“Someone ought to go down there and put the commies out of business for good and help the people put on a real election.”
And then they can help us while they are at it.
Neither. Dominion built their original system to specifications provided by Hugo Chávez.
He never lost an election after that...
No doubt it was a late night dump of mail in ballots that put them over the top.
Seems pretty asanine for anyone from the US to complain about elections in other countries at this point. Frankly, if we are actually stupid enough to send “observers” anywhere after this sham, I hope that the officials in other countries send them packing at the airport.
Basically, without something radical here, we’ve lost our moral authority in this area for at least a generation.
Glad we don’t live in 3rd world hell holes. Oh wait. Sorry. It appears we do!
Sean Pinhead is happy.
Neither has Pelosi, nor Feinstien, or Schumer, etc....etc.
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