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Maduro's grip tightens as Venezuelan socialists take control of once-defiant congress
FAUX News ^ | January 6, 2021 | Staff

Posted on 01/06/2021 5:38:46 AM PST by Red Badger

The legislative elections were boycotted by the opposition and denounced as a sham by the U.S.

CARACAS, Venezuela – Nicolás Maduro was set to extend his grip on power Tuesday as the ruling socialist party prepared to assume the leadership of Venezuela’s congress, the last institution in the country it didn’t already control.

Maduro’s allies swept legislative elections last month boycotted by the opposition and denounced as a sham by the U.S., the European Union and several other foreign governments. While the vote was marred by anemically low turnout, it nonetheless seemed to relegate into irrelevancy the U.S.-backed opposition led by 37-year-old lawmaker Juan Guaidó.

Exactly a year ago, Guaidó, in a blue suit and tie, tried to scale a spiked iron fence to get past a group of riot police blocking him from attending the parliament’s inaugural session, which according to the constitution must be held every year on Jan. 5.

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1 posted on 01/06/2021 5:38:46 AM PST by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

A model for America


2 posted on 01/06/2021 5:40:06 AM PST by Chauncey Gardiner
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To: Red Badger

I knew quite a few Venezuelans while going to University of Florida. They were from the better off families.
They were all very conservative having seen/known what socialism produces.


3 posted on 01/06/2021 5:43:09 AM PST by EEGator
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To: Chauncey Gardiner
"Harris's Grip Tightens as American Socialists Take Control of Once-defiant Congress"

Story at 11.

4 posted on 01/06/2021 5:44:19 AM PST by Psalm 73 ("You'll never hear surf music again" - J. Hendrix)
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Venezuela has the greatest oil reserves in the world.
Not too many dogs though...


5 posted on 01/06/2021 5:44:22 AM PST by EEGator
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To: Psalm 73

Our upcoming headlines will be friendly to Harris.
Some BS about a wise woman bringing our country together, and some BS about equality.


6 posted on 01/06/2021 5:46:03 AM PST by EEGator
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To: EEGator

One of my neighbors is Venezuelan..........................


7 posted on 01/06/2021 5:46:41 AM PST by Red Badger (TREASON is the REASON for the SLEAZIN'.................................)
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To: Red Badger

Emboldened by the recent Bolshevik successes in los Estados Unidos.


8 posted on 01/06/2021 5:47:19 AM PST by Savage Beast (Donald Trump: An honest man in a world gone mad. God save us! May truth prevail!)
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To: Red Badger

Yet another tyrant chomping at the bit over Joe Biden’s inauguration.


9 posted on 01/06/2021 5:48:10 AM PST by LuxAerterna
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To: Red Badger

All the ones I knew were/are chemical engineers.
A couple pretty, and smart, ladies too.


10 posted on 01/06/2021 5:48:23 AM PST by EEGator
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To: Chauncey Gardiner

The UniParty will never ever loosen its grasp again


11 posted on 01/06/2021 5:50:57 AM PST by mo ("If you understand, no explanation is needed; if you don't understand, no explanation is possible)
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To: Red Badger

This could be us in two weeks. Or this afternoon.


12 posted on 01/06/2021 5:51:43 AM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Red Badger

Communism today.
Communism tomorrow.
Communism forever.

Let the real #resistance begin.


13 posted on 01/06/2021 5:53:18 AM PST by Skywise
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To: Red Badger

Our future.

Those who think 2022 or 2024 are another chance to right things are delusional.

The left will never allow it.


14 posted on 01/06/2021 5:54:35 AM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith.....)
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To: EEGator

Still waiting for her tale of how the Chicago dem convention of ‘68 laid the ground work for her future political ambitions. Oh and malcolm x was her godfather. The lying ‘comawa’ has it seen and done it all when it comes down to the fight for fweedumb. Just ask the brothers she put in jail in caulifourneeuh.


15 posted on 01/06/2021 5:55:56 AM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Red Badger

Our future. My dog won’t like it.


16 posted on 01/06/2021 5:59:27 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: Red Badger

HarrisXiden’s grip tightens as American socialists take control of once-defiant congress


17 posted on 01/06/2021 6:11:57 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Chauncey Gardiner

They’ve been using Dominion Voting Systems for a long time. DVS just cemented Maduro’s power just like DVS cemented the dems’ power here.

and we thought it would be Terminator style machines that would conquer us, not some boring counting machine. Beaten by unarmed counting machines created by pasty white soy boys and vote counting facilities run by welfare people that probably don’t even have a high school diploma.

What a way to go down.


18 posted on 01/06/2021 6:18:51 AM PST by Pollard (Bunch of curmudgeons)
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To: Red Badger

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19 posted on 01/06/2021 6:50:15 AM PST by sauropod ("No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot." - Mark Twain)
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To: Red Badger

Those Dominion voting machines are quite handy, aren’t they?


20 posted on 01/06/2021 7:05:14 AM PST by norwaypinesavage (The stone age didn't end because we ran out of stones.)
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