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Venezuela’s capital is eerily calm after vote in which Maduro and opposition both claimed victory
AP News ^ | JULY 29, 2024 | JOSHUA GOODMAN and REGINA GARCIA CANO

Posted on 07/29/2024 7:41:19 AM PDT by Red Badger

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — An eerie calm enveloped Venezuela’s capital early Monday, a day after the country’s opposition and entrenched incumbent Nicolás Maduro both claimed victory in the presidential election, setting up a high-stakes standoff.

Several foreign governments, including the U.S. and European Union, held off recognizing the results of Sunday’s election, as officials delayed the release of detailed vote tallies after proclaiming Maduro the winner with 51%, to 44% for retired diplomat Edmundo González.

“Venezuelans and the entire world know what happened,” said González. While the opposition vowed it would defend its votes, González and his allies asked supporters to remain calm for now and called on the government to avoid stoking conflict.

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: edmundogonzalez; hugochavez; nicolasmaduro; venezuela
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Calm before they storm?......................
1 posted on 07/29/2024 7:41:19 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

The Army will decide.


2 posted on 07/29/2024 7:42:50 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Red Badger

well I’m not sure if they are done counting. The stories i read said they had counted 80% of the vote


3 posted on 07/29/2024 7:43:35 AM PDT by rottweiller_inc (inter canem et lupum)
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To: Red Badger

They’re in shock.


4 posted on 07/29/2024 7:44:15 AM PDT by Jane Long (The role of the GOP: to write sharply-worded letters as America becomes a communist hell-hole.)
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To: Jane Long

And, no insurrection either. 🤔


5 posted on 07/29/2024 7:45:32 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: Red Badger

The AP reporters sound disappointed. They were hoping for a bath of blood.


6 posted on 07/29/2024 7:48:07 AM PDT by Empire_of_Liberty
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To: Red Badger

Let me guess - did the regime shut down vote-counting sites because of water-pipe breaks?


7 posted on 07/29/2024 7:52:10 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: Red Badger

Why are we given asylum on a broad basis to people from a country whose president apparently has been reelected?


8 posted on 07/29/2024 7:52:32 AM PDT by Brian Griffin (Ask Congress to send middle class property/income tax cap amendments to the states.)
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To: Empire_of_Liberty
Sounds like this guy, González, is an election denier. Everyone knows there is never any election fraud. That is unless a conservative wins.
9 posted on 07/29/2024 7:52:51 AM PDT by MPJackal ("From my cold dead hands." )
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To: Red Badger

Venezuela was one of the world’s richest countries in the late 20th century, now it is a hellhole due to chavas/maduro.


10 posted on 07/29/2024 7:55:22 AM PDT by DallasBiff (Apology not accepted.la is not the sharpest knife in the drawer)
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Calm before they storm?......................

We shall see.

11 posted on 07/29/2024 7:58:47 AM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of Air Force pilot. Both bitten by the aviation bug)
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To: MPJackal

I think that the only way to remove Maduro is going to be with a firing squad.


12 posted on 07/29/2024 7:59:50 AM PDT by Empire_of_Liberty
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To: Red Badger
Only Leftists riot and burn down cities.

13 posted on 07/29/2024 8:00:28 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: PGR88

Well, Venezuela was an early adopter of Dominion vote “counting” machines so it probably does not matter.


14 posted on 07/29/2024 8:02:08 AM PDT by bobbo666 (baizuo)
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To: Brian Griffin

Maduro did the same thing Castro did in 1980’s Mariel Boatlift. He emptied out his prisons and psychiatric hospitals and sent them all to the USA...........


15 posted on 07/29/2024 8:02:32 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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Venezuela was one of the world’s richest countries in the late 20th century, now it is a hellhole due to chavas/maduro.

Well, and US sanctions.

16 posted on 07/29/2024 8:04:20 AM PDT by Alter Kaker (Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
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To: Red Badger

This is what the world wide left wants, world domination and power. They will usher in their savior to get their wish. Watch for it, it isn’t far off that a newbie, charismatic leader will sweep into power. He’ll sign a treaty for “peace and security” with Israel. The warning signs are all around us. They think because they were on the ‘front lines’ they will get a piece of the commie pie. WRONG! These ideological socialists will be the first to go:

“[T]he useful idiots, the leftists who are idealistically believing in the beauty of the Soviet socialist or Communist or whatever system, when they get disillusioned, they become the worst enemies. That’s why my KGB instructors specifically made the point: never bother with leftists. Forget about these political prostitutes. Aim higher. [...] They serve a purpose only at the stage of destabilization of a nation. For example, your leftists in the United States: all these professors and all these beautiful civil rights defenders. They are instrumental in the process of the subversion only to destabilize a nation. When their job is completed, they are not needed any more. They know too much. Some of them, when they get disillusioned, when they see that Marxist-Leninists come to power—obviously they get offended—they think that they will come to power. That will never happen, of course. They will be lined up against the wall and shot.”

― Yuri Bezmenov - KGB 1970s


17 posted on 07/29/2024 8:05:40 AM PDT by Indy Pendance (Jesus can't get here soon enough!)
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To: Red Badger

It looks that way.


18 posted on 07/29/2024 8:06:12 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: PGR88

Or power outages?!


19 posted on 07/29/2024 8:06:31 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: BitWielder1

That’s because they’re under the influence of satan.


20 posted on 07/29/2024 8:06:57 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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