Posted on 09/12/2024 10:13:57 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia had no choice but to flee Venezuela for exile in Spain to save his own life amid a “brutal wave of repression” after disputed presidential elections, the leader of the opposition Maria Corina Machado said Sunday.
Gonzalez Urrutia, who the opposition says it can prove won July 28 elections in which strongman Nicolas Maduro claimed a widely questioned victory, arrived in Spain Sunday after a month in hiding in the crisis-hit South American country.
The choice for him to leave was made as “his life was in danger,” Machado said on X. Gonzalez Urrutia had replaced Machado on the ballot at the last minute after she herself was prevented from running by institutions loyal to Maduro. Venezuela’s regime-loyal CNE electoral authority declared Maduro the winner of the July 28 elections, but the opposition cried foul and much of the international community refused to accept the result without seeing a detailed vote breakdown, which has not been forthcoming.
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Killing/locking away opposition is the order of the day in Venezuela. I guess the oppo really did win the election, and in a big way.
Democrats only wish they could do the same thing here, right now. Biden/Harris regime have praised Venezuelan “democracy”.
Don't worry, they will. It's only a matter of time.
When Harris steals the election, Trump might need to flee the country. I wonder if he has thought of anywhere to go yet?
Didn’t he actually say that if you lost the election he would go to Venezuela?
I think that was hyperbole / sarcasm.
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