Maduro loses regional support | Semafor
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Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is losing the support of friendly regional leaders as mounting evidence suggests he lost last month’s election.
  • Bell@lemmy.worldEnglish
    129·
    3 months ago

    Nonsense. He hasn’t lost support. The “election redo” plays right into Maduro’s hands. It gives him time to come up with better fraud.

    • The Hobbyist@lemmy.zipEnglish
      71·
      3 months ago

      Exactly. The Carter center already witnessed the previous election and was unable to determine Maduro as winner. The elections already happened, the people already voted. Why would a new election be excepted to yield any other result than what happened?

      • Gsus4English
        61·
        3 months ago

        Because the election wasn’t free or fair. There are lots of good candidates in prison and exile who were not allowed to run, MCM was barred too.

        I just have no faith that anyone can create the conditions for it now, Maduro would probably arrest anyone signing up to run at this point. What would Lula say then? In fact, nothing stops Maduro doing exacty what he did before: block observers, intimidate vote counters, obfuscate results.

        The ideal would be if the new president from the opposition oversaw the new free and fair elections :/

  • EvergreenGuru@lemmy.worldEnglish
    214·
    3 months ago

    Donald Trump bragged that they were trying to overthrow the government of Venezuela, to stage a regime change and take their oil. Part of regime change tactics is pretending that Venezuela’s elections are illegitimate. This is just another propaganda piece by the people who want to steal Venezuela’s oil.