Venezuela votes: A Nation at a crossroads after 25 Years of Chavismo

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Venezuelans are heading to the polls today in a highly anticipated presidential election that could end a quarter-century of Chavismo. The nation faces a crucial decision between maintaining the current government under President Nicolás Maduro or opting for change led by opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez, supported by political leader Maria Corina Machado. Read full article

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bushpilot
This article paints a picture of a tense “democratic” election. It is tense, but nonetheless, it is democratic.

Makes everything sound legitimate, right?

Maduro is a dictator, he and his government do not hold their power by democratic means.

Look at how objective this sentence in the article sounds,

“after Machado, who won the opposition-organized primary in 2023 by a landslide, was disqualified in January.”

Mercopress makes no mention of who authored this article. Does that anonymous author, whose credentials are perfectly unknown, care to expand on why a candidate who won a primary by a landslide was disqualified?

No, the author brushes right past that question that begs to be answered.

From that disqualification and forward, this election has been rigged. It is not “democratic”.

The international community has never recognized Maduro as a legitimate leader. He and his government are a dictatorship and in power by fake elections that are blatantly not legitimate.

Does this author make objective mention of this perfect absence of democracy up until this election?

I suspect this article is a propaganda piece.

It makes everything about this election seems perfectly normal and the article's perfect lack of reference to abnormalities is suspicious.

So, it seems, this is a perfectly legitimate election, which you will see, Maduro conveniently won.

So Maduro, who has been a dictator up until this time, is now a perfectly legitimate leader.

Taken right out of the Russian handbook for fake democracy. Probably with their help.
Jul 28th, 2024 - 02:07 pm - Link - Report abuse +1
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Jeff12
Countries such as the US are real democracies? Not even close.
Jul 28th, 2024 - 04:05 pm - Link - Report abuse -1
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imoyaro
Let's not forget what happens after the “landslide” to the opponents...
Jul 28th, 2024 - 07:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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bushpilot
@Jeff12

Good point. Journalists in the U.S. are also propaganda mouthpieces.

As the U.S. is not even close to being a real democracy,

such as which countries then come close to being a real democracy?
Jul 28th, 2024 - 10:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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