@lxo
https://www.persuasion.community/p/what-history-doesand-doesntteach
> The strength of the democratic tradition in Venezuela could be seen in last year’s presidential election. María Corina Machado, who was awarded this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, was disqualified on specious grounds, and replaced by Edmundo González as a stand-in. The democratic opposition placed observers in every polling place around the country, and made careful copies of the actual vote tabulations. These demonstrated that González won the election by over 30 percentage points; the regime nonetheless declared Maduro the winner and began to systematically jail leaders of the opposition still in the country.
https://www.persuasion.community/p/what-history-doesand-doesntteach
> The strength of the democratic tradition in Venezuela could be seen in last year’s presidential election. María Corina Machado, who was awarded this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, was disqualified on specious grounds, and replaced by Edmundo González as a stand-in. The democratic opposition placed observers in every polling place around the country, and made careful copies of the actual vote tabulations. These demonstrated that González won the election by over 30 percentage points; the regime nonetheless declared Maduro the winner and began to systematically jail leaders of the opposition still in the country.
this election was stolen before it even took place. that's the effect of illegal sanctions imposed on a country to force a regime change. even if the (distorted) popular vote was actually in favor of González (that's a big if, considering that US forces supported him), it was just as stolen as the laughable previous attempt to make Juán Guaidó president without a mandate. whoever gets US support there is automatically tainted.
that said, to the best of my knowledge, the electoral commission presented all the election documentation to a national court, and the court found the election results to be the official ones. of course those willing to discredit the Venezuelan institutions and believe in US propaganda will believe whatever they wish to believe, while those who dare disbelieve US propaganda in Latin America out of personal experience may come to very different conclusions.
to me, the fact that Machado got the Nobel Peace Prize does a lot more to discredit the Nobel Peace Prize (not that it had a lot of credit left, after previously awarding warmongers) than it does to elevate Machado. it's imperial influence and propaganda rotting it all to the core. now, you believe whatever you're gullible enough to believe.