Venezuela's Maduro declared winner in disputed vote

Update: I'm hearing some reports that as the votes were being tabulated, the opposition was in the lead. Then all of a sudden the results flipped just like in Honduras. I have heard people say that but I haven't seen that. It is possible but it's hearsay. We need judicial recounts of paper ballots not hearsay. The economic crisis in Venezuela was created by US sanctions. Lift the sanctions and end the crisis. Let them sell their oil and break the monopoly that is strangling us.

The BBC is reporting that "President Nicolás Maduro has won Venezuela's presidential election, according to partial results announced by the electoral council. The head of the National Electoral Council (CNE), Elvis Amoroso - who is a close ally of Mr Maduro - said that with 80% of ballots counted, President Maduro had 51% of the vote, compared to 44% for his main rival."

"The Venezuelan opposition dismissed the CNE's announcement as fraudulent and promised to challenge the result. It said its candidate, Edmundo González, had won with 70% of the votes and insisted he was the rightful president-elect." Now all of a sudden it's OK to make accusations of voter fraud. I think we all need to recognize that voter fraud does exist. The only way to preserve and protect the integrity of elections is by retaining paper ballots for judicial recounts. Electronic voting and mail in ballots are not it. We know that the CIA was directly involved with voter fraud in Honduras and the last US election was highly suspicious.

"The opposition said vote tallies it had received, as well as quick counts, showed Mr González had a lead of 40 percentage points over the incumbent." That doesn't really make sense. How is the opposition party going to get voting results before the public?

"Barred opposition leader Maria Corina Machado addressed on social media Venezuela’s armed forces calling on them to stand on the right side of history." That is bat sh*t crazy. When the people of Brazil said that ya'all said they were crazy Donald Trump supporters.

Was this election fraudulent? It's possible but I have no way of knowing. We don't solve the question with a military coup. We solve it with a judicial recount.

"Over the past 10 years, 7.8 million people have fled Venezuela because of the economic and political crisis into which the country was plunged under the Maduro Administration." That is true and many of those refuges have wrecked havoc in the welcoming countries bringing with them crime and entitlement. Yet what caused the economic crash?

"Mr Maduro blames US sanctions for his country's economic woes." That is entirely possible. However, it is very clear the Venezuelan economic crash was yet another CIA operation orchestrated so American corporation could win the rights to Venezuela's nationalized oil and it worked. Venezuela let American oil companies extract their oil and their economy is much better now. So the manufactured emergency was manufactured.

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