Lies and Damned Lies About Venezuela's Presidential Elections

[Judi Lynn]

1. Maria Machado, who has always received money from the US Congress for her "Democratic" organization,

started visiting George W. Bush, taxpayers' expense, during his pResidency.

From the article above:

[excerptCurrently, of the ten candidates running for president, nine are leaders of opposition parties. Nicolás Maduro, representing the Chavismo forces, is standing for re-election and the polls show he has a huge advantage (55.6%) over all other candidates.[5] The extremist section of the opposition is led by a well-known agent of Washington, Maria Corina Machado, a scion of two prominent families of the wealthy, privileged elite. In 2014 she was found guilty of malfeasance by the Venezuelan judiciary and disqualified from running for public office. Her disqualification was recently upheld by the Supreme Court.[6] Machado has been a consistent supporter of the economic sanctions against Venezuela and has repeatedly called for US foreign military intervention against her own country to oust President Maduro. Astonishingly, she has even written to Israeli leader Netanyahu asking him to militarily intervene in Venezuela to overthrow Maduro. [7] To say that she is one of the most despised figures of Venezuelan politics is an understatement. A full 72% of Venezuelans believe that she, and all the opposition leaders who have asked for US military intervention, should be indicted.[8]

Although Machado cannot be a candidate, she is running the campaign of one Edmundo González, a stand-in for her, and she campaigns as if she were the candidate. Machado and her ilk in the past presidential election (2018) advocated that people abstain from voting and was adamantly supportive of the violent street riots of 2014 and 2017 that caused many deaths, injuries and damages to property. One young man was burned alive because they considered his dark skin proof he was a Chavista. Many street dogs were also burnt alive for the fun of it, and thousands of urban trees were destroyed. Venezuela had never in its entire modern political life witnessed virulence. For his part, Gonzalez was recruited by the CIA and, as a member of the Venezuelan embassy in El Salvador, participated in the financing and logistics of death squads that tormented that nation during the 1980s.[9] Both Machado and González have blood-stained hands.