(np) Common Sense imho

Wed Jul 31 02:26:11 UTC 2024

International criticism of Maduro was growing on Tuesday.

"The worst form of repression, the most vile, is to prevent the people from
finding solutions through elections," the Organization of American States
<https://www.oas.org/es/centro_noticias/comunicado_prensa.asp?sCodigo=C-046/24>
 said in a statement criticizing the National Electoral Council, which is
loyal to the ruling party, for its delay in showing precinct-level results.

"The obligation of each institution in Venezuela should be to ensure
freedom, justice, and transparency in the electoral process. The people
should have the maximum guarantees of political freedom to be able to
express themselves at the polls, and to protect the rights of citizens to
be elected," the statement said.

The organization suggested a potential do-over election with a robust
international observer mission, and it called an urgent meeting of its
members.

Maduro took office in 2013, and during his presidency, more than seven
million Venezuelan citizens have fled the country, which has been mired in
poverty and violence. Many have gone to the U.S.-Mexico border and
attempted to cross
<https://www.cbsnews.com/news/immigration-venezuelan-arrivals-us-southern-border-biden-deportations/>
 into the U.S.

"What Venezuelan is going to brave the jungle? They kill you. They take
your money. They rape you. What woman, what person, what human being is
going to brave this without it being a necessity?" Blanca Sanchez, who fled
the country with her young boys and returned just to vote, hoping to help
bring about a change of government, told CBS News in Caracas.
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On Tue, Jul 30, 2024 at 10:21 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> AP: CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan government leaders ratcheted up
> their attacks on their opponents Tuesday, with some suggesting the
> opposition’s most influential leader and a presidential candidate be
> arrested, as foreign countries including key ally Brazil and the U.S.
> decried a lack of transparency over the disputed presidential election.
>
> A day after President Nicolás Maduro
> <https://apnews.com/article/maduro-venezuela-election-chavez-president-7ad0f6b14fa42224b8c2be2f09520d05>
>  was declared the winner by a National Electoral Council that is loyal to
> him and the ruling party, the attacks, which were aired on national
> television, followed the opposition’s surprise release of detailed voting
> data that it said shows that Edmundo González won by a landslide.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 30, 2024 at 10:20 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> REUTERS: Opposition party has 73% of the vote.......
>>
>> there are seven dead now....
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 30, 2024 at 8:19 PM Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
>>
>>> 44 % in a country of 29 million could make a large groundswell, just
>>> like Trump’s Maga groupies, but that doesn’t mean they won the election.
>>> The US state department is not the deciding or even reasonable arbiter of
>>> election results in Venezuela , and even they have not made a clear
>>> statement about election fraud, just vague “concerns”. 11 people are
>>> already dead, and you 2 cheer it on.
>>>
>>> > On Jul 30, 2024, at 5:00 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > There are many components at play, but I think the people who are now
>>> > fighting with their own blood, add the sheer numbers of their
>>> groundswell,
>>> > want one simple thing:
>>> >
>>> > HAVE DEMOCRACY
>>> > ENFORCE the will of the vote!
>>> >
>>> > On Tue, Jul 30, 2024 at 4:46 PM Michael Bailey <
>>> michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
>>> > wrote:
>>> >
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> https://www.gregpalast.com/how-to-stop-putins-war-windfall-by-ending-our-embargo-of-venezuelan-oil/
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> “This is a country which has a 2 million barrel a day OPEC allotment,
>>> and
>>> >> we’re getting almost none of it. And they have tremendous gas
>>> reserves. So,
>>> >> if the Germans are afraid that Putin will cut off their pipe, well,
>>> stop
>>> >> cutting off Venezuela’s pipe. Because it’s not only the United
>>> States, it’s
>>> >> the European Union and Britain, which are saying we won’t take
>>> Venezuelan
>>> >> oil.
>>> >>
>>> >> “And even more, we won’t let Venezuela pump the oil, because the
>>> embargo
>>> >> has stopped them from getting the parts and equipment that they need
>>> to
>>> >> keep their oil industry running, which is quite complex because it’s
>>> based
>>> >> on heavy oil, so it’s very difficult without the parts, the
>>> expertise, and
>>> >> the funding.
>>> >>
>>> >> “For example, the Koch Brothers have a refinery on the Gulf Coast of
>>> Texas.
>>> >> They were the number one customer of Venezuela. We took the oil that
>>> >> Venezuela sent us to the Koch Brothers’ refinery, and the US treasury
>>> >> seized all the money. When Venezuela sells oil, they can’t get the
>>> money,
>>> >> so, obviously, they’re not going to sell it to us or to Europe
>>> because they
>>> >> can’t get the money, so their oil production is extremely limited.
>>> >>
>>> >> “People are literally starving in Venezuela, and they don’t have
>>> medicine
>>> >> to fight COVID. It’s cruel. It’s horrible. If Putin were doing this in
>>> >> Ukraine, we’d be screaming and hollering, but yet we’re doing it to
>>> >> Venezuela. And who’s suffering from it? We are, because we’re
>>> knocking more
>>> >> than a million barrels a day out of the world market.
>>> >>
>>> >> “This is a leftover Trump disaster. Trump cutoff Venezuela, ordered
>>> the
>>> >> embargo, ordered the blockade. Why? Well, number one, they say
>>> Venezuela is
>>> >> not really a democratic nation. So, instead we’re getting our oil and
>>> gas
>>> >> from the democratic nation of Saudi Arabia? By the way, our biggest
>>> source
>>> >> of imports to the West is Russia. So the great democracies we’d
>>> rather get
>>> >> our gas from are Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Russia, and Kazakhstan? These
>>> are the
>>> >> great democracies we’re getting oil from instead of Venezuela?”
>>> >> --
>>> >> Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
>>> >>
>>> > --
>>> > Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
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>>>
>>