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By Arturo Rosales | Axis of Logic
Axis of Logic
Monday, May 21, 2018

According to The Guardian's Observer Editorial, Venezuela's election on May 20 was a "sham".

For more than 2 years, the Opposition and the US were calling for early elections based on the "fact" that 80% of Venezuela's people rejected Maduro. When the poll was called in February, they turned round and said that they did not want early elections after all - just after receiving electoral beatings in state and regional elections a few months earlier.

The main Opposition parties decided to boycott the elections and their representatives spent time asking for Trump to sanction the Opposition's own country, stopping imports of food and medicines. This still continues with over US$1.2 billion in goods and medicines frozen in Europe at the moment.

Henry Falcón defied the Opposition boycott and postulated himself as a candidate for President, despite having taken an electoral beating in the state elections in Lara, where he lost by a wide margin (30%) to Maduro's candidate.

There was nothing sham about this election. The Opposition called for abstention and stay at home and that is what happened - exactly as in the December 2015 parliamentary elections.

Why did people vote for Maduro and not stay at home? Simple - the mass of humble and poor Venezuelans know that it is the Opposition and the business community that is behind rampant inflation and attacks on the local currency. Exactly as happened in Nicaragua in 1989-90.

Maduro has made subsidized food available to many poor people that has, in effect, stopped hunger getting even worse. And people understand this.

Cry fraud all you, the US, and the defeated candidates want. But present evidence of fraud or vote buying. Or shut up.

Of the 24 elections held in Venezuela since 1998, the Opposition won 2 - one in 2007 and then again in 2015. Of the other 22 victories of chavismo, they always say it is fraud - with no evidence. It is just media noise to discredit their own country and play into the hands of the US.

Even Luis Emilio Rondón, who is a director of the Elections Board and supports the Opposition, stated that the conditions for these elections were exactly the same as in December 2015 when the Opposition won control of the parliament by a wide margin.

Draw your won conclusions.





Arturo Rosales writes from Caracas.


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