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Comment by ErneX

4 days ago

Word, the regime needs to go. That’s what most outside don’t understand.

8 million of us had to flee the country.

There's no more proof that any Venezuelan election's results has been tampered with than with any US election. The state of Venezuela's state is sad, and so is the fact that millions of people have felt forced to flee the country due to economic uncertainty. But this is probably a mix of culture, ingrained corruption and US blockage for decades.

  • It’s completely unrelated, I find a bit insulting that even our own wrongdoings have to be blamed to the US. Not everything wrong that happens in the world is caused by the US, the regime has been very capable of their own wrongdoing and mismanagement through the past couple of decades. Just look up the UN reports of human right abuses committed by the regime, thousands killed and tortured.

  • > There's no more proof that any Venezuelan election's results has been tampered with than with any US election

    This is false (if by “proof” you mean “evidence” and not absolute certain knowledge).

    Here’s how Wikipedia describes the election results:

    US 2024 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_presidentia...

    > The Republican Party's ticket—Donald Trump, who served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021, and JD Vance, a U.S. senator from Ohio—defeated the Democratic Party's ticket—Kamala Harris, the incumbent U.S. vice president, and Tim Walz, the incumbent governor of Minnesota.

    US 2020 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_elections

    > The Democratic Party's nominee, former vice president Joe Biden, defeated incumbent Republican president Donald Trump in the presidential election.

    Venezuela 2024 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Venezuelan_presidential_e...

    > The election was contentious, with international monitors calling it neither free nor fair,[4] citing the incumbent Maduro administration's having controlled most institutions and repressed the political opposition before, during,[2][5] and after the election. Widely viewed as having won the election, former diplomat Edmundo González…