Sputnik International
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was reelected to a third term in office in a showdown with united opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez last Sunday, taking 52% of the vote to Gonzalez’ 43%. The US and its allies decried the results, recognized the opposition leader and demanded negotiations for a “peaceful transition of power.”
Efforts by Washington and Brussels to diplomatically isolate President Nicolas Maduro have failed spectacularly after important members of the Organization of American States (OAS) and the European Union rejected efforts to condemn the Venezuelan election results.
In the OAS, major Latin American countries Brazil, Mexico and Colombia abstained from a resolution tabled Wednesday demanding that Caracas release detailed vote tallies and take other steps, including measures to ensure the security of the opposition. The three nations were joined in abstaining from the resolution or being absent from the vote by Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Grenada, Honduras, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas, Dominica, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and Trinidad and Tobago. With 11 OAS members abstaining and five members absent, the resolution failed to attain the required majority to pass.
Permanent Council chairman Ronald Sanders said a consensus could not be reached over a “controversial phrase,” without elaborating.
Across the Atlantic, Hungary blocked a similar proposed joint statement on behalf of the EU’s 27 member countries on purported “numerous flaws and irregularities” in Venezuela’s elections, forcing EU foreign policy czar Josep Borrell to independently issue a statement in the EU’s name.
Hungary’s intransigence is expected to complicate efforts by Brussels to use unanimity among the bloc to justify the leveling of potential new sanctions against Venezuela. Budapest did not explain its motivation for vetoing the EU resolution.
US Secretary of State congratulated Gonzalez for “winning” last Sunday’s vote, with Russia, China, Belarus, Serbia, Iran, Turkiye, Syria, Azerbaijan, North Korea, Vietnam, Madagascar, Namibia, Bolivia, Cuba, Nicaragua and others recognizing the results and congratulating President Maduro for his victory.
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“US Secretary of State congratulated Gonzalez for “winning” last Sunday’s vote, with Russia, China, Belarus, Serbia, Iran, Turkiye, Syria, Azerbaijan, North Korea, Vietnam, Madagascar, Namibia, Bolivia, Cuba, Nicaragua and others recognizing the results and congratulating President Maduro for his victory.”
As I have been saying, “The US is finished! It is no longer a superpower!” The world’s blinders are off! The rose-colored glasses are off and the rest of the world is now very much aware of this fake “democracy.” When a country tries to assassinate a former president to prevent him from seeking re-election after having stolen an election from him while allowing a senile vegetable to strut around pretending to be president when he should have been in a nursing home, the world was made aware that some nasty shenanigans is taking place behind the scenes of this fake ass democracy.
And now, we have another fake ass (s)election coming up since no one voted in the primaries for Kamala Harris to be the Democrat’s presidential contender, and yet these yahoos over here think they get to pick and choose another country’s president? Thankfully, the world is no longer paying any attention to this clown show going on over here, and about damn time, I would say!!!
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Who, again, is the US Secretary of State? What business is it of the US that Maduro won?
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Of course, it shouldn’t be any of our business here in the U.S., but the U.S. government likes to install its own puppets in other countries to kowtow to what this country has instore for another. They can’t have the folks electing their OWN leaders, now, can they? Especially if they do not fall in line and do what the U.S. tells them to do. But apparently, the world is tired of the mess that IS the U.S. and is having none of it. “Better late than never,” is all I can say.
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Hypothetically . . . I postulated to my sister and her husband last night that women are better able admit error than men. He said I was wrong. He said the director of the Secret Service apologized for the Trump shooting in her first sentence of her interrogation by Congress. He watched the whole thing that took all day. Then she resigned, after working 30 years at the Secret Service. Now the new guy is under attack, and rumors are flying that he is the one who masterminded the attempted assassination . . . Meanwhile, the US stewpot is brewing . . .
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I guess it’s all another form of “assymetric warfare.” As Shelby repeatedly points out, the US military is long past winning any real wars. All the can do at this point is fuck things up for as many other countries as it can.
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I remember saying quite a few years back that the US was floundering and sinking beneath the weight of it’s own debt and that they would take down everybody and everything on this planet rather than lose their status in the world.
I strongly suspect that even worse is to come from the US and I shall be proven correct.
You have to feel sorry for the people of the US who have been consistently lied to and deluded into believing those lies and probably have no idea where the crazies in charge are taking them.
Sad.
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Hubris. The trend of all humanity is one of taking presumed success and influence too far for long enough to collapse from within. I see it happening now in the US. A friend once said the average life span of any empire is 250 years. The US is toppling from its own rotten framework, like the mine tunnels, which collapse from rotten timbers and supports.
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It’s not just the US, mohandeer. It’s also happening here in New Zealand.
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I believe it’s happening everywhere, as structures vie with the chaos of the unknown future. This is reflected in mythology and religion. Our technology opens new avenues for exploration, but leaves old forms crumbling.
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We are seeing it in the UK also, furthermore, it’s likely that things can only get worse with Keir Starver(his latest nickname)at the helm. He is totally clueless and a backstabbing liar to boot.
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The UK has gone through lots of changes in the last few years. I was just reading a January, 2024 issue of the NYT, which told me David Cameron became Minister of Foreign Affairs the end of 2023. He has been travelling to Arab states, like Oman, Iran, and others.
Theresa May was PM before that, but she has disappeared. And King Charles’ family is making waves in US media, too. I can’t keep up with US Attention Grabbers, either.
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