The ongoing tidal wave of civil unrest in Venezuela is the result of a rigged election that President Joe Biden, through his top diplomat Secretary of State Antony Blinken, spent years pressuring the anti-socialist opposition of that country to accept — knowing well the socialist regime’s extensive history of rampant cheating.
Sunday’s was Maduro’s third fraudulent election win, after shams in 2013 and 2018, and at least the sixth sham nationwide election since he succeeded late socialist dictator Hugo Chávez. Prior elections had suffered dwindling turnout as a result of a combination of factors, most prominently the mass exodus of nearly eight million Venezuelans under socialism and the near-universal acceptance among Venezuelans that they no longer lived in a free society — and their refusal to play along with “election” charades.
This disillusion has existed for years. The 2018 presidential “election” had the lowest turnout in Venezuelan history, even by the regime’s count. In 2019, a poll found that 90 percent of Venezuelans supported a foreign military intervention to oust Maduro.
The “Bolivarian socialist” regime is first and foremost responsible for the decades of killings, rape as a weapon of repression, political incarceration, torture, and other atrocities it commits on a regular basis. But the mounting disillusion, the shards of shattered hope piercing through what little is left of the social fabric of Venezuela, and the outrage that Maduro could so nakedly do exactly what he has been doing for over a decade to stay in power lies at the feet of the White House.
President Joe Biden has implemented policies that actively empower the Maduro regime, increasing Maduro’s legitimacy and filling government coffers with ill-gotten oil profits. He deployed his top diplomat, Antony Blinken, to strongarm opposition leadership — already suffering a major credibility crisis after years of uselessness in the face of Maduro’s brutality — into accepting a deal with the devil. Blinken prioritized brokering the hosting of a “free and fair election” over any protocol that would actually ensure the elections were free and fair, resulting in the most popular politician in the country being banned from the ballot, replaced with 13 pictures of Maduro’s face.
This is the official ballot for Venezuela’s presidential elections on July 28th, it features 13 pictures of Maduro. pic.twitter.com/4IqQTkq1s1
— Crazy Ass Moments in LatAm Politics (@AssLatam) May 9, 2024
What Maduro tried to pass off as an election in the country on Sunday was, by all reasonable measures, a disgrace. Maduro hand-picked an assortment of leftist stooges to appear on the ballot, allowing only one true opposition candidate, the elderly ex-diplomat González, to compete. Opposition parties held a primary in October that former lawmaker María Corina Machado won in a landslide, but Maduro used the packed socialist Supreme Court to invalidate the primary and ban her from the ballot.
The week before the election, Maduro threatened a “bloodbath” if Venezuelans did not vote his way.
In the early hours of Monday, Maduro’s National Electoral Center (CNE) announced that the dictator had “won” 51 percent to 44 percent. Machado, supporting González, rapidly rejected the results and has since claimed to possess the verified vote tallies from local voting centers proving that González won in a landslide. Her claims have prompted waves of protests in which hundreds, and potentially thousands, of Venezuelans have taken the streets and toppled some of the many statues of Chávez littering the post-socialist landscape of the country.
Blinken went on a Latin America tour in summer 2022 intended to galvanize regional support for the orchestrating of a “free and fair” presidential election in Venezuela, despite the complete absence of conditions on the ground to make that possible. Opposition leaders revealed that Biden had sent representatives independently to them, as well, to convince them to participate in another fraud.
Mi regalo a Blinken. pic.twitter.com/BTRjuI3pF9
— Gustavo Petro (@petrogustavo) October 4, 2022
The Maduro regime immediately used the sanctions relief to increase its oil output with the help of the world’s premier state sponsor of terrorism, Iran, and negotiate joint oil projects with Iran and neighboring Syria.
By the end of the month, Maduro’s Supreme Court had invalidated the opposition primary, enforcing the ban of Machado from holding office. Two months later, Maduro declared the Barbados agreements “mortally wounded” and replaced them with Sunday’s election sham.
The Biden administration admitted defeat slowly, only restoring sanctions on PDVSA in April, long after the damage had been done.
As in the cases of the bloodthirsty Houthi terrorists of Yemen, their patrons in Tehran, the corrupt and apathetic Nigerian government, the colonialist Russian regime, and Hindu nationalist India, Biden implemented the longstanding Democrat foreign policy in Venezuela of emboldening and enriching evil political forces in the hopes that they could be flattered and enriched into kindness. Like the Yemenis, Iranians, Nigerians, Russians, Ukrainians, and Indian Christians before them, Venezuelans must now suffer the consequence of Democrats insisting on doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
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