US Contradicts Venezuela’s Electoral Council, Says Opposition Loser Actually the President

The US just announces the winners of the elections of foreign countries. They do it constantly.

Then they go around crying “oh why does everyone hate us, we are such good and moral people?”

The Guardian:

The US government has recognised Edmundo González Urrutia as the winner of Venezuela’s presidential election, discrediting the results announced by government-controlled electoral authorities who declared Nicolás Maduro the victor.

“Given the overwhelming evidence, it is clear to the United States and, most importantly, to the Venezuelan people that Edmundo González Urrutia won the most votes in Venezuela’s 28 July presidential election,” US secretary of state Antony Blinken said in a statement on Thursday night.

The country’s electoral council declared Maduro the winner of Sunday’s highly anticipated election, but the president’s main challenger, González, and opposition leader María Corina Machado have said they obtained more than two-thirds of the tally sheets that each electronic voting machine printed after polls closed.

They said the release of the data on those tallies would prove that Maduro lost.

On Monday, after Maduro was declared the winner, thousands of opposition supporters took to the streets. The government said it arrested hundreds of protesters and Venezuela-based human rights Organization Foro Penal said 11 people were killed. Dozens more were arrested the following day, including former a opposition candidate, Freddy Superlano.

Opposition leader Machado – who was barred from running for president – and González addressed a huge rally of their supporters in the capital, Caracas, on Tuesday, but they have not been seen in public since.

Later that day, the president of the National Assembly, Jorge Rodriguez, called for their arrest, calling them criminals and fascists.

In an op-ed published on Thursday in the Wall Street Journal, Machado said she was “hiding, fearing for my life, my freedom, and that of my fellow countrymen”. She reasserted that the opposition has physical evidence that Maduro lost the election and urged the international community to intervene.

There is zero chance Maduro lost.

Whatever you think about him, he’s really had a good run the last few years, as he’s been able to clear out all of the filth from his country, because the United States invited him to send all of that filth to America.

Crime rates have plummeted, there is more money for everything. Even with the ongoing sanctions, there has been such a drastic improvement in the country that there was just no way he could lose an election.

Even before that though, he was still popular as a personality.

But say the election is fake – who cares?

What does that have to do with America?

Remember all of that?