Pence to call on Venezuela to suspend elections: report

[brooklynite]

Source: The Hill

Vice President Pence will use a keynote speech at the Organization of American States (OAS) to call on Venezuela to suspend its upcoming elections, according to Bloomberg.

Venezuela is planning to hold its elections on May 20. President Nicolás Maduro is running for reelection for a second six-year term.

Pence will reportedly call for a postponement of the vote, originally scheduled for April 22, until conditions are better for a free and fair election.

The European Union is also calling for postponement of the elections.

Read more: http://thehill.com/latino/386526-pence-to-call-on-venezuela-to-suspend-elections-report

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Sounds like a win for Maduro either way.

[CatMor]

1. I wish Pence would call for free and fair elections here in the US

[paulkienitz]

2. to them, no election where the left gets more votes is free or fair

[bucolic_frolic]

3. The whole point being that Trump and Pence

can call for 'fair' elections ... note how often Trump uses that term when anything goes against him ... and that is is appropriate for them to be able to schedule and cancel elections, even in a foreign country. Now that's out of the way ... will they do it here?

[Stonepounder]

8. I've been suggesting that Trump might try and cancel our 2020 elections

for some made-up reason. Everybody has laughed at the idea. I think it is very real. Maybe a war? A now 9/11? Maybe a 'national emergency'? Martial Law due to filthy illegal immigrants? How about, Oh My GOD! Russia is trying to hack our elections and we need to verify the validity of the election before we can allow it?

And so it begins.

[Dopers_Greed]

4. Pretty ironic

Considering Pence was elected by a non-free/fair election

[COLGATE4]

5. Maduro will tell him

to wipe his ass with his "free and fair elections"

[RestoreAmerica2020]

6. His hypocrisy is stunning!

hy·poc·ri·sy
həˈpäkrəsē/Submit
noun
the practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one's own behavior does not conform; pretense.
synonyms: dissimulation, false virtue, cant, posturing, affectation, speciousness, empty talk, insincerity, falseness, deceit, dishonesty, mendacity, pretense, duplicity; More

[cab67]

7. When, exactly, will conditions in Venezuela be more amenable to free and fair elections?

I've been to Venezuela. I love the country, and I have many good friends there. That being said, the country is a political wreck. Hugo Chavez did a real number on the place, and Maduro hasn't improved the situation. I can't see anything short of a full-blown revolution changing things, and I'm not sure that would make things better.

[xxqqqzme]

9. We're returning to the

policy of claiming ownership of South America.


And Why not? It worked so well last century.

[7962]

11. Yes, much better to leave millions to starve than to offer any other options.

You're right. The US shouldn't "claim ownership" of any SA country. Nor should it contribute anything to the oppressive tyrants who run any of those countries. Certainly no business will ever set foot in the country because they know they'll either be seized, or never paid for their services.
The Venezuelans must rise up on their own. And then the US can recognize an actual functioning govt. FOR the people.

[7962]

10. Conditions will NEVER be better for an election. Maduro wont allow it. Because "Revolution"! FAIL.

Its been a failure for nearly 20 yrs now, breaking a country that had the wealth of many nations combined. Such is the fallacy of the Chavista losers

[dflprincess]

12. Reminds me of when Bush said we'd normalize relations with Cuba when they had free & fair elections

and Castro's official reply to this was "You first."