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GatoGordo

(2,412 posts)
Thu May 24, 2018, 09:01 AM May 2018

Voters thrown under the bus by Maduro. Maduro thrown under the bus by Aporrea

https://www.aporrea.org/contraloria/a263692.html

translated from Spanish

...But imagine that it would have been only the voters who owned the happy little carnesito: If the number of the CNE is true, although in these cases I assume that of "think badly and you will succeed": VOTES X MATURE: 6,157,185 X BONUS OF 10,000,000 = 61,571,850,000,000 or the modest figure of more than sixty-one trillion and stop counting because the shock is great and with this inorganic money is not good to play, the truth is that in the end because The CNE prevented the government from surrendering this amount, which is considerably greater than that for which the deputies of the Amazon were disqualified or suspended. That is, the happy bonus was just a misleading offer.

Backstory: In 2015, Venezuela offered its last legitimate election... PSUV was swept from power by a thin margin to gain a super-majority of votes for the MUD, a coalition of anti-Chavista leftists, socialists and progressives**. They could over-ride any Maduro dictate. However, the PSUV (Venezuelan socialist party formed by Chavez) complained that 3 Amazonas assembly members had "bribed" the voters in their area, and the TSJ (The Venezuelan Supreme Court, who Maduro immediately packed with Chavistas illegally) deemed that these three AN members couldn't be seated until they were cleared of the allegations. Three years later? NOTHING. The AN swore in the members who were elected, and the TSJ decided that any laws coming out of the AN were thus null.

Fast forward. Several elections have passed and EACH TIME the PSUV has literally BRIBED Venezuelans with all sorts of promises. They aren't even ashamed of it... they set up "Red Spots" outside of polling stations where Chavista faithful are given money, vouchers and food for their votes. And NOT A PEEP from the TSJ. Except now, they have run out of oil money to offer, so they are "promising" food (Pernil-Gate?) that never shows up, and threatening with job loss any government employee who doesn't vote. Hence the new "Carnet de la Patria... aka the Chavismo Loyalty Card.

**There is no "right wing" party or oligarchy in Venezuela.
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