Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado tried to reassure supporters Monday that her coalition still hopes to gain control of the presidency despite the departure into exile of their candidate Edmundo González Urrutia.
Machado’s group maintains that it has evidence that González won the July 28 presidential election by a wide margin against Venezuela’s authoritarian incumbent president, Nicolás Maduro, despite his claim to have won.
Machado told an online meeting Monday of opposition leaders, reporters and others that her group still hopes to see Maduro leave office in January, even if for voters those hopes seem increasingly tenuous since González’s decision to flee into exile to Spain over the weekend.
It’s kind of shocking how the rest of the world seems to be just going with the flow of the guy who very clearly stole the election and is now using authoritarian powers to suppress dissent.
Can’t we all at least not acknowledge Maduro as president? Have no diplomatic or economic ties with Venezuela until they respect the results of elections?
Have no diplomatic or economic ties with Venezuela
What can be done more? They are already under embargo, the economy is fucked, the average wage is almost a tenth of what people get in neighboring countries and 20% of the population fled the country
Maduro is going to “win” elections until he dies, he can do whatever he wants. He even moved Christmas to October 1st this year, to show the population that he has absolute power
They’re not going along with it, they’ve been pushing for the opposition since before the election.
