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The people woke up. It’s been 25 years of robbing and destroying a people,
The key word to define the Venezuelan election is uncertainty,
pollster Luis Vicente León said The central theme is family, is the sense that this could be the last opportunity to reunite our families,
Machado told The Washington Post Today, with Edmundo, a transition could be a better source of stability, ... rather than Maduro telling them to go out to kill, to repress, to impose the state.”
We will all become citizen reporters,
Since the campaign began, we’ve seen a significant number of arbitrary detentions, forced disappearances, persecution of media and journalists.”
Establishing fair and free elections within an authoritarian regime is impossible,
said Jesús Castellanos, a consultant at Electoral Transparency, an NGO It feels like the first time in a long time that we’ve had a real hope,
said Thabata Molina, a Venezuelan journalist who has lived in Spain since 2021 and attended a pro-change rally in Madrid last week María Corina Machado has become a national sensation,
said Ignacio Ávalos, a director at the Venezuelan Electoral Observatory (VEO), an independent group To start with: fair elections assume that all parties have the opportunity to register their candidates,
We told our observers to attend every rally from all candidates … When they went to Machado’s, they all agreed that it’s a phenomenon that hadn’t been seen since Chávez,
We know why the government has made no effort to ensure that people could participate: most Venezuelans abroad had to leave due to the crisis or are victims of civil rights violations and would vote against Maduro,
We are on the side of democracy. The world is watching these elections."
Roberta Metsola, president of the European Parliament, spoke to Machado on Saturday, writing on X afterwards They will probably steal the election,
35-year-old opposition voter Marianella told AFP in Caracas, withholding her surname for fear of retribution against her children and small business Maduro has to learn: if you win, you stay. If you lose, you go."
The comments drew condemnation from leaders including Brazil's Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who said If they do not want Venezuela to become a bloodbath, a fratricidal civil war produced by the fascists, let us guarantee the greatest success, the greatest electoral victory of our people,
A restoration of proper democracy in Venezuela will be an important beacon regionally, but would also end the Chavista policies of cozying up to the world’s worst regimes like Russia, China and Iran, which will be welcomed by the entire Free World,
said Dr Alan Mendoza of the Henry Jackson Society think tank last night Much as Russia sees the United States encroaching on its own sphere of influence with Nato expansion in Eastern Europe, it sees the opportunity to do the exact same by fortifying partnerships with its historical and authoritarian allies in Latin America, namely Nicaragua, Cuba, and Venezuela,
said Henry Ziemer, an analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies As a president, Maduro has been a disaster and doesn't understand a lot of what it takes to run a modern society,
said David Smilde, a Venezuela expert at Tulane University who has studied the country for 30 years He was always very disciplined,
said Vladimir Villegas, who has known Maduro since high school and served as his deputy foreign minister until breaking with Chávez