The key word to define the Venezuelan election is uncertainty,
The people woke up. It’s been 25 years of robbing and destroying a people,
The central theme is family, is the sense that this could be the last opportunity to reunite our families,
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,
It feels like the first time in a long time that we’ve had a real hope,
María Corina Machado has become a national sensation,
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."
They will probably steal the election,
Maduro has to learn: if you win, you stay. If you lose, you go."
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,
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,
As a president, Maduro has been a disaster and doesn't understand a lot of what it takes to run a modern society,
He was always very disciplined,
A phrase that has been said to me repeatedly is ‘You are my last hope,