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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,
We hope and wish that everything will transpire in peace,
he said in a video posted on social media The United States is not going to prejudge the outcome. This is a choice for Venezuelans to make, but the Venezuelan people deserve an election that genuinely reflects their will, free from any manipulation,
We urge all parties to honor their commitments and to respect the democratic process,
If Maduro ... I will go,
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,
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 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 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,
While the election in Venezuela will hardly be free or fair, Venezuelans have their best chance in over a decade to elect their government,
Human Rights Watch Americas director Juanita Goebertus said this week, urging the international community to "have their (voters') back." 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 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