US Invasion of Venezuela

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It has been a while since I stopped by and since I am Venezuelan, I should probably comment on this, based on what I have read from several people.

The media might disagree, but:
- There is no dictatorship in Venezuela. The constitution says you can run for election as many times as you want. Also, half way through any public official's term you can call up a referendum to see if they have done a good enough job and if they lose it, their term ends and new elections take place.

- The elections were not stolen. Venezuela's electoral system has always been praised, specially by the Carter centre in the US. The only time is has been question is the last time in 2024 which coincidentally it is the only time time has has not been involved as he was already dead.

- The "proof" that the elections were fraudulent have never been presented, other than the data from the "proof" has been extracted and a web page created by the same people that says there is fraud. Furthermore, you cannot examine the data, you just enter your ID and says who won in your "table". This proof is stored in a bank in Panama.

- A "table" is referred to the area of the election centre in which people vote. Each electoral centre have several "tables"/machines for people to cast their votes. They are called tables because before when the system was manual there were tables with boxes in them in which you would insert the ballot after you casted your vote.
- The system works as follows:
-- You need your ID to vote, and your fingerprint gets checked.
-- You go to the machine and cast your vote which gets recorded electronically.
-- The machine gives you a receipt with the vote you casted so you can check.
-- You deposit the receipt in a box before you leave
-- At the end of the day, each machine outputs the data of the number of votes per candidate.
-- The results from the machines get checked against the results from the receipts from the boxes. Witnesses from the different political parties are there to witness and certify the process.

- The party who says there is fraud has less than 10% of the total number of results. There are over 33k machines that are used all over the country, they Have less than 10% of those.

- Because of the noise about fraud, a full audit of the results were carried out. Out of the 10 candidates (9 are opposition) only 9 candidates/parties showed up for the audit. 1 party was the party that won and 8 other opposition candidates. The 9 candidates/parties certified that the results were correct and there was no fraud.

- There is no repression in Venezuela. The people that are called "political prisoners" are really politicians in prison for doing bad shit, like burning people alive and other actions that are crimes.

- Venezuela never stole anything from the United States. The oil industry was actually nationalised in the late 70s in Venezuela. The event the US refer to, is that the US companies got caught stealing resources. They were extracting oil but saying they were extracting Bitumen (which is a lot cheaper). They got audited and got caught. When they got caught, the government presented new terms to do business. The ones that did not accept the new terms left. There are still companies from that time extraction oil in Venezuela.

- The government keeps getting blamed for the decline of the economy, when Venezuela has been sanctioned to hell. We basically cannot even import the chemicals to process the oil, nor can sell our oil.

- Sanctions affected us hard because (as every oil country does for stupid reasons), they decide to just focus on oil and import most other things like food. This is what caused the shortages.

- Venezuela was already recovering even though the sanctions. We are now producing over 91% of the food we consume.

- Our GDP has recovered and we were growing. We are currently the fifth in South America and the Caribbean. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.KD.ZG?locations=ZJ&most_recent_value_desc=true

- People celebrating the invasion do not live in Venezuela. It equates to the Iranians that are celebrating outside Iran. In Venezuela no one was dancing in the streets. Of course there were people happy that Maduro was gone, but there were no public celebrations.

Anything else anyone wants to know?
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