Elections US reimposes oil sanctions on Venezuela as hopes for a fair presidential election fades
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more oil players on the market, the better. what the fuck are we doing here?
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Just shows how desperate the situation is.
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Its a humanitarian crisis of the magnitude of the Syrian civil war but with no war in a country that used to be the Saudi Arabia of Latin Amerca.
Socialism is basically worse than war, you can't simply ignore the constant decay and deterioration of such fucked up ideology.
Normalizing Maduro is enticing others to try and become him, and good luck trying to stop these people from making their way up to America.
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I don't think thats really the driver for US actions personally which have generally tended to limit production.
The driver is theres massive profits to be made by US oil companies running things as they have in the past.
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NYT opinion piece about how Biden doesn't have time for starving Venezuelans and this action will lead to the deaths of tens of thousands, basically showing he is an idiot with foreign policy
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BBC reporting the UN Rights Chief is against this move as well
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Opinion | Trump Doesn’t Have Time for Starving Venezuelans (Published 2019)
United States oil sanctions have only made the country’s people poorer and their plight more desperate.
BBC reporting the UN Rights Chief is against this move as well
US sanctions may worsen Venezuela suffering, says UN rights chief
UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet says fresh restrictions could hit the most vulnerable.
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Agree here.
The OPEC Nations are some of the most oppressive to the citizens on Earth.... Yet...
Why pick on Venezuela just because you don't like their Government?
Maduro is a piece of shit... But what, outside of an invasion will change him as being a dictator (he's not a president). The Saudi's are openly dictators? Yet, here we are.
Meh... Only Venezuelans themselves can change the situation there. And as long as the US plays the Moral Police, Maduro can blame the US for all their problems, which is at least partially correct.
Let him be... and maybe the people there will rise up and kick the asshole out. Maybe not.
It's definitely hypocritical. Which isn't surprising.
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Appropriate AV imo..
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Normalizing? He's not going anywhere. We need to stop meddling. North Korea isn't going anywhere. Russia isn't going anywhere. BRICS is going to kill the power of sanctions. It's time to stop fucking around and dictating on high whom can and cannot rule based on our standards.
We don't have to like the people we trade with but more good comes from getting that oil to market then not.
And with regards to making their way up to America. That's where we have say and power. We shouldn't be so bold in assuming everyone that's coming across the border is a dreamer with good intentions to work hard and prosper in America.
The world needs that oil. Now more than ever.
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- I really doubt that!
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- It's been the USA interest and of others democracies. USA has acted like this since 1946 or 47. A more economic stable Venezuela is beneficial to USA, Brazil and other contries.
Venezuela isnt on Brics! Even LUla that has a major crush on Maduro is against his intervention on elections!
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Every country not wanting to deal with sanctions will eventually be on BRICS.
That's the entire point of BRICS.
We need to stop dictating on high about who gets to rule where and how. That every fucking place should be like the west and democratic. That's not worked for the 80 years we've tried it and it's not gonna work now as we lose more of our world dominance due to the rise of China.
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Why not? just let commies take over the whole continent? just because America stops intervening, that doesn't means the rest of the world won't.
Venezuelan oil is reaching the markets, just not at the price the Venezuelan regime wants, just like with Russia their oil is being sold at discount.
Of course spending hundreds of billions to secure a long as border as the socialism cancer spreads out.
The oil is still being pumped and sold, plus its a fucking drop in an ocean.
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Because Venezuelan shitholery isn't just staying inside Venezuela, its spreading elsewhere.
Saudis didn't ran their country to the ground creating an humanitarian crisis right at America's doorstep.
Socialists can't function the way Saudi Arabia does simply because their population isn't as subservient to their ideal, they need to run the country to the ground in order to have their people eating on their hands and being compliant.
"Only Venezuelans can change"
BS, when one side has all the guns, and support from other shitholes like Cuba and Russia the side that has support from nobody will get squashed, then they will move to the next country.
The answer is nobody will rise because Venezuela has support from Cuba and Russia who help Venezuela keep people in check.
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Venezuela’s opposition backs unknown former diplomat in latest gambit to unseat Maduro
THE ASSOCIATED PRESSUpdated 3:31 PM BRT, April 20, 2024
MIAMI (AP) — Venezuela’s opposition is rallying behind an unknown former diplomat to challenge Nicolas Maduro in this summer’s presidential election, the latest gambit to unseat the self-declared socialist, whose lock on power seems all but assured.
On Friday night, all 10 parties in the chief opposition coalition announced they would back Edmundo González to be their candidate on the July ballot. Within hours, a catchy campaign jingle set to salsa music started circulating on social media declaring “Todo el mundo con Edmundo” — “The entire world with Edmundo.”
The surprise show of unity adds to mounting international pressure on Maduro and his allies to allow Venezuelans a free and fair vote to decide who they want to lead the oil-rich South American nation for the next six years. Polls show that if given half a chance, Venezuelans would overwhelmingly vote to boot Maduro from office.
However, numerous obstacles remain to González’ candidacy. Chief among them is a legal challenge, now with the Maduro-stacked Supreme Court, seeking to strike his party’s ticket from the ballot altogether.
González is the third presidential candidate selected by the Democratic Unity Platform in the the past month after former lawmaker Maria Corina Machado, who easily won an opposition primary last year, and her handpicked alternative were both banned from registering.
“We’re advancing Venezuelans,” Machado said on X, formerly known as Twitter, following the announcement of González’s candidacy.
Even among Venezuela’s opposition, few have heard of the 74-year-old former diplomat. González began his professional career as an aide to Venezuela’s ambassador in the U.S. and served as Caracas’ ambassador to Algeria. His last post was as Venezuela’s ambassador to Argentina during the first years of Hugo Chavez’s presidency. More recently, he’s worked as an international relations consultant, writing about recent political developments in Argentina as well as authoring a historical work on Venezuela’s foreign minister during World War II.
“He’s an accidental candidate,” said Luis Salamanca, a Venezuelan political analyst. “Legally, he’s an optimal candidate, without a blemish, but not in the eyes of the regime, which has assigned itself a role of selecting candidacies to the point that it led the opposition to this situation.”
The opposition bloc was allowed to provisionally register González on March 26 after the government came under a wave of criticism when opposition leaders said they were blocked from registering their candidate of choice. Saturday was the deadline to make his placeholder candidacy final or replace him with another individual.
Maduro’s administration has cracked down on the opposition during the run-up to the July 28 presidential election despite promises to pave the way to fair elections in exchange for sanctions relief. The Biden administration on Wednesday re-imposed crushing oil sanctions, criticizing Maduro’s moves. The leftist leaders of Colombia and Brazil also have expressed concern.
Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yvan Gil has called the criticism a “gross interference in matters that only concern Venezuelans.”
Maduro, a self-proclaimed socialist leader, officially launched his candidacy last month for a third term that would last until 2031.
The election is likely to have more than 10 candidates, but apart from the main opposition coalition, none are expected to pose a threat to Maduro’s power base.
https://apnews.com/article/venezuel...ion-gonzalez-39e057ae9e9bbb8cc7d73fb760efb2db
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Why would they do that? It was the ghost of Hugo Chavez that rigged the voting machines in 2020 remember??
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Fuck all the low life venezolanos reaching other countries with their filthy fat loud ugly asses ..
No country want them whinny entitled curly haired uber mothetfukers
Why dont they ubber eats cockroaches stay and fight for their own country, instead of spreading their filthy uneducated misery in the continent ?
No country want them whinny entitled curly haired uber mothetfukers
Why dont they ubber eats cockroaches stay and fight for their own country, instead of spreading their filthy uneducated misery in the continent ?
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