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What the Media Won't Tell You About the Venezuelan Coup

Snider, Ted
http://original.antiwar.com/Ted_Snider/2019/02/03/what-the-media-wont-tell-you-about-the-venezuelan-coup/

Publisher:  Antiwar.com
Date Written:  04/02/2019
Year Published:  2019  
Resource Type:  Article

Calling Venezuela's election illegitimate is false and is also a familiar tactic for US interference in a country's government.

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The typical media account of the story holds that Juan Guaidó, who was elected president of the National Assembly in December, has been declared interim president on the grounds that Maduro is a dictator whose election was illegitimate. Each component of that sentence is false.

This claim has little to do with this election: it is the first song in the Venezuelan coup song book. It has been sung in every election since Hugo Chavez won power from the Venezuelan elite and returned it to the people.

When Maduro won his first election after the death of Chavez, monitors from around the world certified the election as fair. America was the only country in the world to back opposition claims of fraud and to refuse to recognize the Maduro government. The election was certified as fair by no less than 150 electoral monitors from around the world. Delegates came from the Union of South American Nations and the Carter Center. Carter had previously called Venezuela's election process "the best in the world." An American human rights lawyer and election observer reported that "What we found was a transparent, reliable, well-run and thoroughly audited electoral system."

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