Nicolas Maduro Did Not Steal the Venezuelan Election

[Coyotl]

Nicolas Maduro Did Not Steal the Venezuelan Election
http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/nicolas-maduro-did-not-steal-the-venezuelan-election

The guy in the cheap brown windbreaker walking up the dirty tenement steps to my New York office looked like a bus driver.

Nicolas Maduro, elected President of Venezuela last Sunday, did indeed drive a bus, then led the drivers’ union, then drove Chávez’s laws through the National Assembly as Venezuela’s National Assembly chief.

And this week, the US State Department is refusing to accept the result, suggesting Maduro hijacked the vote count. But did he?

Maduro came to me that day in 2004 on a quiet mission, sent by President Hugo Chávez ........

[Dawson Leery]

1. k/r

[madokie]

2. At some point they'll have to accept this

I say it is good for Venezuela that this man is their next President.

[Coyotl]

4. There is a secret recording of a phone conversation where they admit defeat

and plan to continue the ruse in order to disrupt civil peace!

[dipsydoodle]

3. K&R

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[Taverner]

5. He didn't but it was neck and neck

[Coyotl]

6. Venezuela auditing 100% of election results

Even though Maduro won by a very handy margin: "Maduro secured 50.8% of votes in Sunday's election, while Capriles won 49%, election officials said earlier this week." http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/18/world/americas/venezuela-elections

Ironically, Bush vs. Kerry was 50.7% to 48.3%. Maduro got a higher percent than Bush.

The CNN coverage is very biased, it seems to me.

Isn't it also ironic that Venezuela reformed their electoral system to make it audit able because of US meddling in their elections?

[byeya]

7. The longer Obama is all pouty over Venezuela, the farther most of South America drifts from

the USA span of control.
This is a good them for them - us too I think.

[arikara]

8. Harper won in Canada by 37%

I don't recall the US state dept questioning that.

[noiretextatique]

9. it's really disheartening

to see the state department behaving like a spoiled child who didn't get his way.

[byeya]

10. If Maduro had won 75% the State Dept would say Venezuela was another Soviet Union.