Maduro says Venezuela has had a dictatorship for 14 years

[Bacchus4.0]

http://noticiasvenezuela.org/2013/04/a-nicolas-maduro-se-le-salio-que-esto-es-una-dictadura-video/

first time he´s ever told the truth

[ocpagu]

1. It's quite clear he was being ironic.

n/t

[Bacchus4.0]

2. and truthful n-t

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[Warren Stupidity]

3. its so sad to have lost yet another fair and open election

it is almost as if the people of venezuela just don't want to turn their country back over to the elites and their neocon/neolib allies again.

[rdharma]

4. And President Obama makes jokes about being born in a foreign country! eom

[Bacchus4.0]

5. the difference is President Obama is a progressive interested in helping people advance

Maduro is a pathological liar interested in retaining power and enriching himself. He adheres to no progressive positions that I can see. so you can have the imbecile malandro Maduro, and I´ll take President Obama.

[Bacchus4.0]

7. Obama is a progressive. Maduro is NOT

Obama is a Democrat. Maduro is NOT. you are in the wrong place bobo.

[frylock]

8. yeh whatever you say, n00b

[Marksman_91]

9. Why so offensive?

Don't you know violence and insults are signs of a lack of good argument points?

[Bacchus4.0]

12. you don´t say much at all

Obama is way ahead of chavistas on social isssues. I can´t even believe I would have to say that. chavistas simply want to implement a failed marxist economic system. thats the only thing leftist about them. On social matters, chavistas are worse than republicans.

[Peace Patriot]

10. Your guy lost, Bacchus...

...in what Jimmy Carter recently called "the best election system in the world."

So why don't you just give it up, hm? Saying the winner never spoke truth in his life? Taking his irony about the corporate media "dictator" slander as a cue to attack him, again?

It's clear that you hate him venomously. It was clear that you hated Chavez venomously. It's clear that you don't have much respect for Venezuelans, as a whole, either. The majority has been electing leftists for the last decade and a half. They recently gave a good drubbing to the rightwing governors, as well as re-electing Chavez as president, then electing his VP as president. Get over it! Take your venom elsewhere. If you don't have anything constructive to say, go where they like short posts, insulting posts and venomous posts.

Your post is a lot like the opposition National Assembly members in Venezuela, who arrived in a pugilistic mood today and started fistfights on the Assembly floor. That's the tenor of your post and comments. You'd like to punch Maduro's face in. We don't need that here. This is not--or shouldn't be--a boxing ring or a back alley.

[Peace Patriot]

11. Here's some thoughtful material for this thread...

Honor Venezuela's Election; Maduro Won Fair and Square

By DANIEL KOVALIK - POST GAZETTE, April 30th 2013

I just returned from Venezuela where I was one of 170 international election observers from around the world, including India, Brazil, Great Britain, Argentina, South Korea and France. Among the observers were two former presidents (of Guatemala and the Dominican Republic), judges, lawyers and high-ranking officials of national electoral councils.

What we found was a transparent, reliable, well-run and thoroughly audited electoral system.

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An election observer and former president of Guatemala, Alvaro Colom, called the vote "secure" and easily verifiable. All told, the experience of this year's observers aligns with that of former President Jimmy Carter, who observed last year's elections and called Venezuela's electoral system "the best in the world."

... With an impressive 79 percent of registered voters going to the polls, Nicolas Maduro, heir to Hugo Chavez, won by more than 260,000 votes -- 1.8 percent -- over opposition leader Henrique Capriles.

While this was certainly a close race, 260,000 votes is a comfortable margin. Recall that John F. Kennedy beat Richard Nixon in 1960 by only 0.1 percent. George W. Bush became president in 2000 after losing the popular vote to Al Gore but winning by only a few hundred votes in Florida -- where a recount was blocked by the U.S. Supreme Court.

In none of these U.S. elections did any other nation insist upon a recount or hesitate in recognizing the declared winner....

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The United States' refusal to recognize the April 14 Venezuelan election is ... absurd.... Ironically, President Barack Obama won re-election last year by a mere 0.7 percent of votes cast.

The U.S. position is all the more ridiculous considering that it helped engineer and quickly recognized a coup government in Paraguay last year and approved the results of a 2009 election in Honduras even though the previous president, ousted by the military, was not allowed to compete.

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Source: Pittsburgh Post Gazette
http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/opinion/perspectives/honor-venezuelas-election-maduro-won-fair-and-square-685611/